A total of 792 changes landed in WebKit’s repository last week. Support for IndexedDB in Web Inspector’s Storage Panel is now available by default. Line-endings won’t be reset anymore after editing a file, heap snapshot parsing has been significantly sped up and the shortcut for going to the previous panel has been changed. Development on supporting snippets [...]
I thought this was a joke, but it appears GM really is using a “three-dimensional visualization system” called — wait …
“American whale oil lit the world. It was used in the production of soap, textiles, leather, paints, and varnishes, and it lubricated the tools and machines that drove the Industrial Revolution. The baleen cut from the mouths of whales shaped the cours…
Three experts on the intersections of technology and culture, including HASTAC Executive Board member Anne Balsamo, will visit the University of Iowa April 2 and 3 to talk about imagination, collaboration, and innovation. read more
Briefly, I pushed out an experimental version of track // games to track tropics in the blogosphere relating to video games. As with track // microsoft it uses gathers posts from blogs, clusters them and uses an attention metric based…
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For more details on calendar pages or the Hours of Joanna of Castile, please see the entry for January 2012. Calendar pages for April, Hours of Joanna of Castile, Bruges, between 1496 and 1506, Additional 18852, ff. 4v-5 This opening for April contains two separate but connected scenes that celebrate the arrival of spring. On the left are some shepherds with their flock; one is at work shearing while another guides the sheep into a paddock (and we would welcome ideas about what the man in the centre is doing). At the top of the right hand folio is a…
Information graphics are meant to carry meaning, so that readers can learn something about data, facts, or processes. But what does it mean to inform? And how does the goal of informing in information graphics differ from analytical visualization?
A key idea in visualization is that of externalized memory or externalized thinking: Using pen and paper to multiply large numbers is easier than doing the same thing entirely in one’s mind because we don’t have to remember all the intermediate results and can thus focus on the actual operations on the numbers. Visualization serves a similar purpose, and goes beyond it by giving us access to amounts of data we could not possibly memorize.
During exploratory and analytical visualization, we query this external representation by looking at it, changing settings, filtering, pointing, etc. What we do not typically need to do is remember any of this, because we can just get it shown to us again very quickly and easily. We have externalized the data storage and so can focus on looking for patterns and trends, coming up with new hypotheses, drawing conclusions, etc.
When it comes to presentation, however, the situation is very different. The point of presentation is to give the person you are presenting to something he or she will remember. There is no point in presenting data or facts if the audience does not take at least some of them away from the presentation. The place we take information with us is our memory.
To inform [...]
Hello, HASTAC. My name is Adam Liszkiewicz, and I’m a HASTAC Scholar. And by “HASTAC Scholar,” of course, I mean “Lurker.”
It wasn’t supposed to be this way.
Scholar Class 2012
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We are members of a class at University of Maryland, called Networked Intelligence (netintel.ahnjune.com). This semester we are wrestling with ideas about how networked technologies and our information-rich worlds change the way we learn, live, and col…
By Adeline Koh
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The question ’what is the digital humanities’ is hardly new; nor is discussion of the various epistemologies of which the digital humanities are made. However, the relationship which archaeology has with the digital humanities – whatever the epistemology of either – has been curiously lacking. Perhaps this is because archaeology has such strong and independent digital traditions, and such a set [...]
