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Category Archives: visualisation
Predicting the future success of researchers and their research…academic moneyball
A bit of a scary article on the LSE Impact blog. It is a piece about using various metrics to predict which academics will achieve future success, and also to predict which journal articles will be most successful. The idea … Continue reading
Posted in data and dataplay, future of sociology, infrastructures, metrics, university, visualisation
Tagged Academic moneyball, prediction, research
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A music timeline (using big data)
Flowing data have some information about the use of data to create historical music timelines. The above shows the consumption of music genre over time.
Posted in data and dataplay, music, visualisation, web cultures
Tagged big data, Music timeline
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Record Sleeve designs…Brian Cannon and Microdot
Britpop news recently posted a link to this talk from Brian Cannon of Microdot (which is an audio that includes images from the slides used). Brian Cannon was a record sleeve designed who was responsible for designing record sleeves of … Continue reading
Posted in music, visualisation
Tagged album covers, album sleeves, brian cannon, microdot, oasis, record covers, record sleeves, Suede, super furry animals, verve
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Geodemographics of the super rich
Roger Burrows has written a piece on the geodemographics of the super rich for the new Discover Society magazine. This is an early publication from a really important project on the super rich.
Posted in data and dataplay, infrastructures, metrics, visualisation
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Big Data & Society
The new open access journal Big Data & Society is getting closer to publication. It’s edited by Evelyn Ruppert. It now has a blog/website which is now live. It contains some further information about the journal, with more to follow … Continue reading
Posted in data and dataplay, metrics, visualisation, web cultures
Tagged big data, journal, society
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Louise Amoore’s The Politics of Possibility
There is some news about Louise Amoore’s much anticipated book The Politics of Possibility on Stuart Elden’s Progressive Geographies blog. There is also a link to a preview of the introductory chapter. The book looks excellent. I’ve used Louise’s … Continue reading
Posted in cultural theory, infrastructures, metrics, mobile devices, objects, software, space, visualisation
Tagged book, Louise amoore, politics of possibility
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Sheffield sound maps
News of an art exhibition using recorded sounds captured in Sheffield. This piece links into other literature on the connections between urban processes and soundscapes. With the soundscape being a product of the different parts of the city. My colleague … Continue reading
Deborah Lupton reviews Richard Rogers’ Digital Methods
Deborah Lupton has reviewed Richard Rogers’ new book Digital Methods for Information, Communication & Society.
Posted in data and dataplay, future of sociology, metrics, software, visualisation, web cultures
Tagged book, Deborah Lupton, Digital methods, review, Richard Rogers
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