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Data and Maps: Making Place Legible

NTEN

More specifically, what about mapped data? Creating display maps – in print or as digital images – is easier than ever before, and interactive, web-based mapping is all over the place, so to speak. Some of this is a general cognitive truth, but a good part of that comes from poorly designed maps.

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Jennifer Lee, Right-Brain Business Plan: How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

Last fall, I hosted a Have Fun, Do Good series where 12 bloggers shared how they have fun and do good. The first post is by Jennifer Lee, author of The Right-Brain Business Plan: A Creative, Visual Map for Success. I love seeing their visual plans (which look quite a bit like a Right-Brain Business Plan!)

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Meet the self-driving brains working with Volkswagen and Ford

The Verge

It’s a safety-critical product as much as it is a fun and exciting product that folks will really want to use. Or do you need more and better structured map data about the world around you, to make self-driving happen? It maps a route. They need people to use their maps, their interface, to understand how the cars operate.

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This week in AI: Amazon ‘enhances’ reviews with AI while Snap’s goes rogue

TechCrunch

Image Credits: Tel Aviv University This “semantic typography” paper is more fun, but also extremely clever. Elsewhere, we have some interesting cross-pollination between brain science and AI. Google is in the author list so you can bet they’re looking at how to use this. Well, it’s not quite this simple.

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The weird computers and claustrophobic hallways of Severance

The Verge

Severance takes place in a world where a new procedure — the titular severance — allows workers to split their lives in two after a little brain surgery. According to Hindle, series creator Dan Erickson once drew him a map of the labyrinth basement, which he describes as a “maze.”). It had to be pretty special and pretty fun.”.

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After we create a shared network based on individual’s knowledge and skills, we move to the organizational network maps. Participants create a poster of their networks, view other the network maps of others, and then do a debrief. It Isn’t Enough To Tell People About Best Practices: Hands-On, Brains-On.

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Say hello to Astro, Alexa on wheels

The Verge

It can map out your floor plan and obey commands to go to a specific room. In another similarity to a robot vacuum, the Astro will use these sensors to map out your home. Amazon says all of the processing and storage for these maps happens locally on the device and nothing is stored in the cloud. Can it avoid dog poop ?

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