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I'm very proud to announce "Behind the Banner", a visualization I've been producing with Jer Thorp and his team from The Office for Creative Research, underwritten by Adobe as part of the upcoming CM Summit next week. You can read more about it in this release, but the real story of this project starts with…
Two computer scientists have been selected to create projects on the intersections of tech and hip hop, historic newspapers and classic illustrations.
"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you." -Woody Hayes There's no doubt that we lucked out when it came to the formation of our Solar System. Image credit: Michael Pidwirny, retrieved from cosmosportal.org.
Because natural disasters disproportionately affect underserved communities, middle school students in Savannah, Ga., are learning to use mapping tools to design infrastructure changes that could protect their neighborhoods.
The word ‘data’ has Latin origins. As Jer Thorp writes in Living in Data: “It first appeared in the English language on loan from Latin, where it meant “a thing given, a gift delivered or sent”. In its early usage, the giver of data was the almighty god and hence, it carried a “particular strength of truth”.