Network Visualization While we're on the topic of academic papers and how they're linked, Johan Bollen et. al used clickstream data to draw detailed maps of science, from the point of view of those actually reading the papers. That is, instead of relying on citations, they used log data on how readers request papers, in the form of a billion user interactions on various web portals. Maps of science derived from citation data visualize the relationships among scholarly publications or disciplines. They are valuable instruments for exploring the structure and evolution of scholarly activity. Cross-fertilization. Each circle represents a journal and edges represent connections between journals, according to Johan Bollen et. al's clickstream model. So you have most of the engineering and physical sciences on the perimeter, medical-related areas to the left, and liberal arts is that middle cluster. [PLoS ONE | Thanks, @drewconway]
Donations Building a fact-based world view Gapminder is a non-profit foundation based in Stockholm. Our goal is to replace devastating myths with a fact-based worldview. Our method is to make data easy to understand. Your contribution will help us in our efforts to explain how the world is changing. Help us achieve a fact-based understanding of the world. Yours sincerely, Hans Rosling, Co-founder of the Gapminder Foundation Make your donation now Select your amount: Personal data is handled in accordance with the Swedish Personal Data Act. HTML5 A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML W3C Working Draft 29 March 2012 This Version: Latest Published Version: Latest Editor's Draft: Previous Versions: Editor: Ian Hickson , Google, Inc. This specification is available in the following formats: single page HTML , multipage HTML , web developer edition . Copyright © 2012 W3C ® ( MIT , ERCIM , Keio ), All Rights Reserved. Abstract 1 Introduction
Building a Kick-Ass Social Media Dashboard If you are tasked with building a social media dashboard to track your efforts, look no further than this post. I have built many dashboards over the years and as a personal resolution to making my job easier, I decided to cut to the chase and get to the metrics that matter most. That means cutting out the everyday metrics that litter and cloud up the social media manager’s real success story. Now I am not saying that tracking followers, fans, sentiment, etc. is not important, but those are the vanity metrics that tend to give social media a bad name. These type of metrics are great indicators but they don’t really tie back to your business bottom line: driving revenue. With that being said here are the top metrics that I measure here at Marketo on a weekly basis. Referring Traffic from Social Google Analytics is a fantastic way to measure how much traffic is being referred to your website from the various social channels. Conversions from Social This one’s pretty self-explanatory.
Flare | Data Visualization for the Web Content Curation Primer Photo by Stuck in Customs What is Content Curation? Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. Content curation is not about collecting links or being an information pack rat, it is more about putting them into a context with organization, annotation, and presentation. People and organizations are now making and sharing media and content all over the social web. Content Curation Provides Value from the Inside Out What does that mean for nonprofits and the people who work for them? For some staff members, content curation can be professional of learning. The biggest challenge to becoming a content curator is getting past the feeling of “content fried” or so much good content and so little time to digest it. The Three S’s of Content Curation: Seek, Sense, Share Content curation is a three-part process: Seek, Sense, and Share. Getting Started
The Open Graph protocol Full Spectrum: 10 Books on Sensemaking for the TED 2012 Bookstore This week, I’m at TED , where I had the honor of curating a selection of books for the TED Bookstore around this year’s theme, . Here are my picks, along with the original text that appears on the little cards in the bookstore, and my blurb about the selection: I believe creativity is combinatorial — it’s our ability to take existing pieces of knowledge, information, insight, and ideas that we’ve gathered over the course of our lives, and recombine them into new ideas. Curation – the purposeful filtration of information – is what fills our mental pool of resources with the most meaningful building blocks of creativity possible. In a way, it’s a sensemaking mechanism for the world, allowing us to see not only why different pieces matter but also how they relate to one another and might fit together. Gathered here are 10 curated books on the loose theme of sensemaking, from a visual history of the timeline to a biography of information to a handmade exploration of Indian mythology. by :
Babuinobot What is Babuino? Babuino is a software program that combines the power of the Arduino hardware platform with the intuitive and fun Logo programming language using a click and drag GUI interface. This allows even young children to build their own programs and run them on a microcontroller. What is so Special About the Babuinobot? It's Affordable Costs will vary considerably depending on bulk purchase discounts, availability of local materials, re-using parts and materials from discarded waste and electronics, etc. Free Open Source Software All of the software mentioned in this website for programming the Babuinobot is free, as in "you do not need to pay for it." Open Source Hardware The circuitry is based on the Arduino, a very popular hardware/software platform that is open hardware. Accommodates a Wide Range of Programming Abilities It's Flexible There are directions on this website to build a Babuinobot robot, but you can change them to build any kind of robot you want. It's Fun!!
Toolglass and Magic Lenses: The See-Through Interface Bier, E. A., Stone, M., Pier, K., Buxton, W. & DeRose. T. (1993). Toolglass and magic lenses: the see-through interface. , 73-80. Eric A. Xerox PARC, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304 (1) of Toronto, (2)University of Washington (TM) are new user interface tools that can appear, as though on a transparent sheet of glass, between an application and a traditional cursor. I.3.6 [ ]: Methodology and Techniques-interaction techniques; H.5.2 [ ]: User Interfaces-interaction styles; I.3.3 [ ]: Picture/Image Generation-viewing algorithms; I.3.4 [ ]: Graphics Utilities-graphics editors multi-hand, button, lens, viewing filter, control panel, menu, transparent, macro 1. We introduce a new style of graphical user interface, called the . Two hands can be used to operate the see-through interface. A set of simple widgets called is shown in figure 1. Click-through buttons. Many widgets can be placed on a single sheet, as shown in figure 2. A sheet of widgets. 2. Multi-Handed Interfaces 3. . Grids
Visual Programming Arduino: modkit and the others | dev.SquareCows.com Not long ago, our friend [Ed Baafi] told us about the amazing work he was doing on ModKit: a very interesting project in bringing visual programming on the Arduino side. Making programming as easy as building bricks is the common Quest of many different projects, aimed to work in the Educational field, teaching kids build their own programs (and toys). Modkit is an in-browser graphical programming environment for little devices called embedded systems. Modkit can currently program Arduino and Arduino compatible hardware using simple graphical blocks similar to and heavily inspired by the Scratch programming environment developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab.Modkit is currently available by invite only. Brian’s post has a good review about all the other arduino visual programmers. I’ll try to update and add some expreriences to this list (thanks Brian!) [Amici] EduWear’s project: [Babuinobot] Project Via [Make] and [TransiLab]
Assessing Your Team's UX Skills By Jared M. Spool Originally published: Dec 10, 2007 "I didn't realize it required so many different skills," the newly-appointed user experience (UX) team manager told us. "I mean, it seemed so straight forward when we came up with the idea, but once we got into it, we kept realizing all the things we didn't know how to do." Unfortunately, this isn't the first time we'd heard this from a manager. Migrating Away from the Specialists Approach Traditionally, when an organization set out to build a UX team, they did so by recruiting and hiring individuals trained in the various specialties. However, most organizations couldn't afford such a team. Organizations that couldn't afford a team would then "wing it", training the personnel at hand to solve the problems on an as-needed-basis. Yet, over time, the specialties have become better at explaining what they do. Assessing the Team's UX Skills To help managers with the assessment, we've created a simple 130-point scoring process.
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