Category Archives for Visualise me
Workshop: Visualisere Facebooknettverket ditt i Gephi
Notes for a workshop I’m giving at a local high school today on visualising your Facebook network. Dette er stikkord til en workshop jeg skal ha på Nordahl Grieg videregående skole i dag om hvordan man visualiserer Facebooknettverket sitt i … Continue reading
Roberto Simanowski on the Facebook timeline as a “diary”
Roberto Simanowski is giving the second keynote at Remediating the Social. It is titled The Compelling Charm of Numbers: Writing for and Thru the Network of Data, and you can read the full paper in the PDF of the proceedings … Continue reading
DNA analysis as self-exploration
I’m fascinated by the many ways in which we use technology to see ourselves, and while I’ve mostly explored personal biometrics like FitBit, self-portraits with digital cameras and of course, blogs, I also wonder about the trend in personal DNA … Continue reading
Orality is power; social media let us be controlled?
Computers make more and more aspects of work into data that can be collected and monitored, according to Shoshana Zuboff’s In the Age of the Smart Machine (1984), writes Rob Horning in The New Inquiry, and he takes her argument forwards into the age … Continue reading
Liberating our (biometric) data
I gave a talk on technologically mediated self-representations (have to come up with a sexier term for that, it doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue) this morning for Piksels & Lines, a research seminar and workshop for the Libre Graphic Research … Continue reading
Fitbit as an automated diary
I’ve been using a Fitbit step counter since New Year and have been enjoying the various visualizations it gives me of my days. It provides an interesting form of automated diary of my days. Here, for instance, is last Monday, … Continue reading
Connecting all your social media to make a scrapbook
After my last post about visualizations of personal data, Guttorm Hveem suggested trying Memolane, a service that gathers all your social media feeds into a scrapbook that you can either keep private or make public. So of course I signed … Continue reading
A periodic table of visualization
If you click through to the original of this periodic table of visualization from Visual Literacy, you’ll be able to mouse over each element to see an example of that kind of visualization. (Via Guttorm Hveem)
“No digital natives but the devices themselves”
There are no digital natives but the devices themselves; no digital immigrants but the devices too, James Bridle writes. He extracted a history of 35,801 latitude/longitude codes from his iPhone after discovering in April 2011 that iPhones store location data … Continue reading