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UN Refugee Agency – The Ukraine Refugee Situation: “The Operational Data Portal (ODP) was created in 2011 to enable UNHCR’s institutional responsibility to provide an information and data sharing platform to facilitate coordination of refugee emergencies. This was achieved using independent ‘situation views’ covering major emergencies such as the Syria situation or the Central African …
PC World: “Finding a good free backup solution is easier than you’d think. A host of companies offer free online backup or free backup software—and perhaps surprisingly, nearly all of them are quite competent. Of course these companies have ulterior motives. Their free versions usually only provide enough storage for essential data, or lack some …
strategy+business: “Hybrid and remote work are complicating many of the collaborative challenges that were present long before the pandemic arrived. We’ve been thinking a lot about teams lately. As more companies release formal policies around hybrid and remote work, leaders are telling us that remote work has made working together, or teaming, difficult and has …
In Peak Bloom – March 20th – June 2nd, 2019: “The second of ARTECHOUSE’s annual cherry blossom inspired installations, In Peak Bloom featured works by women artists and female-led art collectives. Working with a variety of interactive media, the artists featured in In Peak Bloom brought the cherry blossom’s symbolism to life in new ways, …
The New York Times: Some people love technology that the rest of us see as obsolete junk. [Not “obsolete junk.” Yes, I still have and use my Walkman, cassette player, CD player, iPod, and listen to hundreds of CDs and vinyl. Reminder / e-waste is real and please consider upcycling, donating or even selling old …
The Register: “AI software can help historians interpret and date ancient texts by reconstructing works destroyed over time, according to a new paper published in Nature. A team of computer scientists and experts in classical studies led by DeepMind and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice trained a transformer-based neural network to restore inscriptions written in …
MCDREEAMIE-MUSINGS – Human Factors, Presentation Skills – “We’ve all sat in those presentations. A speaker with a stream of slides full of text, monotonously reading them off as we read along. We’re so used to it we expect it. We accept it. We even consider it ‘learning’. As an educator I push against ‘death by …
Wonderful example of data journalism using tableau public via Tom Johnson: Toronto’s Best Friends: The City’s Most Popular Dog Breeds. See also WeRateDogs “not sure if you’ll believe this… but the dogs of 2021 were good again this year Produced by: Matt Nelson (WeRateDogs) and West Webb (Legacy Content) Edited by: Cole Diepholz (Legacy Content) …
iPhoneJD: “Almost exactly six years ago in 2016, when Apple’s flagship phone was the iPhone 6s, Apple introduced the iPhone SE. The 2016 version of the iPhone SE took most of the insides of the iPhone 6s (which has been introduced six months earlier) and put it in a smaller and cheaper device ($399 for …
“This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren’t aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. The software for this search engine is all custom-built, and all crawling and indexing is done in-house. This search engine …
Fast Company: “In a new global map based on the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellite data from 2017-2021, the mapping company Esri has created a detailed rendering of the current state of the planet that anyone can explore. In the past, land use mapping has been slow, because it’s done pixel-by-pixel and requires a long …
