"You feel euphoric you know. Because it's one of the best buzzes personally I've had in my life. Better than any drug. And you know it was just that....It was a feeling of standing up straight against an institution that's been historically has always been brutal, wicked and bad mind towards young people especially young black people."
In collaboration with the LSE, the Guardian's
Reading the Riots project has used a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methodologies to explore the causes of England's summer of disorder.
posted by roofus
on Dec 5, 2011 -
26 comments
A corpus analysis of rock harmony [PDF] -
The analyses were encoded using a recursive notation, similar to a context-free grammar, allowing repeating sections to be encoded succinctly. The aggregate data was then subjected to a variety of statistical analyses. We examined the frequency of different chords
and chord transitions ... Other results concern the frequency of different root motions, patterns of
co-occurrence between chords, and changes in harmonic practice across time. More information, analysis, and explanation
here.
posted by Wolfdog
on Jul 29, 2011 -
33 comments
Every year since 2005, Nicholas Feltron has logged the progress of his life – his meals, locations, conversations, pets, travel, everything – in minute and exacting detail, summarizing his activities in what he calls "Annual Reports" featuring
beautiful infographics.
Last year, Feltron's father died. Rather than talking about himself for the 2010 Annual Report, Feltron memorialized
the entire life of his father.
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posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul
on Jul 14, 2011 -
16 comments
The Harvard Study of Adult Development is the longest prospective study of mental and physical well-being ever conducted. For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been following 824 individuals through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age. Designer
Laura Javier took ten of those cases and visualized them in the
Elements of Happiness.
[via flowingdata]
posted by anifinder
on Jun 27, 2011 -
13 comments
Mining the Mother of all Data Dumps We now have a relatively massive haul of digital data from the OBL strike. There are several forensic toolkits in use by the private
(commercially available) and
public sector as well as
open-source.
Best practices include inventorying all the sources, cloning the sources so as to not damage pristine data, recovering any partial or damaged content, making the cloned sources read-only, adhering to legally-admissible tools standards, and documenting everything. There is an excellent source titled Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content from the Council on Library and Information Resources [
pdf,
Resource Shelf]. But what to do next*?
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posted by rzklkng
on May 4, 2011 -
40 comments
Jer Thorp is the
New York Times' current Data Artist in Residence. He creates information-rich animations, most recently of the latest
Kepler candidate extrasolar planets [previously]; also a global render of
people's uses of
Twitter.
Lee Byron is a designer, artist, and biker: his work includes visualisations of
Facebook breakups over the course of a year and
Hollywood box office revenues, 1986 - 2008.
David McCandless is an "information journalist"; his blog,
InformationisBeautiful.net, has been
linked to
plenty of
times on the
blue, but you might enjoy
this overview of his work and others at TED. Similarly, Hans Rosling,
also mentioned previously.
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posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul
on Feb 10, 2011 -
6 comments
With
kettling becoming a commonly deployed tactic by the London Met, students from the University College London are fighting back with
Sukey, launched this morning.
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posted by asymptotic
on Jan 29, 2011 -
56 comments
Dataists give their hopes and dreams for data, data tools and
data science in 2011.
Already, Google has provided
Google Refine (
previously) to help clean your datasets. While great
visualizations can be created with online
tools or by combining R (great
posts previously), with
ggplot2,
GGobi, and even
Google Motion Charts With R (already built into Google
Spreadsheets).
Need data?
Needlebase, helps non-programmers scrape, harvest, merge, and data from the web. Or if you’re introspective,
Your Flowing Data and
Daytum provide tools to measure and chart details of your own life.
posted by stratastar
on Jan 11, 2011 -
19 comments
"They're not out to make a quick buck, they're looking to protect the integrity of the franchise and its mythology." 1998's
Star Trek Insurrection went through a number of different plots before becoming the film we ultimately saw. Starting out as
Star Trek: Stardust, the first take on the idea involved Captain Picard going all
Heart of Darkness on a former friend from his Starfleet Academy days in a bid to find the Fountain of Youth. That treatment evolved into a remarkably
Avatarish story called simply
Star Trek IX in which Picard must go upriver to kill a malfunctioning Data as part of a Federation/Romulan alliance to displace strange alien natives from a planet teeming with a valuable and rare ore (spoiler: Picard actually kills Data in this treatment, and Tom Hanks was supposed to have a major role somewhere).
Let
the late Michael Piller guide you through the writing of
Insurrection in his unpublished book
Fade In: The Making of Star Trek: Insurrection (his "last great gift to the fans and to aspiring writers everywhere") in which he presents his original story treatments, story notes from his bosses at Paramount, surprisingly reasonable Trekker-type reactions from actors Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner, and much more. First made freely available by
TrekCore.com, Piller's family has since asked that it be removed, but you'll still find the file roaming the Internet if you
boldly go looking for it.
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posted by Servo5678
on Dec 31, 2010 -
104 comments
visualizing.org,
Making sense of complex issues
through data and design.
About.
Visualizing is a place to showcase your work, get feedback, ensure that your work is seen by lots of people and gets used by teachers, journalists, and conference organizers to help educate the public about various world issues.
posted by nickyskye
on Oct 4, 2010 -
6 comments
