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Princeton history graduate student Benjamin Schmidt explores changes in language through TV anachronisms. In Schmidt’s most recent analysis, he examines …
FatFonts [fatfonts.org] is a novel numeric typeface for data visualization purposes. The design of FatFonts is based on Arabic numerals, but the amount of ink (i.e. dark pixels) used for each digit is proportional to its quantitative value. This font …
Wednesday saw the official launch of the UCL Domain Names Project with a press release and a website.
In March 2009, Dr Anna Clark, then Director of Business Partnerships, first mentioned ICANN’s intention to internationalise the…
Wednesday saw the official launch of the UCL Domain Names Project with a press release and a website.
In March 2009, Dr Anna Clark, then Director of Business Partnerships, first mentioned ICANN’s intention to internationalise the…
Music visualization with stop motion board games. You can’t go wrong.
[via @jcukier]
Detail of miniatures from the prefatory cycle of the Nativity: in the upper register, the Virgin suckling the Christ Child and Joseph adjusting her pillow, and in the lower register, the Annunciation to the Shepherds, from a Psalter, England (Oxford), 1st quarter of the 13th century, before 1220, Royal 1 D. x, f. 1v We would like to thank everyone who answered our call for ideas about which Royal manuscripts should be included in our upcoming digitisation programme, sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. A group of manuscripts was initially selected by our project group (see the list…
San Diego-based start-up Easel.ly [easel.ly] is offering a beta service that allows lay people to design and implement their own “infographics” via an online editor. The user-based customization of infographics seems to be the next phase after the aut…
Jerzy Wieczorek, a statistician with the U.S. Census Bureau, explains why the American Community Survey is worthwhile. Besides the direct …
Last month Republicans were pushing a bill to get rid of the American Community Survey, an 11-page questionnaire about housing, …
On Tuesday 29th May, between 1 and 2pm, I’ll be hosting a Pop-Up exhibition at UCL Art Museum, looking at Computer generated art held in the UCL Art Museum Collection.
Pop-Up displays at UCL Art Museum are held throughout the yea…
I just got sent this flyer from the UCL Art Museum. How cool is that? Grin!
Tate is currently looking to recruit a Project Manager to undertake a substantial digitisation project within its archive. Here is an outline of what the job entails. Tate’s aim is to increase public awareness, understanding and enjoyment of British art from the 16th century to the present day. Successful in our Heritage Lottery Fund bid [...]
Is anyone else out there feeling as frustrated as I am by all the “revolutionary” new open courseware and online digital courses being announced that do very little to realy tackle the basic assumptions of hierarchical, one-directional, silo’d learning…
Henriette’s Interpretation Support System (ISS), which forms the basis of her thesis “Building an Interpretation Support System to aid the reading of Ancient Documents”.Yesterday was a nail-biting day for me, as I headed over to Oxford to meet Henri…
