Category Archives: Visualization

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Imagination and understanding

Posted on March 26, 2023 by x28

There is a connection between ‘imagine’ and ‘understand’ that I had not previously noticed: they are linked to ‘put in front of’ and ‘stand in front of’. Continue reading →

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Visualizing Complexity

Posted on February 5, 2023 by x28

While playing with a puzzle of a random network to be untangled, some thoughts about complex thinking may be sparked.
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Visualizing the “shoulders”

Posted on October 26, 2022 by x28

We are “standing on the shoulders of giants” who, in turn, were leveraging the work of those who have gone before. And if their incremental contributions are put into atomic, tweet-length sentences, we can visualize these relationships in impressive ways. Continue reading →

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Figure it out

Posted on March 25, 2022 by x28

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

Posted on December 5, 2021 by x28

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 →

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Visualizing my Twitter network

Posted on December 5, 2020 by x28

My Twitter network is more of a bubble than I thought.
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Foundations

Posted on November 11, 2019 by x28

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 the  transient wiki. Sensations from anywhere “We don’t just sense what we see, feel, … Continue reading →

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Traversing a network

Posted on November 1, 2019 by x28

Navigation in a hypertext is just text, right? Well, watch it visualized…
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Invisibility and cognition

Posted on July 22, 2019 by x28

What is cognition? Invisibility seems to play an important role.
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Zettelkasten visualized

Posted on June 21, 2019 by x28

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 →

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