Data Kitchen: A data visualization project powered by Pharo. Feedback welcomed.
Hi, In my effort to more create more meaningful computer mediated experiences for me and other and to use Pharo as a medium for that I have proposed the following project: --- - Name: Data Kitchen: Frictionless data, moldable tools, pocket infrastructures & permanent workshops for community empowerment - url: https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/data/entries/data-kitchen-frictionle... --- It combines the ideas of moldable tools, agile visualization in this community with some of other like frictionless data, by Open Knowledge Foundation and what I call "pocket infrastructures". Any feedback is welcomed. You can make it here in this list, but if you can made it on their platform, from a simple "heart" (+1) or drop me a line, it would be greatly appreciated and it will help to make more visible the project. Thanks, Offray
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 2:07 AM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <offray@riseup.net> wrote:
Hi,
In my effort to more create more meaningful computer mediated experiences for me and other and to use Pharo as a medium for that I have proposed the following project:
---
- Name: Data Kitchen: Frictionless data, moldable tools, pocket infrastructures & permanent workshops for community empowerment - url: https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/data/entries/data-kitchen-frictionle...
---
It combines the ideas of moldable tools, agile visualization in this community with some of other like frictionless data, by Open Knowledge Foundation and what I call "pocket infrastructures". Any feedback is welcomed. You can make it here in this list, but if you can made it on their platform, from a simple "heart" (+1) or drop me a line, it would be greatly appreciated and it will help to make more visible the project.
I really like the idea of using Pharo/ROASSAL for data viz especially in the context of southern countries (you talk about about Global South in your document). Having a portable environment is definitively a plus in the context of countries where the bandwidth is really limited. My lab is working with developing countries (including south-america) and we could exchange some private emails on how to sustain such a project. I'm interested by such tool in the context of health and/or crisis issues for example. Regards, -- Serge Stinckwich UCBN & UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC) Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk http://www.doesnotunderstand.org/
Hi Serge, [...] On 15/10/15 02:43, Serge Stinckwich wrote:
I really like the idea of using Pharo/ROASSAL for data viz especially in the context of southern countries (you talk about about Global South in your document). Having a portable environment is definitively a plus in the context of countries where the bandwidth is really limited.
Yes. That is the case here. Even is cities like Bogotá (Colombia), connectivity can be a pain in the arse. Having p2p or pocket solutions that can work off-line and then sync and be ran from a usb thumdrive is a context sensitive case. As I said in the call, most of the data visualization solutions have complicated, web based, multilayered infrastructures, while Pharo is a medium that goes the other way around: light, understandable, self contained. Hopefully we will made a case for a more diverse data visualization ecosystem that explore the opposite of the current data trend (big data, web based tools).
My lab is working with developing countries (including south-america) and we could exchange some private emails on how to sustain such a project. I'm interested by such tool in the context of health and/or crisis issues for example. Regards,
I plan to show more examples, the first related with political activism and twitter, and the second one (at the end of the call) on medicine information published by government agencies. We have worked on Open and community innovation in health issues. A draft document (wrote entirely on grafoscopio) on this experience can be found, in Spanish, on [1]. There I talk about digital infrastructures that support open/community innovation in health and specifically on data narratives and visualization (and even talk about IPython and grafoscopio). [1] http://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/piamed/doc/tip/Libro/libro.pdf So yes, I'm pretty interested in such talk and I have a shared interest with health information. Lets continue in private. Just give me these 6 days until News Challenge call is over (any help sharing the link at [2] meanwhile and with feedback is really appreciated). [2] https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/data/evaluation/data-kitchen-frictio... Thanks, Offray
