Web application development • Visualization theory and techniques • Geographic information systems • Statistics Back to School 2009-2010 John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship
• Open government/transparency movements • E-commerce, electronic record-keeping • Digitization of media (photos, music, books...) • Remote sensors, RFID tags, POS systems • Plummeting Cost of Storage • Data formats (XML, JSON, RDF… ), APIs • Social media Explosion of Electronic Information * Exabyte = 1 million terabytes
exabytes a day… in 2003! • Increasing velocity of decision-making, advent of real-time (or close) data • Responsible use of powerful information technology: smartphone tracking, facial recognition, other data collection methods • Government, business and individuals rethinking long-held habits in light of new, actionable information Challenges of the 21st Century Dealing with Data
• Leverage ability to recognize patterns, visual sense-making • Powerful graphics chips enable animation, live data processing possible Dealing with Data Using the Eye-Brain Connection Map of New Brainland by Unit Seven via Flickr The Promise of Data Visualization
live traffic Donation Dashboard Farecast search results Greatschools.org Zillow, Trulia, real estate search engines SF Park = We’re learning things that used to be unknown, unknowable or impractical to know. The Promise of Data Visualization
to stop looking for inspiration in the next political or philosophical "ism" and start exploring how technology is changing our understanding of the liberal arts. The last frontier is about method, they say, using powerful technologies and vast stores of digitized materials using powerful technologies and vast stores of digitized materials that previous humanities scholars did not have.” –The New York Times
is rapidly overwhelming our traditional methods of research. The Chronicling America project (a joint endeavor of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress), for example, recently digitized its one millionth historical newspaper page, and they will soon make millions more freely available online. ! What can scholars do with such an immense wealth of information? Currently, they cannot do much. Without tools and methods capable of handling such large datasets—and thus sifting out meaningful patterns embedded within them—scholars typically find themselves confined to performing only basic word searches across enormous collections. While such basic searches can, indeed, find stray information scattered in unlikely places, they becoming increasingly less useful as datasets continue to grow in size. If a search for a particular term yields 4,000,000 results, even those search results produce a dataset far too large for any single scholar to analyze in a meaningful way using traditional methods."
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