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Archive of posts tagged Visualization

Debategraph in the Classroom

When Peter and I first set out to create Debategraph, one of our fondest hopes was that the tool might help to enrich the collaborative and visual learning experience for students in schools and universities. So it has been a joy for us this semester to be experimenting with Debategraph in classroom with Dr Sharon [...]

Visualizing Middle East Peace

The events in Israel and Gaza this year have prompted gloomy prognoses for the prospects for peace; a mood deepened by the mixed signals from the Israeli election and the latest developments with Iran. Lord Patten, writing for European Voice last month, struck a particularly bleak note: "However tough things looked in the past, I [...]

Obama: Making Sense of the World?

And so the kaleidoscope turns, and we see the world anew. Or do we? Barack Obama’s inauguration today as the 44th President of the United States of America, marks the end of a remarkable personal and national journey. Arrival at such a destination is a cause for global celebration. But as with all great journeys [...]

Towards Live Government…

The Independent’s mapping project, What Should Obama do Next? , is one of multiple initiatives appearing across the web linked to the Presidential inauguration of Barack Obama. As Jimmy observed in his blog on the Huffington Post, mastery of internet campaigning is not the same as delivering government via the web. So it has been [...]

What should Obama do Next? The Independent series launches…

In the build up to Obama’s inauguration on 20th January 2009, The Independent and Debategraph have teamed up to give the world a chance to map and explore what Obama should do next. Click here for the map. Over the next 10 weeks, Independent readers and the Debategraph team will develop a series of interrelated [...]

Introducing ESSENCE 2009…

ESSENCE is the world’s first global climate collective intelligence event—designed to bring together scientists, industrialists, campaigners and policy makers, and the emerging set of web-based sensemaking tools, to pool and deepen our understanding of the issues and options facing the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009. The event, starts online in January [...]

The Internet is a Brain

Sunny summer’s morning in Somerset, enjoying the juxtaposition of: Popular Science’s revelation of the first wiring diagrams of the cerebral cortex: Matthew Hurst’s brilliant blogosphere activation simulation / visualization from PdF2008: . And Jeff Stibel’s Harvard Business blog: The Internet is a Brain