Paperscape is a tool to visualise the arXiv, an open, online repository for scientific research papers. The Paperscape map currently includes all (non-withdrawn) papers from the arXiv and is updated daily
This is a big blog post, ( 25 pages). This paper was presented at the International Society for Systems Sciences Conference in Berlin August 2015. It will be published in the ISSS Journal as well. The following pages are a beginning of a concept and terminology that I have found useful in my own work…
Based at the University of Oxford, it uses statistics on everything from health and population growth to war, the environment, and energy to give insights into how living conditions are changing around the world.
The 1980s BBC Computer Literacy Project. It chronicled a decade of information technology and was a milestone in the history of computing in Britain. This site contains all 146 of the original Computer Literacy Project programmes plus 121 related programmes, broken down into 2,509 categorised, searchable clips.
This map does not depict actual data. Instead, it has been carefully designed to be a diagnostic tool for evaluating the robustness of individual color schemes. Full use of this tool will benefit your map designs because colors (even very similar colors) are easy to differentiate when they appear in a nicely ordered sequence (such as a legend). The task of differentiating the colors, however, becomes much harder when the patterns on the map are complex, such as in the lower left corner of the diagnostic map.
At the end of this post is an audacious idea about the present and future of software development. In the middle are points about mental models: how important and how difficult they are. But first, a…
A few weeks ago I gave a talk at JSConf Asia on using the Performance API. Although my talk was primarily about the API, I also talked a bit about tracing. People liked the explanation on tracing, so…
You can turn a folder within a Git repository into a brand new repository. If you create a new clone of the repository, you won't lose any of your Git history or changes when you split a folder into …
a site with texts and information about Shakespeare. Linda Alchin created the site. She is an author primarily specialising in history. Her career initially focussed on conventional techniques providing adult education. With the advent of the internet she moved on to distance learning projects...
The Theoi Project, a site exploring Greek mythology and the gods in classical literature and art. The aim of the project is to provide a comprehensive, free reference guide to the gods (theoi), spirits (daimones), fabulous creatures (theres) and heroes of ancient Greek mythology and religion.
Progressives are stumped. They are asking these questions over and over again on social media, TV, and radio: 1) Why don't Trump supporters turn against Trump even though he is doing things that hurt them? (like taking away their healthcare) 2) Why do Republicans hate the Affordable Care Act, and why are they so transparently…
Gillian Aldrich started growing vegetables in her backyard three years ago, and she's now working on planting a bed of hydrangeas, butterfly bushes, rose campion, and -- her favorite -- pale-pink hardy geraniums along one side of her property.
K. Petersen, R. Feldt, S. Mujtaba, und M. Mattsson. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, Seite 68--77. Swindon, UK, BCS Learning & Development Ltd., (2008)