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Policy & Technology: Edward Tufte’s keynote for Tech@State’s Data Visualization event

Sunday, September 25, 2011

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Policy & Technology: Edward Tufte’s keynote for Tech@State’s Data Visualization event

Despite the title, Tufte's keynote for the Tech@State event on data visualization was the same that he gave at a one-day workshop I attended in 1999. It was a brilliant talk then, and it’s still good now. It could have been better if Tufte addressed implementation. The how. The practice of creating good infographics for decisionmakers.

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Delicious wordle & shifting perspectives

Thursday, July 16, 2009

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Delicious wordle & shifting perspectives

Visualization is powerful because it gives you a different perspective. Which helps you think differently. I like to tell my friends that I've figured out what enlightenment is: It's the ability to see all different perspectives simultaneously.

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Ushahidi: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information

Monday, February 2, 2009

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Ushahidi (“testimony” in Swahili) is an experimental web platform that crowdsources crisis information. People can submit reports via text messaging using a mobile phone, email, or the web. Looks like it can be deployed (sorry, geek speak) for a specific crisis. It was most recently use to track events in Gaza and was also used [...]

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