From Obscurity to Prominence in Minutes: Political Speech and Real-Time Search Mustafaraj, Eni and Metaxas, Panagiotis (2010) From Obscurity to Prominence in Minutes: Political Speech and Real-Time Search. In: Proceedings of the WebSci10: Extending the Frontiers of Society On-Line, April 26-27th, 2010, Raleigh, NC: US. Recently, all major search engines introduced a new feature: real-time search results, embedded in the first page of organic search results. The content appearing in these results is pulled by Twitter, blogs, and news websites within minutes of its generation. In this paper, we argue that in the context of political speech, this feature provides disproportionate exposure to personal opinions, fabricated content, unverified events, lies and misrepresentations that would otherwise not find their way in the first page, giving them the opportunity to spread virally. Repository Staff Only: item control page
GRATIN O’Reilly Strata Conference, Santa Clara 2012 (20% reader discount) Once again it’s my pleasure to be supporting the third O’Reilly Strata Conference, which will be taking place in Santa Clara, California between February 28 and March 1 (don’t forget it’s a leap year!). Described as the ‘the home of data science’, the conference brings together some of the very best developers, data scientists, data analysts, CIOs and IT professionals who are driving the data revolution. As with previous events (in September and the launch event in February) Visualising Data readers can benefit from a 20% discount on their registration fees, using the code VIZDATA. So why should you attend? 9:00 Designing Data Visualizations Workshop Noah Iliinsky (Complex Diagrams) We will discuss how to figure out what story to tell, select the right data, and pick appropriate layout and encodings. We’ll briefly discuss tools, including pencil and paper. Understanding of your specific data or data types will help immensely. 13:30 (1) Hands-on Visualization with Tableau 8:45 Plenary
Nicolas Clauss Occupy London: video interview with Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Massive Attack’s Robert ’3D’ Del Naja; Call for all to get involved in Occupy movement Following the surprise thank you gig by Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Massive Attack’s 3D & Tim Goldsworthy of UNKLE for Occupy London – part of the global movement for social and economic justice – is delighted to be able to share an exclusive frank interview with Massive Attack’s Robert ’3D’ Del Naja and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke about why they support Occupy and why they did the gig. More details about the gig here . Occupy London now has three spaces, including its first occupation camp at St Paul’s Churchyard – just by the London Stock Exchange in the heart of the City – and a second camp at Finsbury Square in the borough of Islington. Its third space, is a multi-million abandoned complex of building at 21-29 Sun Street in Hackney, belonging to investment bank UBS which Occupy London, in an act of ‘public repossession’ has turned into its first Bank of Ideas, a space for debate and dialogue. Thom Yorke I mean, to me the starting point in my head was that film Inside Job. <<music>> That’s it.
RiTa now with one API for Java, JavaScript, Node, & Android! RiTa† is designed to be an easy-to-use toolkit for experiments in natural language and generative literature. The philosophy behind the API is to be as simple and intuitive as possible, while still providing adequate flexibility for more advanced tasks. RiTa is implemented in Java and JavaScript with a single API and optionally integrates with Processing. Some of the features of RiTa/RiTaJS include: Text-generation via Context-Free Grammars and Markov-chainsTaggers for Syllables, Phonemes, Stress, Part-of-Speech, etc. Based on the RiTa library for Java, RiTaJS was developed to provide a seamless transition for those wishing to work with programmatic natural language natively in the web browser (in HTML5), as well as for those switching from Processing to ProcessingJS. † from the old Norse, meaning to mark, scratch, or scribble
mind-map Workshop - Mind mapping - conceptual Mapping Cours du 01, 08 octobre 2008, 18 février 2009 Module 01 / 01 octobre 2008: présentation & bases théoriques Module 02 / 08 octobre 2008: workshop et réalisation des pièces digitales Module 03 / 18.février 2009: restitution et discussion en commun Part II Mind mapping cartographies diagrammes 1. mind map ou carte heuristique Carte des idées, carte conceptuelle, carte mentale, arbre à idées ou topogramme Met en scène les liens sémantiques entre des idées ,des liens hiérarchiques entre des concepts, une arborescence des données. Les liens sont organisés autour d'un mot clef central ou d'une idée ( le centre du diagramme). Une carte heuristique peut utiliser des couleurs, des symboles et des illustrations, et sert à une compréhension visuelle d'un système ( par exemple est utilisée dans les explication et représentations de réseaux, d'architecture d'un PC, etc références
Les glan(d)eurs numériques de l'image Thomas Mailaender se met en scène dans l’exposition qu’Arles consacrait (enfin !) à la création visuelle partagée à l’ère des réseaux. Pour lui, le fond d’écran volcanique figure le "tourisme extrême". © DR Les glan(d)eurs numériques de l’image (Arles, envoyé spécial) « From here on »..… A partir de maintenant... était l’exposition qu’Arles consacrait cet été à la création à l’ère du Web 2.0. Le Manifeste en question : Maintenant, nous sommes une espèce d’éditeurs. Le manifeste fait l’impasse sur les questions de droit d’auteur (très particulier en France) et les licences libres... pour ne garder qu’une posture artistique. Oublions donc ce manifeste dépassé et anecdotique pour nous concentrer sur l’exposition, stimulante, elle, et sur ces artistes en pleine forme ! De Google Images à Flickr, nous avons tous déjà cherché des images sur le Net, ne serait-ce que pour illustrer un exposé de biologie ! Prendre de la hauteur ! Hacking ou récup’ créative, la question se pose-t-elle encore ?
Surfdom The internet has revolutionised humanities research. But has the development of ever-more sophisticated online resources freed up scholars to explore new ideas, or made them slaves to the digital machine? Matthew Reisz reports Credit: Getty/Alamy/Art Archive It is hard to overstate the scale of the revolution that goes under the name "digital humanities". A remarkable project titled Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters seeks to reconstruct pan-European intellectual networks by creating a modern equivalent. The 18th-century equivalents of anthologies of cat poetry or poems to heal a broken heart were popular miscellanies of verse and song. A three-year project, the index is hosted by the Bodleian Library's Centre for the Study of the Book, funded by the Leverhulme Trust and led by Abigail Williams, Lord White fellow and tutor in English at St Peter's College, Oxford. The issue of democratisation is also intriguing.