Dissemination that Actually Works
For some reason this post, published in the summer, has found a home in the back of my head. The article is titled "YouTube Better at Funny Cat Videos Than Educational Content, Professors Say." Here …
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I watched an interview with Sunni Brown on the Duarte Blog yesterday. Really interesting piece on the use of graphic facilitation. The interview is a little dated in internet terms (5 months) but …
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Ok, so I've switched hosting services and I expect some issues might arise because of the move. Good news, is that this will ultimately lead to increased activity on this site. I'm looking forward …
*My opinion follows, treat it as such* If you have any interest in infographics and data visualization you probably know the names David McCandless and Hans Rosling. They are both data viz …
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Yesterday I had the honor of being interviewed for Evidence Soup's Interview Wednesday. The blog is for people who like evidence. If you visit this site, you probably fit that category. If you …
If you follow "me" online you probably know that I am a man of two blogs, this one and http://evalcentral.com. If you only follow Fresh Spectrum you probably think, boy this guy does not post very …
In my never ending quest to continuously overextend myself I have decided to make an attempt at connecting evaluation bloggers. My plan is to create a single site that integrates feeds from a number …
Creating fresh content is hard. Especially if you want it to be at least moderately good fresh content. But if you take a look at some of your favorite blogs, you'll probably find that they've …
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This clip is an animated lecture by Sociologist David Harvey. It makes for an interesting attempt at pulling in the audience for an online lecture. It's much more than just slides, which helps in …
USGS: Real Time Earthquake Data I have family in Ottawa so when last Wednesday's earthquake hit I immediately started looking for information. USGS offers real time data and maps that will beat …
The Atlantic: Mint.com Cites Racist Website in Anti-Immigrant Post In this article, the author critiques both the intent and the data quality of an infographic posted on Mint.com. FlowingData: Maps …
I wrote a post on Slideshare and Slidecasting for the AEA365 blog. You can read it here: http://aea365.org/blog/?p=965 …
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