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hansdezwart

Gapminder Desktop - Gapminder.org - 0 views

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    With Gapminder Desktop you can show animated statistics from your own laptop
Media Lab

Wordle - Beautiful nubes de palabras - 1 views

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    generating word clouds, interesting as a game, as analysis can be very simple, depending on what you want to search.
Media Lab

http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/images/1/1a/The_Semantic_Web.pdf - 0 views

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    Shared by Sheila MacNeill during Jan 25 web conference with Dragan Gasevic -- short briefing paper on the Sematic Web, linked and open data from JISC CETIS (PDF)
Tony Searl

Singapore Picks a Winner in Analytics - Tom Davenport - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

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    Singapore's government has also provided substantial support for the Living Analytics Research Centre. The Centre, a research partnership between Carnegie Mellon and Singapore Management University, "seeks to make Singapore one of the world's premier locations for the development and applied use of real-time consumer and social analytics, as well as one of the world's leading centres for computational social science related R&D and education."
Tony Searl

Living Analytics Research Centre - 2 views

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    conduct research on behavioural and social network analytics and behavioural experiments so as to discover and harness the laws of information network evolution for networks of people, organisations
Vanessa Vaile

Daily Kos: UPDATED: The HB Gary Email That Should Concern Us All - 0 views

  • According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HBGary emails, it involves creating an army of sockpuppets, with sophisticated "persona management" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidentally cross-contaminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online.
  • Using the assigned social media accounts we can automate the posting of content that is relevant to the persona.
  •  There are a variety of social media tricks we can use to add a level of realness to all fictitious personas
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  • Really? I thought. How do we know if those are real people? Twitter has to be the easiest thing to fake and to automate with retweets and 180 characrer max sentences. To the extent that the propaganda technique known as "Bandwagon" is an effective form of persuasion, which it definitely is, the ability for a few people to infiltrate a blog or social media site and appear to be many people, all taking one position in a debate, all agreeing, for example, that so and so is not credible, or a crook, is an incredibly powerful weapon.
  • I believe there are many people though who will base their judgment on rumors and mob attacks. And for those people, a fake mob can be really effective.
Tony Searl

Gates and Pearson Foundations to Offer Online Courses - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • said the new course materials could provide an important link between the common core standards and the standardized tests that two consortia of states are writing
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      oh noes
  • We could get a one size fits all.”
    • Tony Searl
       
      no shit sherlock
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    The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest philanthropy, and the foundation associated with Pearson, the giant textbook and school technology company, announced a partnership on Wednesday to create online reading and math courses aligned with the new academic standards that some 40 states have adopted in recent months.
Tony Searl

lak12 - Week4_Semantic_Data - 2 views

  • the learner model should be updated rapidly to reflect near real-time learner success and activity so that decisions are not made on out-dated models
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    "there is greater inter-disciplinary discussion occurring in analytics than what is generally found in an established domain". A key motivator for my interest. Co-operation is a must.
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