as in comprehensible is difficult. This morning I was looking at a few of my favourite blogs and in Flowing Data came across a great multimedia educational site that uses multimedia to impart the idea of scale and cells. Wonderfully simple.
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Collective Flushing – a measure of nationalism
March 11, 2010 in Uncategorized
Benedict Anderson’s wonderful book on nationalism Imagined Communities introduced the idea of simultaneity. Print media, back in the day, especially in vernacular languages (i.e. not latin) enabled the reading of the same ideas in different places at the same time (i.e. the morning paper) for the first time. This, he stated, created unity [...]
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Ottawa Open Data & Open Government in the News
March 2, 2010 in Access, Uncategorized, canada, government, interview
The City of Ottawa is discussing Open Data. On March 1. 2010 a Report to City of Ottawa: Information Technology Sub-Committee / Sous-comité de la technologie de l’information was discussed between and among City staff & councilors and three members of the public.
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Taking Stock of Tech: Reflections on Law, Technology and Society + Ruins and Zeroing In: Infrastructure Ruins and Datalands + City of Ottawa: Open Data +
March 1, 2010 in Uncategorized
This is a big week!
Friday, March 5 all day, there is a fantastic conference at Ottawa University for the inauguration of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society: Taking Stock of Tech: Reflections on Law, Technology and Society. The conference Program is fantastic and includes some of the world’s foremost authorities on things law, [...] -
Tattoo database!
February 18, 2010 in Art, datasets, government, infrastructure
Yup! I am not sure I would want all the personal data in the dbase public, but the non private stuff, such as the images that do not identify the persons and the associated metadata describing the tattoos would be a really interesting research too for those doing body studies.
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The Economist on Open Data
February 8, 2010 in Uncategorized
Among America’s number-crunchers-in-chief, it is Mr Chopra whose office comes closest to the new culture of using data in a free, creative way. He thinks more government agencies should mimic the division of labour that now defines his own job at the top of the American administration: a CIO who guards stable information platforms and [...]
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