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Data visualization
How do you visualize data?
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What about visualization? Sure, we can visualize the world, and some data streams are visualized live. Do you remember the Twitter visualization from a few years back where you could follow the tweets of people from around the globe. Tweets can be visualized, as can buildings, the use of words within a speech, and so on.…
Added by Raymond M. Kristiansen on March 4, 2010 at 1:11pm — 6 Comments
The Wired interview with Jane McGonigal
[I am sorry about the abundance of World of Warcraft-references here, but I use this game as an example since it is the most popular MMORPG around]
Added by Raymond M. Kristiansen on March 4, 2010 at 10:49am — 2 Comments
Connecting the people
In my continued commentary to the first comic, I now will move to this: How do we connect with people who are resourceful in areas we are not?
How do we connect the people with capital, with those in need of capital but who have ideas.
How do we connect people with…
ContinueAdded by Raymond M. Kristiansen on March 4, 2010 at 8:30am — 3 Comments
Real help vs. fairy tales
On the first page of the first chapter of the comic here on EVOKE, there are these powerful words "We need real help, not fairy tales".
Let's repeat that: "We need real help, not fairy tales".
In this blog, I will explore this a bit further. I will try to keep the technical jargon at a minimum.
First, a few facts:
1) When the main-stream media talks about a crisis, the story is…
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Added by Raymond M. Kristiansen on March 3, 2010 at 11:44pm — 3 Comments
Merging the threads of conversation (Imagine1)
Samuel Johnson once said:
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."
In 2020, I have become better at linking pools of information, be that databases, key people working in different environments, or…
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Added by Raymond M. Kristiansen on March 3, 2010 at 4:48pm — 3 Comments
Act1: My hero: Brian Conley
The first hero I want to write about is Brian Conley.
You may not have heard of him, but for the last years he has been doing impressive work in helping reports from hot zones around the world reach us. Unfiltered, co-created by locals, raw at times.
His first video project that I became aware of was "Alive in Baghdad". For a few years, they sent out videos…
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Added by Raymond M. Kristiansen on March 3, 2010 at 10:00am — 5 Comments
Learn1: Transferring knowledge
Added by Raymond M. Kristiansen on March 3, 2010 at 9:30am — 1 Comment
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