#Review: Dataviz Gets Personal: Michelle Rial’s New Book, Maybe This Will Help, Feels Like a Hug From a Friend (With Charts!!)
▻https://nightingaledvs.com/review-dataviz-gets-personal-michelle-rials-new-book-maybe-this-will
If there’s one thing that the last 18 months have shown us, it’s that we are all Going Through Some Stuff. Maybe that’s dealing with..
#Review: “Data Visualization: Storytelling” on LinkedIn #learning
▻https://nightingaledvs.com/review-data-visualization-storytelling-on-linkedin-learning
After decades of dancing between a natural affinity for engineering and an insatiable obsession with visual aesthetics, I’ve recently landed in the professional field of..
#Review: “Data Visualization and Information #Design: Create a Visual Model,” a Domestika course by Federica Fragapane
▻https://nightingaledvs.com/review-data-visualization-and-information-design-create-a-visual-mod
If you are reading Nightingale, there is a chance you have just discovered the world of #Data_Visualization and information design. If that is the..
#Review : Data Vis Book Club
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Historically, I’ve been great at buying #books to stage my shelves, but less good at reading them. In 2021, I’ve made a conscious effort to..
#Review: Data + Diversity-Exploring the Data Visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois
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I identify as “new to data”. So, when I attended Tableau’s February Data + Diversity talk, I was totally sending out imposter syndrome vibes. In the..
#data_human #Data_Visualization #DuBois #Historic_Dataviz #webinar
REVIEW: Evergreen Data Academy
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Two years ago, I didn’t even know that #Data_Visualization was a thing. I had just started a new job where I was asked to..
#Community #personal_investment #reviews #skill_development #upskilling
#Review: Julie Mehretu, New #museum of American #Art
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We are all conglomerations of our influences, remembrances, and fascinations but few artists have assembled them on as vast a scale as Julie Mehretu. The..
#Snowden in the Labyrinth, by Jonathan Lethem | The New York Review of Books
▻https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/10/24/edward-snowden-labyrinth
#book #review #book_review #livre „Permanent Record”
Snowden’s book is straightforward, admirably so. He has taken the risk of assuming that his reader is interested not only in his “moment of vision” and the brazen act that earned his fame and notoriety, but also in the formation of his personality, and the slow growth of his understanding of technology, espionage, surveillance, and human rights. Despite his gifts at computer programming, he has no interest in persuading you that he’s unusual; quite the opposite.
Musk to review all of Tesla’s expenses in new cost cutting plan (ht...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/9072407
Musk to review all of Tesla’s expenses in new cost cutting plan
HN Discussion: ▻https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19949739 Posted by hef19898 (karma: 1779) Post stats: Points: 107 - Comments: 109 - 2019-05-18T21:12:05Z
#HackerNews #all #cost #cutting #expenses #musk #new #plan #review #teslas HackerNewsBot debug: Calculated post rank: 107 - Loop: 54 - Rank min: 100 - Author rank: 21
Peer Community in … – A free recommendation process of scientific preprints (and published articles) based on peer-reviews (photo credit : Martin Grandjean : A force-based network visualization)
▻https://peercommunityin.org
Présentation complète du projet PCI (création de « communautés de pairs » pour le « reviewing » des articles scientifiques publiés en accès ouvert)
The “Peer Community in” (PCI) is a non-profit scientific organization that aims to create specific communities of researchers reviewing and recommending, for free, unpublished preprints in their field (i.e. unpublished articles deposited on open online archives like arXiv.org and bioRxiv.org). To a lesser extent, they may also recommend articles already published in journals.
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#PCI #Peer_Community_in #open_publication #review #open_science #bien_public
Stablecoins in 2019 (Are we are not there yet ?)
▻https://hackernoon.com/stablecoins-in-2019-are-we-are-not-there-yet-1e5686eea203?source=rss----
Stablecoins in 2019 (Are we are not there yet ?)Traditional e-money still dominatesIn 2017 USDT (Tether USD) is no doubt an undeniable market dominant. A year later — 2018 there were a bit more than several dozen projects reported. As of 2019, there are now more than two hundred of them. Some projects out of the “first pack” have already shut down, some are for the time being are still only #news of intentions, but it can be safely said that at least hundreds of stablecoin projects are at different stages of development now.As for the stablecoins that are in production and live, those traded on the exchanges, there isn’t much to track as well. With the help of CoinMarketCap, I managed to find data on the 23 stablecoins so far. It will be easier to group the coins by the binding object and the (...)
LTO Network Review
▻https://hackernoon.com/lto-network-review-35a5cdc6044?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4
IntroductionThe purpose of this report is to cover the LTO Network.For those that have not heard about this project, it has received a fairly significant amount of buzz in the #cryptocurrency community as of late.In specific, its price trajectory since launch has been a significant source of attention since its launch as well.However, this report will not provide a price analysis. Instead, this report will seek to answer the following questions about the LTO Network:What are they?Who are they?What does it do?How does it do it?Can it work?Transparency/Disclosure and Background InformationMuch of the background information for LTO Network can be found on Messari.The link is provided below for convenience:LTO NetworkLTO Network submitted their information to be posted publicly on Messari via the (...)
Why this cryptocurrency may have a good future ahead of it
▻https://hackernoon.com/why-this-cryptocurrency-may-have-a-good-future-ahead-of-it-12cdd29db29d?
