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Ivon Prefontaine's curator insight,
May 16, 8:48 PM
This looks like it might be a good only with a thorough read.
Julio Vizcarra's curator insight,
May 17, 10:30 AM
La investigación sobre educación abierta sigue adelante. Delete the scoop?
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Ken Morrison's comment,
April 8, 8:06 AM
Thank you. This was benefitial. Good reminders! I was at a confernce last week where the keynote showed a picture of concentrated orange juice. He said that our slides should be like the frozen concentrated. Potent and memorable and great at doing only one thing! Don't water it down. You could take that analogy many ways, but I liked it. If it isn't dense, you should have it be on separate slides.
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..."project titled "Geographies of the World's Knowledge" has just gone live on the new Oxford Internet Institute data visualisation site. In the project, we use a range of visualisation techniques to map literacy, Internet penetration, the world's newspapers, academic knowledge, Flickr, Wikipedia, and user-generated content indexed in Google".
“Geographies of the World’s Knowledge”, which you hold in your hands today, is a joint venture between Convoco and the Oxford Internet Institute. It reflects upon the distribution of the world’s knowledge, and discusses ten key words, from literacy to user-generated content.
Data, evaluated in an unprecedented way, shows the current distribution of knowledge in the different parts of the globe. Some of the implications of this are surprising, others are worrying. The maps visualise where the foci of knowledge – and, thus, the forces of innovation and economic growth – are located. Thanks to this scientific visualisation the most important factors involved can be grasped at a glance. It also provides evidence of a paradigm shift towards a new visual language in the domain of sciences..."