Managing the Unimaginable
What would happen if we were to develop a mindset of embracing the uncertainties (both present and emerging) that working with massive data sets entails rather than seeing them as problems to be solved? This question was the impetus for a paper which Theresa Anderson and Simon Buckingham Shum presented at the 11th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). In keeping with the Symposium theme -- Imp...
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Creative contemplation meets data science in CICcalm
As we settled into our new home on the UTS Blackfriars campus, the team discovered a shared desire to make space for contemplation and calm in the midst of very busy lives. And so CICcalm was born:
a room set aside for quick creative and contemplative breaks from set work routines. It has become our go-to space for individual and collective meditation
Inspiration for the current layout of CICcalm was drawn from Theresa Anderson's ongoing installation work at overseas conferences where partici...
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Welcome
Cooking data with care in MDSI
“Raw data is both an oxymoron and a bad idea; to the contrary, data should be cooked with care.” (Bowker, 2005)
Inspired by the fantastic opening provided in the public seminar presented by Geof Bowker (University of California at Irvine) about thinking critically and ethically about the intersection of Data Science, Information Infrastructure and Society, MDSI students enrolled in the mid-year intake of the program participated in a ‘serious game’ as part of their Self-tracking Data Project.
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July 30: Paul Culmsee – Mapping for multistakeholder dialogue and intellectual capital
We are delighted to announce that Paul Culmsee from Seven Sigma will be visiting UTS on Thurs 30 and Fri 31 July, running two interactive workshops in the Business School on the Thursday, as described in the flyers below, with some scope for follow-up meetings on the Friday:
Glyma: A New Innovation in Harnessing Intellectual Capital
Innovating with Visual Sensemaking Tools in Complex, Transdisciplinary Problems
Paul will be introducing the rationale behind the design of an open source web ap...
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July 27: Geof Bowker – Big Data . . . Vibrations
We are delighted to announce that Geof Bowker (University of California at Irvine) will spend 27 July at CIC, including giving this seminar which is open to all staff and students interested in thinking critically and ethically about the intersection of Data Science, Information Infrastructure and Society.
CIC Seminar, Mon 27 July, 2-3.30pm, UTS Building 11, Broadway: CB11:05:101
Abstract: There is no such thing as raw data — by the time it has been suitably cooked into a classifica...
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July 17: Gardner Campbell – From the Memex to the World Wide Mind
Gardner Campbell (Virginia Commonwealth University Vice-Provost for Learning Innovation & Student Success) will be spending the day at CIC on Fri 17th July, with a seminar 2.30-4pm, CB08.08.002.
Gardner brings an uncommon depth and breadth of thinking about the future of the university and the role of technology — check out his often provocative blog for a flavour.
Following a morning in CIC, Gardner will run a seminar which calls us back to some of the founding vision of computing pi...
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Academic Writing Analytics update
CIC has been developing AWA (Academic Writing Analytics), a rapid feedback tool for students at all levels (1st years to PhD) to help them reflect on how effectively they are using academic language in their writing. The Australian recently covered this development in a story about UTS (June 3rd).
This tool currently makes use of a natural language parser in development at Xerox research labs, with whom we have a longstanding research collaboration. This will be combined with other open source ...
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Social Learning Analytics outside the LMS
Just kicking off, a project funded by Australian OLT, led by Kirsty Kitto and her team at QUT. This builds on earlier work conceiving Social Learning Analytics [1-2] and work by QUT's Mandy Lupton who is developing the concept of teaching+learning in the wild. This has led to the first release of the Connected Learning Analytics (CLA) Toolkit:
“The CLA toolkit helps students and teachers to harvest data about their activities in standard social media environments, and then provide immediate fee...
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