Three Innovations in Crowd Sourced Scenario Planning, Part 1
Part 1, An Introduction I’ve spent the better part of the last four years working on approaches to online scenario planning as part of my PhD. During this time I have designed and implemented three systems – each of which explored a different approach to crowd sourcing, engagement and online participation in futures work. I call these experiments in “large-scale participatory futures systems”. Over the next few weeks I will be writing these up for the blog. The Three Systems, an Overview The first system is called “Futurescaper” and was developed in partnership with the International Futures Forum (IFF), Tony Hodgson and my friend Nathan Koren. The second system is called “SenseMaker Scenarios“. The third system is called “FogCatcher”, and was developed with Anab Jain and Jon Ardern from Superflux. All three projects are still in continuous development and available for experimental project use. Futurescaper Futurescaper uses a Wikipedia-style approach to collect trends and weak signals.
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How to become a data visualization ninja with 3 free tools for non-programmers
We noticed many times between the lines of this blog how data visualization is in the hype and how this trend is growing and growing. That’s good news guys! It’s fun and it’s … success! But as more and more people join this wild bunch we have to take care of those who are not as skilled as we are yet. There are many people out there who love data visualization but they think they are out of this business because they are not able to code. I personally think that this is a problem and that we have to be as inclusive as we can. As data visualization develops we can expect to have people developing tools that are more accessible and easier to use also for non-programmers. By the way, if you are one of those wannabe non-programmer-data-enthusiast I have a good news for you: the future is here! Data Visualization is 80% data 20% visualization I don’t think I will find anyone arguing against this sentence. And there is also a subtler issue here. So here it is. The Ninja’s Toolbox Conclusion
How to use FF Chartwell
Primarily suitable for Adobe Creative Suite, FF Chartwell for print uses OpenType ligatures to transform strings of numbers automatically into charts. The data remains in a text box, allowing for easy updates and styling. It’s really simple to use; you just type a series of numbers like: ‘10+13+37+40’, turn on Stylistic Alternates or Stylistic Set 1 and a graph is automatically created. To help get you started using FF Chartwell we’ve created this video tutorial and here are some simple steps: ONE — Firstly always make sure the letter spacing is set to “0” (zero) TWO — Using the values 0-100, type the values, then use “+” to combine them into one chart. THREE — Want to bring a bit of color to your work? FOUR — Turn on Stylistic Alternates or Stylistic Set 1 and enjoy! To see the original data all you need to do is turn off Stylistic Set or Stylistic Alternates.
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European news agenda - halfblog
More than one million news articles in 22 languages have been analysed using the latest technology to pinpoint the factors that influence and shape the news agenda in 27 European countries. Every day hundreds of news outlets across Europe choose which story to cover from a wide and diverse selection. While each outlet may make news choices based on individual criteria, clear patterns emerge when these choices are studied across many outlets and over a long period of time. They discovered that chosen news content reflects national biases, as well as cultural, economic and geographic links between countries. (via European news agenda – cardiff.ac.uk/news) Sadly though, there is no elaboration on exactly which shared interests countries have, and exactly what kind of issues outlying countries are more interested in. The big potential use I can see for all of this is the automated discovery of potential stories of interest – a feed of ‘stories my local media are not reporting’. Figure 2.
Curso Gratuito de Adsense
El artículo de hoy va a ser un poco diferente a los que suelo publicar en el blog. Llevo varias semanas trabajando este artículo porque creo que va a ser algo que posiblemente te ayude a crearte un buen ingreso extra a final de mes. Se trata de un curso paso a paso, sobre como encontrar un nicho de mercado interesante, y explotarlo económicamente. Aprenderemos a crear páginas donde insertaremos unos anuncios que Google nos proporcionará de forma automática (Adsense) y cada vez que alguien haga click sobre alguno de estos anuncios, tu te llevarás dinero. Suena a truco del «tocomocho» o algún curso de «engañabobos»? Hay mucha gente que vive de esto. Empezamos? 1. Lo primero que tendrás que hacer, es crearte una cuenta en Google Adsense. Esto lo podrás hacer con tu cuenta de Gmail (si tienes una) o sino, crearte una cuenta desde cero. Esto es imprescindible para que luego podamos configurar los anuncios que queramos que aparezcan en nuestra web. 2. Searchmetrics Segunda pantalla: Última pantalla:
L'infographie dans la production du savoir
En lisant un journal ou un magazine, peut-être avez-vous déjà eu l’impression que cartes et graphiques illustraient profusément les informations ? Sur Internet, peut-être avez-vous remarqué que diagrammes et animations – nouveaux outils incontournables pour présenter des données – surgissaient un peu partout sur l’écran ? Peut-être avez-vous lu dans le dernier manuel de journalisme que la recherche, « l’extraction de données » et leur visualisation, étaient les armes les plus affûtées du kit du journaliste post-moderne ? Illustration : © James Sillavan, 2012. Si tel est le cas, ou encore si vous avez ressenti, ne serait-ce qu’une fois dans votre vie, un attrait particulier pour des données présentées dans un graphique, c’est que vous êtes d’ores et déjà engagé dans la course frénétique à la production et à la consommation de ces nouveaux envahisseurs du monde de l’information : les infographies. Alors, comment s’y retrouver dans ce labyrinthe ? Mais ce n’est pas tout. Un changement radical
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