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How can ordinary, static, unbiased data – ones and zeros, words, dates, clicks of a mouse – be harnessed to tell us something truly extraordinary?<\/p>\n
This week we take a look at data visualization – specifically, at two projects that are creating engaging and powerful interpretations of that data we interact with. Herdict.org<\/a>, the brainchild of our guest Jonathan Zittrain<\/a>, uses the power of the crowd to figure out when, where, and why the web is being filtered around the world. In her new exhibit at MIT<\/a>, our second guest, Judith Donath<\/a>, explores how our conversations on email and blogs might look if they manifested themselves in the real world, as works of art.<\/p>\n Listen: Play: CC-licensed music this week: How can ordinary, static, unbiased data – ones and zeros, words, dates, clicks of a mouse – be harnessed to tell us something truly extraordinary? This week we take a look at data visualization – specifically, at two projects that are creating engaging and powerful interpretations of that data we interact with. Herdict.org, the brainchild […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3742],"tags":[3687],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radioberkman","tag-censorship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3063,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/3063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nTake Herdict<\/a> for a spin.
\nCheck out the Open Net Initiative<\/a> that inspired Herdict.
\nFind out more about the Connections<\/a> exhibit – catch it at the MIT Museum between now and September 10, Building N51, 265 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. Open 10AM to 5PM daily.<\/p>\n
\nPodington Bear: “The Growly Song” & “The Squeaky Song”
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