Stellar Lumens stands out from a lot of cryptocurrenciesStellar Lumens (XLM)This project really sets itself apart from many others, it functions as cryptocurrency as well as a development platform, in many ways it is similar to #ethereum, yet it is alot faster and cheaper, this allows applications and smart contract built on it’s contracts to operate at a faster speed and with almost no cost.Stellar Lumens (XLM) was developed by the co-founder of Ripple so it is no suprise that they are also similar, they both have ultra-fast transactions and extremely low fees.Here is why I believe Stellar has a great future:Transactions cost a fraction of 1 cent to complete which means that you can send money, execute smart contracts and run ICO’s with really low overhead costs. Imagine sending $1,000 to a (...)
Two Weeks on Matrix/Riot Short Review (▻https://lobste.rs/s/sxqf0p/t...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/7122039
Two Weeks on Matrix/Riot Short Review | #matrix #review #riot
By the #Light of the arrivals gate
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/02/by-the-light-of-the-arrivals-gate
For more than a decade, night-time arrivals at Gbessia International Airport in #Conakry, #Guinea, were greeted by dozens and sometimes hundreds of secondary school students studying in the parking lot. A foreign visitor’s bemusement would quickly evaporate, however, as they noticed that beyond the bright lights of the partially French-owned and operated airport, block after…
#CULTURE #documentary #education #Film #Future #infrastructure #Power #Review #Youth
#crime in #South_Africa
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/02/crime-in-south-africa
The cover and title of the journalist Don Pinnock’s Gang Town seem to promise a sensational tour of meth dens and children caught in the crossfire. Instead, the book patiently explains something far more grim: what happens when the legacy of South Africa’s 1950 Group Areas Act, and decades of impoverishing and alienating policies, meet an unprecedented increase in youth population. Pinnock, who […]
#CULTURE #Books #Cape_Town #criminology #gang_culture #Johannesburg #Literature #police #reviews
#crime in #South_Africa
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/02/crime-in-cape-town
The cover and title of the journalist Don Pinnock’s Gang Town seem to promise a sensational tour of meth dens and children caught in the crossfire. Instead, the book patiently explains something far more grim: what happens when the legacy of South Africa’s 1950 Group Areas Act, and decades of impoverishing and alienating policies, meet an unprecedented increase in youth population. Pinnock, who […]
#CULTURE #Books #Cape_Town #gang_culture #Literature #police #reviews
Gang Town’s focus on Cape Town’s longue durée corruption of the social fabric of working class communities (…) sketches a city that has repeatedly deformed and destroyed social institutions that would otherwise channel the natural rebellions of young people away from gangs, drug abuse and violence. In a particularly insightful passage Pinnocks describes how forced removals under the Group Areas Act ripped up “networks of streets, houses, corner shops and shebeens, but also social webs of kin, friendship
Power against Power
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/02/power-against-power
Jesus is coming. Jesus is here. Jesus is killed by local preachers worried about the drastic downturn in business. His arrival portends for their collection of tithes and offerings. The #Music video from 2012 for the eponymous Ghanaian band, Fokn Bois, unlike much of their other work unwinds at a slow tempo. Multiple narratives – […]
#CULTURE #Accra #Arts #Film #Ghana #highlife #hip_hop #nationalism #Nkrumah #Review
Made-in-China: The lives and times of Africans in Guangzhou
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/12/made-in-china-the-lives-and-times-of-africans-in-guangzhou
Guangzhou, in Southern #China, has a long tradition as a trading port. More recently, in the wake of the Chinese state’s aggressive foreign and trade policies to Africa, the city is also home to a growing community of migrants and businesspeople from that continent. The latter buy goods in bulk in Guangzhou to sell back […]
#CULTURE #Film #Ghuangzhou #Guangzhou_Dream_Factory #migration #Review
Inheritances of our fathers
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/12/inheritances-of-our-fathers
There’s #History, with a capital ‘H’ – the one you find written up, memorized and recited as facts, dates, inaugurations, wars, victims and statistics. And then there is the one in small caps – the history that gets under your skin: when great political systems are embodied in the tiny details of everyday life; when […]
#CULTURE #Apartheid #Books #Literature #memory #reviews #South_Africa
#Africa : Why Western Economists Get It Wrong
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/09/africa-why-western-economists-get-it-wrong
Development #economics as a field of study was formally launched in the 1950s by the Afro-Caribbean economist Arthur Lewis who, out of necessity, wanted to understand how his own country, Saint Lucia, could transform from an agro-based economy into a modern industrial state (later, in 1979, Lewis was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics […]
Getting beyond the usual South African reporting on “Africa”
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/09/getting-beyond-the-usual-south-african-reporting-on-africa
It is still not uncommon to hear South Africans say that they’re going on a business trip or holiday “in #Africa” – as if their own country lies on another continent. We could blame this attitude on our history. During Apartheid, #South_Africa was politically and socially isolated from the rest of the continent (South […]
#CULTURE #Books #Journalism #Literature #representation #reviews
The Roots of Africa’s Present Condition
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/12/the-roots-of-africas-present-condition
Today sees the relaunch of the famed #Review_of_African_Political_Economy, this time on the web. We are happy to report that we will partner with #ROAPE and its editor,.....
#ACADEMY_PAGE #African_Intellectuals #Intellect #Left_Politics
A book for George Clooney and college classrooms on #humanitarianism
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/11/a-book-for-george-clooney-and-college-classrooms-on-humanitarianism
In the world of transnational activism, there is a pre- and post-#Kony2012 era. In fact, #Kony2012 constituted a cathartic moment, a psychotic disturbance – both literally and figuratively – that unleashed.....
#CULTURE_PAGE #advocacy #Books #Celebrity #Literature #reviews
Borderlines : The tale of a state in limbo
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/09/borderlines-the-tale-of-limbo-state
Borderlines (2015) is #Michela_Wrong’s debut novel. Taking the perspective of a British narrator named Paula, it tells the tale of a newly-independent fictitious African nation named North Darra, which relapses into.....