Thanks for your interest. I have a database table filled from RSS files over time. When you need all titles…
Thanks for sharing this. I really need to do something like it. On your contents page, did you enter all…
Thank you Jenny for the link. Thank you Bruno and Lisa for the interesting connections which I had not thought…
Apologies on my comment: I meant the *left* brain is focused on dates, while the *right* on contexualization!
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Category Archives: Visualization
Figure it out
It is a wonderful book about understanding. There are rich, comprehensive, very plausible descriptions of how we understand by associations, with external representations, and through interactions.
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No fear of entangled links
If you don’t trust that seemingly chaotic maps can often be nicely disentangled, you can now try a new function in my Thought Condensr tool: a puzzle game. Continue reading
Visualizing my Twitter network
My Twitter network is more of a bubble than I thought.
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Foundations
I tried to understand Stephen Downes’s “Philosophical Foundations of Connectivism“. Here is what I excerpted and remixed: below, or better on an interactive map, or in theΒ transient wiki. Sensations from anywhere “We don’t just sense what we see, feel, … Continue reading
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Traversing a network
Navigation in a hypertext is just text, right? Well, watch it visualized…
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Invisibility and cognition
What is cognition? Invisibility seems to play an important role.
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Zettelkasten visualized
This is the famous Zettelkasten of the systems theorist Niklas Luhmann in a video from 1989. Now the University of Bielefeld has put it online. It is in German but it would be a pity if it missed a wider … Continue reading
Cmaps and the “Split Attention Effect”
The “Split Attention Effect” from Cognitive Load Theory demands that an annotation needs to be close to the item it refers to. I wonder if this is still true if the annotation can be reached by a saccadic eye movement.
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Zooming is overrated
Many people are enthusiastic about the ‘Big Picture’ attitude. Some even quote Dyson’s distinction between birds (who “fly high”) and frogs (who “live in the mud”).
Unflattening
The gem of Sousanis’ book “Unflattening” was that it does a great job explaining why the right hemisphere mode (“all-at-once”) lives from relations: Basically, it argues that the eye is “dancing and darting”, i.e. by its saccadic motion (palpation by means of the gaze) it captures only small fragments at a time, and it is our imagination that needs to combine them into vision.
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Thanks! I do love having a system.