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Data Visualization for Humanities

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Rob Farrow

Here are my notes from today’s OU seminar which offers a survey of major online humanities datasets and some of the tools available for visualising them. Speakers: Dr Elton Barker (Classical Studies Department, The Open University, and Alexander von Humboldt … Continue reading →

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What is Open Access?

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Rob Farrow

I just had to share this video from PhD Comics.  A really neat introduction to the issues surrounding access to scientific literature…

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OERHub: Looking Forward

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Rob Farrow

One of the things that we need to do as the OER Hub project progresses is keep track of the various research and dissemination activities that we are involved with over the two year period.  I have a couple of … Continue reading →

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Data Visualization Tools

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Rob Farrow

There’s a nice list of data visualization tools available on netmagazine.  I think it would be really interesting to experiment with a few of these in the context of the redevelopment of the OLnet Evidence Hub in the OER Hub … Continue reading →

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Visual & Philosophical Pedagogy

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Rob Farrow

Here are the slides from my presentation at the Third Visual Learning Conference.

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Scoop.It Activity!

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Rob Farrow

My Scoop.It activity has gone through the roof in the last 48 hours. I would normally expect maybe half a dozen rescoops in a week and I’ve had forty in the last two days. Here are just the email notifications … Continue reading →

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OER Hub Visualisations

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Rob Farrow

Just a first pass at creating infographic-style slides for a forthcoming report.  There were created with easel.ly using data from the OLnet OER Evidence Hub.   One is still missing at the moment… I’m interested in any feedback!

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Visualizing Philosophy

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Rob Farrow

Partly stemming from my recent exploration of OER visualization, I’ve started to take more of an interest in ways that philosophical ideas have been expressed visually.  Now, obviously many artworks are themselves the expression of philosophical or religious sentiment, and … Continue reading →

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Tools for Data Visualization

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Rob Farrow

I’ve been looking into different online visualization tools with a view to using the data collected by the OLnet project.  (I’m also building up an inspiration gallery on Pinterest.)  Here’s a provisional list with a few comments of my own. … Continue reading →

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From Philosophy to Blogging

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Rob Farrow

An interesting conversation between David Roberts (Grist), Andrew Sullivan (The Daily Beast), and Matthew Yglesias (Slate).  Organized and chaired by Andrew Light (Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy)

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