Data in a human context
March 6, 2012 to Data Art • Comments (3)
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Jer Thorp, a data artist in residence at The New York Times, shows off some of his work (like this and this) and speaks about the connection between the real world and the mechanical bits we know as data. Worth your 17 minutes.
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Blog post musing on the concept of "crowdsourcing" and museum programming--application to collections management implied?
Data in a human context - 0 views
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a data artist in residence at The New York Times, shows off some of his work (like this and this) and speaks about the connection between the real world and the mechanical bits we know as data.
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Gets to the human context at ~13:30 mins. Great illustration of how to make meaning from the seemingly meaningless, or at least from data that we don't usually connect to our daily experience.
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California spent $9.6 billion on prisons, versus $5.7 billion on higher education. Since 1980, California has built one college campus; it's built 21 prisons. The state spends $8,667 per student per year. It spends about $50,000 per inmate per year.
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A great blog entry that highlights some award-winning websites that can serve as models for our own online programming.
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Libraries providing need community services - will museums step up to these new challenges in the same way?
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More in-home testing headed our way. Hooray!
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This blog entry and following discussion brings up some very important issues regarding how best to engage visitors when dealing with socially-charged issues, in this case slavery.
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Nina Simon in her blog poses some important questions concerning mission driven versus mission serving activities.
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Historic house museums are adapting for the future too! And, if you have any interest in what those of us in the historic house field do and think, I strongly urge you to subscribe to Max's blog if you don't already.
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A new program prints folded shapes to achieve large finished products that move like fabric
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A cautionary tale...I saw lots of references to this on blogs I track in Feedly. Thought my brother-in-law should know about it since he works in electrical engineering. Tracked down the source to Kickstarter. It's an idea -- and probably a good one -- but not real yet.
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Does anyone know a museum participating as a Google Maker Camp "campsite"?
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If you haven't seen Nina's blog this week, it's a "must read!" It's an important reminder that there are many different types of museum visitors out there, and while we should all provide access for a diversity of audiences, we don't want to forget those elitist jerks (especially since you and I may fall into that category more often than we'd like to admit).
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The text of this blog is junk, but the pictures are food for thought.
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A great blog looking at some new trends in museum membership programs.
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