DataJamming.com, inspired by the work I did with my former colleague Paul Blumenthal of the Sunlight Foundation, is a collection of graphics, thoughts, and ideas relating to the realm of publicly available data. — @kerryrm
January 19, 2012
January 19, 2012
November 15, 2011
November 15, 2011
November 1, 2011
August 14, 2011
July 15, 2011
July 9, 2011
Lazy Sunday LazyWeb Request
A thought: There are all these services that will dump personal data (location, exercise, activities, music prefs, “likes”, bookmarks, etc.) into your facebook or twitter stream, but nobody wants to see that crap there. It’s not (generally) social data. It’s useful to collect and aggregate, but only for the individual or perhaps a small circle of friends. Why isn’t there a place where this information can be dumped so it won’t clog the social networks? Like a personal informatics version of a Twitter/Facebook that has no social component but can be tied in to all the APIs easily. #lazyweb
June 13, 2011
Visualizar’11: Understanding Infrastructures
“Visualizar’11: Understanding Infrastructures aims to tackle the big questions around infrastructures — the big systems that support global processes such as the production and transportation of energy and water or the provision of global communication and mobility.”
I spoke at Visualizar ‘09, representing Sunlight Foundation. It was an interesting experience. Particularly the part where was I sharing a stage with folks like Aaron Koblin and Stamen.
June 12, 2011
WhereCampDC
I don’t generally write much here, preferring to post graphics and experiments, but I wanted to note that I recently attended WherecampDC. As an outsider at most technical conferences, unconferences, BarCamps, and Hack Days, I’m pretty use to that feeling of not quite fitting in and having very little to offer to the discussion/conversation. That said, this weekend’s WhereCampDC was refreshingly different. Sure, there were cliques, in-jokes and insanely brilliant technical people, but for whatever reason, there was a very welcoming atmosphere. Even the most technical discussion of the weekend (Mapnik!) was fascinating and friendly, if occasionally over my head. So, thanks to whomever organized WhereCampDC. I had a great time.
