MixedRealities

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[mixedrealities]

How one developer got the Internet to watch people code

The latest Twitch TV trend isn't about watching people play games—it's watching people make them.

[mixedrealities]

Scraping for Journalists

Scraping - getting a computer to capture information from online sources - is one of the most powerful techniques for data-savvy journalists who want to get to the story first, or find exclusives that no one else has spotted. Faster than FOI and more deta…

A new edition!!!

[mixedrealities]

The East Coast woke up this morning to news that an earthquake had hit Los Angeles. In Los Angeles, folks woke up to...an actual earthquake. But who broke that story? All hail Ken Schwencke (@schwanksta) - our robonewsman overlord! pic.twitter.com/ND7yYWsbmQ— Benny Spiewak (@BennySp) Jan…

Nice work...

[responsivenews]

How the BBC should practice Responsive Web Design

FACT: design as a service and responsive web design are incompatible. This is an open letter to Ralph Rivera, the head of BBC FM, explaining how we should change the relationship between developer and designer. This blog post is massively inspired by (and in some places copy’n’pasted from) Trent Walton’s excellent blog post which finally placed into words how I’ve always felt but was unable to externalise. Thank you Trent :-) and sorry for copying you so blatantly.

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[mucholderthen]

Posted on VisualLoop: 90 dataviz Tumblr blogs to follow March 7, 2014  Read more …

Blogs on data visualization, cartography and data journalism  in alphabetical order:

Afrographique

Anatomy Diagrams

Aron Pilhofer

Art & Science Journal

Baby Steps in Data Journalism

Beautiful Type

Beauty in Data

Brian McGill Newsart

Boston Globe Infographics department

CartoDB Blog

Cartophile

Charts n’ Things

Chicago Tribune Graphics

Cognitive Geometrics

Column Five

Dalalalataviz

Data Anxiety

Databurgh

Data, Dispatches, and Diagrams

Data Journalism Links

Data Journalism Tools

datahacker

Data Noveau

El Mundo Graficos

Explore

Fast Company on Tumblr

Feltron

Fuck ton of Anatomy References

Fuck Yeah Venn Diagrams

Geek Vizious

Geometry Matters

Graham Roberts

Hyperreal Cartography

How it works diagrams

I Love Charts

Inconsolata

Info Jocks

JESS3 on Tumblr

Judgmental Maps

Life and Code

Linda Hall Library

Maps Of the Continental United States (MOCUS).

Maps on the Web

Memuco

Mindfuck Maths

Moshita

Movies in Color

Movie Sound

Milwaukee Stat

National Post – Art & Design

Nature Graphics

New(s) Narratives

Old news graphics

Paul Bradshaw’s tumblelog

Pew Internet

Quantified Breakup

Quartz on Tumblr

Schema Design

Smithsonian Libraries

Statlas

Stephen Wildish

Tableau Love

Tiffany Farrant-Gonzalez work

Time for Maps

The 3-Minute Win

The annotation layer

The Appendix

The Art of Physics

The Atlantic Cities

The center for Investigative Reporting

The Economist

The Infogram Blog

The Land of Maps

The New Yorker on Tumblr

The Venn Review

Transit Maps

Thumbs Up Viz

Union Metrics

Vejo infográficos em tudo

Visualize

Visualizing Math

Visual knowledge

VizGif

VizForaCause

Vizzuality Blog

Washington Posts Information Graphics

We Love Datavis

WonkViz

Wolfram Alpha Blog

World Bank Data Viz

WTFViz

[lifeandcode]

Ooh!

[mixedrealities]

Limited time left to register for journo data course, it starts on May 19th

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This Simple Data-Scraping Tool Could Change How Apps Are Made | Wired Design | Wired.com

Kimono is a web app that lets you slurp data from any website and turn it instantly into an API.

This could go beyond we scraping: 'In the scenario Rowe lays out, it takes root as a sort of connective tissue for an entirely new class of interactions and experiences–something like a nervous system for the internet of things. You could imagine pointing Kimono at not just websites but other sorts of streams, making objects react to sound, say, or building applications that respond to live video feeds.'

[mixedrealities]

Here at the newsroom, my colleague Raphael Cockx is a bit of a rolemodel for all things coding. He transformed a series by Wouter Van Driessche into a beautiful longread, using html, css, JavaScript and jQuery (the text is in Dutch, what you see is the third part of the series). 

[mixedrealities]

I'm still struggling with JavaScript, but hey, here is PHP at Codecademy... I must say that even a basic background in JavaScript (and a bit of Python) really makes it easier to learn PHP. The same building blocks are coming back. Sometimes I think it would be nice to study an introduction  to computer science...

[mixedrealities]

Tor develops its own anonymous IM tool to hide chat from spying eyes

Service will force instant message traffic over Tor's network to evade surveillance.

Of course, it will never totally work. But it makes it more expensive to monitor your communication.

[techslides-blog]

Over 2000 D3.js Examples and Demos

A huge collection of D3 links

[mixedrealities]

D3.js... Another part of journo's toolkit...

[lifeandcode]

Sitting in a class on D3.js, a javascript framework for creating data visualizations, and I get good news: Lyra.  

As one of the creators put it, easy tools for creating data visualizations (Excel, Tableau) aren’t always very expressive.  Tools like D3 are very expressive — but you have to write lots and lots of code.  It’s hard. 

Enter Lyra.  Lyra puts a GUI on top of D3, and when you’re done, generates the code.  It also puts out a flat JSON file in a format known as Vega.  The cool thing about that?  Vega is highly reusable.  You can reuse a visualization simply by feeding it a different dataset.  Cool.  

Lyra: An Interactive Data Visualization Tool

[parkparadigm]

Todd Yellin is, by all appearances, a structuralist. He tells Madrigal that his goal was to “tear apart content” and create a “Netflix Quantum Theory,” under which movies could be broken down into their constituent parts — into “quanta” or the “little ‘packets of energy’ that compose each movie.” Those quanta eventually became “microtags,” which Madrigal tells us are used to describe everything in the movie.

https://medium.com/anthropology-and-algorithms/d9f5bae87812

Reminds me of our “quantum, risk/product/service quark” approach to understanding finance (and in so doing being able to build better “machines” ie business models enabled by technologies to solve people’s financial needs)…

(via parkparadigm)

And the same applies for so many other industries, such as news media and education...

[sciencemapper-deactivated201503]

There are lots of free tools available to scrape data off the internet. First up is ScraperWiki, with easy to use ‘Search for Tweets’.

The #ddj hashtag is used to share stories, tools, maps and ideas that relate to data journalism. I want to find the best data journalism links of the past...

[mixedrealities]

let's all follow #ddj

[arcfinity]

TOM HUNTER is deluged by information - and does not drown

Adrian Hon A History of the Future in 100 Objects, Skyscraper Publications, PPB £14.99 / $21.75

Drawing his ‘what if?’ inspiration from the next one hundred years of humanity and his format from A History of the World In 100...

[mixedrealities]

Man with a vision: Movidius' CEO talks Project Tango (Q&A)

Remi El-Ouazzane says his chip firm Movidius is more than just another partner in Google's mobile 3D-mapping project -- it's at the center of a revolution in how computers process visuals. Read this article by Seth Rosenblatt on CNET News.

[mixedrealities]

Put the Tango-smartphone on a quadcopter...

Take #ProjectTango (http://t.co/IL1exUgHvh …) put it on a quadcopter and you have the mapping drones from @PrometheusMovie ?

— Andrew Lee (@andrewdlee)

20 februari 2014