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War Data: Willingness to Fight

28 October 2010
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How willing would you be to fight in a war? Might your willingness to fight be based on which country you call home?
The answer to the second question is, “yes”.
Citizens of superpowers and war torn nations have little interest in fighting a war. However, some citizens of war torn countries are quite happy to [...]

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War Data: Visualization of Afghanistan Hotspots Using Wikileaks Data

26 October 2010
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How would you take a data set released by Wikileaks and visualize it to see activity in Afghanistan over time? As part of this week’s theme of war data, I present a visualization based on leaked war data.
Mike Dewar, Drew Conway, John Myles White, and Harlan Harris used R code (the scripts, etc., are available [...]

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War Data: a Short Profile of WikiLeaks

25 October 2010
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What happens when your data is leaked online? What happens when that data contradicts the official reports of a powerful government? What happens if that data is about a war, and the war is currently being fought?
Welcome to Wikileaks — an online site used by journalists and whistleblowers that provides public access to very private [...]

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Google Not Being Evil

20 October 2010
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Why does Google want to know so much about you?
The company provides us with services ranging from maps to email, phones to video, books to social media — all free. Why do they do this, and how can the company afford to do this?
The more products and services the company provides for [...]

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Denial of Service Attacks — Cyber Vandals and Cyber Activism Explored

19 October 2010
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When a Denial of Service attack occurs, is it vandalism and mischief, an act of war, or a new form of democratic protest? The answer to that question might depend on which side you are on — it is a bit like the quote that “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter“. Regardless of [...]

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Journalism in the Age of Data

18 October 2010
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How can journalists adapt to the data deluge? One way is to use tools and tricks “from computer science, researchers, and artists” (and, I hope, Information Science).
Geoff McGhee posted this video from Stanford. He writes:

Journalists are coping with the rising information flood by borrowing data visualization techniques from computer scientists, researchers and artists. Some [...]

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How Your Personal Desk Space Defines You

15 October 2010
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How do you like to work? Do you move from place to place, with only a smart phone and your lap top? Is a desk an anachronism? Or, do you prefer to have one place to go to work that is, “yours”?
Aaron Trinder explores the concept of the desk, what it means to various workers, [...]

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Zotero Everywhere — Coming Soon to a Browser Near You

24 September 2010
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How do you organize your references when you are doing research? I’ve tried several different methods, both digital and manual. For a while, my favorite was Zotero, but I did not want to be tied to the Firefox browser; I prefer to use Safari. If there is any one immediate area where I would be [...]

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Three and a Half Seconds About Life

24 September 2010
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You enter a contest and you are given three words. You have to make a short movie based on those three words — “ring”, “three and a half”, and “winter”. What topic or topics would you cover?
Yoav Brill, Shay Yosef, and Eran Hilleli came up with a creative answer to their limited data dilemma for [...]

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Little Red Riding Hood, the Animated Infographic Version

20 September 2010
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If you were the Big Bad Wolf and you were on a diet, would you want to know how many calories Grandma contains? What about the cost of the bread and wine you, the parent, are sending to your mother or mother-in-law via your daughter? Tomas Nilsson took on the story of Little Red Riding [...]

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