Designer | Toolmaker | Educator. Author of Interactive Visualization (MIT '13), Teaching Machines (Johns Hopkins ‘14), Sage on the Screen (Johns Hopkins '16).
Middleburg, Virginia
Joined April 2008
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This data visualization by @nicolaraluk shows the occurrence of earthquakes on Earth between July 2017 and July 2018, but differently from other charts, this ones shows them with their depth. Here you can find the interactive version: buff.ly/2qtZ9yn
Excited to be working on a classroom simulator for teachers with Harvard's Graduate School of Education. Teaching with Grace (née Liza) helps teachers practice critical teaching skills in a risk-free setting.
Check out the demo video: lnkd.in/dRPN5wDJ (4-mins)
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"Flow," he argued, was a state of mind, a level of concentration in which outside stimuli, even time itself, seem to fall away. The psychologist who made the concept a cultural phenomenon has died at 87. nyti.ms/3EqjJ3E
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Thinking about grad school next year? Interested in visualization, human/AI interaction, computational art?
Consider Harvard! @wattenberg and I are building up our lab and will be looking for students.
Our DMs are open.
I'm looking for a co-founder to launch a new people-centric visual meeting app called èt • al, which offers more connectivity than a typical Zoom meeting. We have a robust MVP and hosted several successful meetings already. Here's a 3-min video about it:
lnkd.in/d7vA-5q
I've been working on a virtual meeting tool and I'm looking for people to try it out (gratis). Know of any smallish group/conference (50-300 people) this might appeal to? Here's a short video on it: youtube.com/embed/2F5pPeaUTd…
Introducing èt • al, a new web app we're developing to bring back the personal connection to virtual conferences. Check out the video below (3 mins) youtube.com/embed/2F5pPeaUTd…
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Virginians can begin in-person voting today! You can vote in person or by mail! You don't need an excuse! You don't need a witness! You can do this! Yes, possibly I've had too much coffee! elections.virginia.gov/casti…
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Just realized that the mention of @DigYok really should have included mention of our great and glorious IT specialist Doug Ross, as well as the much missed Robbie Bingler, who put forth much effort and thought into the plumbing and wiring and skeletal structure of the project.
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from Walter Houghton's 1880 political masterpiece
👉see all of his amazing information graphics, just published at davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet…
The sixth in my Merrie Montage series of 3-minute animated films explains cognitive load starting with the phone company in the 1950s. George Miller and other psychologists explored the limits of our memory.
youtu.be/J-iU195mcWA
Boxing Cats: Edison and the movies
Just finished the fifth in my Merrie Montage series of 3-minute animated films.
This movie explores Thomas Edison’s journey to invent and popularize the moving pictures as a complete ecosystem.
youtu.be/gvnRmP0-XyU
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Just finished the fourth in my Merrie Montage series of 3-min animated films.
youtu.be/YVbkexkMwag
Looks at Skinner’s bizarre plan to use pigeons to guide missiles during WW2 and explore his shaping technique.
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Merrie Montage #3: The Broad Street Map
Just finished the 3rd in Merrie Montage series of 3-min animations.
youtu.be/WSKv4Czaw7A
Looks at the story behind John Snow's 1854 London map, an early use of persuasion.
Feel free to share with anyone who might be interested.
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reading @bferster's 2014 book Teaching Machines while drafting my thesis proposal and I was struck by a figure in Chapter 5 - it's fascinating to see the complete breadth (for better or for worse) of various districts' approach to distance learning right now.
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How have media and technology impacted the way we teach and learn? @bferster's "Sage on the Screen" is an essential and critical response, and it's one of our 1,400 books currently free to access at @ProjectMUSE. ow.ly/yPPH50zlM8U
