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Visualizing Women's Impact to History Through Data Visualization

Tableau

Kathleen VanDerAa March 7, 2024 - 10:47pm Kate VanDerAa Every March, we celebrate women who have educated us, inspired us, led us, and significantly impacted the direction of society during Women's History Month. Consider joining a Tableau Community Project and vizzing alongside others. Get all the details and learn how to participate.

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AI is coming for the laptop class

Recode by Vox

Generative AIs like Dall-E, Sora, or Midjourney are actively competing with human visual artists; theyve already noticeably reduced demand for freelance graphic design. the end result will be a model good enough to govern a robot in the real world. That is completely unheard of in human history.

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How 25 Awesome Twentysomethings Nailed It

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Went on to do what put them in the history books. Fortunately, history shows, and Nailing It reveals, inspiring examples of successful people who experienced delayed progress in their 20s, forced to take circuitous paths to their life callings, even overcoming tragic starts. The COVID pandemic turned young adulthood upside-down.

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Mexico’s cultural appropriation ban is off to a messy start

The Verge

Despite the long hours and creative details that their designs entail, the creations of Méndez and other artists in the community often go underappreciated. A section of the law stipulates that in cases where there’s a dispute, government bodies focused on culture and Indigenous communities will determine the resolution.

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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I saw for myself that history was unfolding in front of me. Before branching off to work as an independent producer, I worked for five years full time at CCTV government access television in Burlington, Vermont, and before that I worked with community radio and community television in college. My background is in community media.

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Welcome to Pine Point: A Multimedia Exploration of Nostalgia, History, and What it Means to be Human

Museum 2.0

Welcome to Pine Point is a kind of virtual museum exhibition about the town, told from the perspective of Michael Simons, an artist who grew up in the nearby town of Yellowknife and visited Pine Point as a boy. It is, in short, the best multimedia history project I've ever seen, and I wish more museums were pursuing projects like it.

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TikTok has a new CEO — now he has to deal with music labels, competing apps, and angry senators

The Verge

Mayer’s history of negotiating big deals and building relationships in Hollywood and Washington is arguably exactly what TikTok needs. That background gives Mayer a crucial understanding of how to work with other companies and top-tier talent, something TikTok needs as it battles fires with record labels and artists.

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