Data Visualization and AI Design
It is back! https://theyrule.net
They Rule is an interactive visualization of the interlocking directories of the largest US companies. It shows that 87 of the top 100 US companies in 2021 were connected through shared directors on their boards. It allows visitors to browse through the board-room connections, and create maps they can share with others. Visitors can find links between companies by clicking on the chair menu in the top left and printing out their maps.
Amid the images of swordplay, jousting, and wrestling, some 15th-century “fight books” (Fechtbücher) depict scenes of fierce combat between women and men, the latter stood waist-high in holes or barrels. What was going on? https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fechtbucher #medieval #renaissance #combat #fighting #illustration #history #histodon
This cello is strange and doesn't sound like the others, just goes awoo every so often 😁
I'd fallen for, and helped spread, what I now realize was a myth about quote tweets: That there's almost no research on them. Big mistake! Now rectified.
Here's my new post, digging into more than 30 studies with data on quote tweets. They don't settle all the questions. But there are answers, or at least partial ones, to most. It's still complicated, though.
It's a * very * long read, but there are summary points ....1/2
https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/01/12/quote-tweeting-over-30-studies-dispel-some-myths/
If you’re outraged about Adobe sending your pictures off their servers (you should be), please know other vendors do this too. That horse has already bolted.
Eg Microsoft Edge automatically sends your key presses in Edge to MS - enabled by default https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/how-to-disable-writing-assistance-via-group-policy/td-p/3648422
Microsoft Office 365 sends every photo and screenshot you add in Word, PowerPoint etc (including in emails) to Microsoft 365 Intelligent Services without prompt https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/everything-you-need-to-know-to-write-effective-alt-text-df98f884-ca3d-456c-807b-1a1fa82f5dc2
I eagerly await the end of the "Dataviz is storytelling" trope. Narrative is just one rhetorical mode of discourse, and there is no reason to prioritize it over description, exposition, and argumentation to the detriment of facts, context, logical reasoning and dialog. Dataviz is rhetoric.
Replace these “wireless telegraphs” with smartphones, update the dress a little, and this vision of "isolating technology" from a 1906 issue of Punch magazine could easily be from today: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-vision-of-isolating-technology-from-1906 #history #technology #illustration #histodon
Hello Mastodon.
I am looking for new PhD students to come work with me at the Oxford Internet Institute in 22/23 (@oiioxford) to study the future of data privacy and digital rights, the impact of AI and algorithms on digital platforms, and help co-create better digital futures.
Boosts very much appreciated! 🐘
One thing that's getting a little lost in this mix, is that some of the people desperately holding on at Twitter are because they are trapped by either healthcare or visas.
That there are systemic traps that trap workers in America so they feel unable to move freely to new employers who want them and would have better pay or conditions is *nuts* and deserves a lot more attention than it gets.
Very useful information for US-based mastodon mods https://twitter.com/rahaeli/status/1593819064161665024
Cats in Japanese Woodblock Prints: How Japan’s Favorite Animals Came to Star in Its Popular Art
Hi there, I'm another person looking for a new platform now that the bird site seems to be imploding. I'm a medical illustrator who does some #dataviz as part of my job, and a founder of the SciVizNYC conference. Here's a surgical illustration I created that was recently published.
#introduction
The Reuters Institute has just created a Mastodon account. Give us some love and follow us at @reutersinstitute
Hey there. I am a PhD student exploring how galaxies are connected with the large-scale structure of the universe and what that reveals about dark energy. I enjoy figuring out how to condense information- whether it be for galaxy statics, outreach, or decorating science bakes
Fantastic article on dealing with online abuse, and how moderation is the key https://medium.com/humane-tech/the-immortal-myths-about-online-abuse-a156e3370aee
I've been trying to rethink my relationship to social media to the closest thing I could relate to in physical space: academic conferences.
Twitter reminds me of the lecture hall. You're giving a talk to a big audience. There's always the audience member who wants to ask you that question but it's actially more of a comment really. Mastodon (and hci.social especially) reminds me much more of the hallway track—chatting over coffee and snacks with colleagues.
A new post in which I talk about this here Mastodon, how I like it already, and how a future net based on protocols can offer so many new opportunities and return the net to its founding principles and humanity. But then, I'm an optimist.
https://medium.com/whither-news/hope-for-a-post-musk-net-f156d0cdf431
I've made a deliberate choice against a quoting feature because it inevitably adds toxicity to people's behaviours. You are tempted to quote when you should be replying, and so you speak at your audience instead of with the person you are talking to. It becomes performative. Even when doing it for "good" like ridiculing awful comments, you are giving awful comments more eyeballs that way. No quote toots. Thank's
