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Roland Gesthuizen

7 talks on mapping the human brain | TED Blog - 0 views

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    "Mapping the human brain is an endeavor several TED speakers have already begun embarking on. Here, a look at talks about how this mapping can take place - and why it's a scientific priority."
Roland Gesthuizen

Of serendipity, introverts and extroverts, social media and shooting the ambu... - 0 views

  • here’s been a lot of talk recently about introverts vs. extroverts and the fact that social media seem to stifle the participation of the not-so-socially-comfortable among us
  • blogs really do encourage slow thinking space and offer a place of choice for thinkers
  • blogging and perhaps to a lesser extent other social media interactions change the way we think and write, but I think for the better
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  • social media are all about the network you build and interact with. Regardless of its size
  • criticising social media for sidelining introverts is like shooting at the ambulance: it is targeting the channel not the person using it, it is misguided, over-simplified, not to mention the strait-jacketting it suggests, by putting all introverts and extroverts in one same bag
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    ".. there's been a lot of talk recently about introverts vs. extroverts and the fact that social media seem to stifle the participation of the not-so-socially-comfortable among us. In my sphere, it all started around a few articles on team building, creativity and introverts.."
Roland Gesthuizen

Color Survey Results | xkcd - 0 views

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    Thank you so much for all the help on the color survey.  Over five million colors were named across 222,500 user sessions.  If you never got around to taking it, it's too late to contribute any data, but if you want you can see how it worked and take it for fun here.
Roland Gesthuizen

Using Twitter Data to Map Emotions Geographically | Dan Zarrella - 0 views

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    "By combining the linguistic analysis systems of TweetPsych with Twitter's geo tagging data (which isn't great yet) and the Google Maps API, I was able to plot tweets on specific latitude and longitude codes based on their emotional content."
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