Hi Serge, As I told you, once the call was over, I will be talking with you. So here we are :-). Our proposal didn't make it to the next round, but we're having this conversation thanks to the participation, which is already a big benefit. I would like to give you some deeper overview of the Data Kitchen project and where is "conceptually" located to zoom in in health related issues to let you see where collaboration could happen. The Data Kitchen project is part of the explorations I'm making in my doctoral studies. The "philosophical question" is "how we can change the digital artifacts that change us?". By "we" I'm talking about the community around a local hackerspace (in a broader sense), because this places are interesting "laboratories" of social appropriation of science and technology with dynamics which are different (at least in the Global South) of more institutionalized approaches (like the ones in universities). We're not constrained by curricula or titles, but also we have less resources and "official" dialog spaces, like happens with universities. So I think that hackerspaces are a key places for this kind of experiments and studies on other ways to make/appropriate knowledge (including health related issues). Data Kitchen, Data Week and other projects a wrote/plan, happens in our local hackerspace. The idea of interactive data narratives & visualizations started because after a local hackathon on 2013, I saw that the mobile "apps" approach was pretty limited. People become "data sensors" of mobile phones to feed some cloud infrastructure they don't own or understand. On the other hand, telling stories with data is more empowering: once you have understand how to tell your first story, you can tell another one without depending on software developers, app makers, external clouds, etc. And data story telling can be a bridge between the programming world and the oral/printing world. This were the reasons behind trying to make my own self-contained moldable tool and pocket infrastructure for data visualization and narratives. Because I have been related with civic hackers and/or hacktivits, one of the first places I'm trying to look is twitter and that is one of my primary concerns, and because I made a consultancy for the Colombian government on Open and Community Innovation on Health, this is a secondary one. A friend is working on data visualization to compare how much medicine info is released by public health agencies. I'll try to use Roassal on that visualization. My idea would be to implement data kitchen (this mix of tools, people and places) and use political discourse on Twitter and public medicine information as examples in our workshops and published memories and materials, but I would like to open the possibility to the people to bring their own data sets and questions to the table. Most of my studies and work has been auto-sponsored but is taking long time to get results because I need to pause research for work and viceversa, so I'm really interested in some ways to make this project and its associated research sustainable, so I will be waiting to hear your ideas and proposals. Thanks for your interest Serge, Bests, Offray On 15/10/15 02:43, Serge Stinckwich wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 2:07 AM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <offray@riseup.net> wrote:
Hi,
In my effort to more create more meaningful computer mediated experiences for me and other and to use Pharo as a medium for that I have proposed the following project:
---
- Name: Data Kitchen: Frictionless data, moldable tools, pocket infrastructures & permanent workshops for community empowerment - url: https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/data/entries/data-kitchen-frictionle...
---
It combines the ideas of moldable tools, agile visualization in this community with some of other like frictionless data, by Open Knowledge Foundation and what I call "pocket infrastructures". Any feedback is welcomed. You can make it here in this list, but if you can made it on their platform, from a simple "heart" (+1) or drop me a line, it would be greatly appreciated and it will help to make more visible the project. I really like the idea of using Pharo/ROASSAL for data viz especially in the context of southern countries (you talk about about Global South in your document). Having a portable environment is definitively a plus in the context of countries where the bandwidth is really limited. My lab is working with developing countries (including south-america) and we could exchange some private emails on how to sustain such a project. I'm interested by such tool in the context of health and/or crisis issues for example.
Regards,
Sorry... this was meant to be a private mail... Offray On 24/10/15 09:49, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote:
Hi Serge,
As I told you, once the call was over, I will be talking with you. So here we are :-). Our proposal didn't make it to the next round, but we're having this conversation thanks to the participation, which is already a big benefit.
I would like to give you some deeper overview of the Data Kitchen project and where is "conceptually" located to zoom in in health related issues to let you see where collaboration could happen.
The Data Kitchen project is part of the explorations I'm making in my doctoral studies. The "philosophical question" is "how we can change the digital artifacts that change us?". By "we" I'm talking about the community around a local hackerspace (in a broader sense), because this places are interesting "laboratories" of social appropriation of science and technology with dynamics which are different (at least in the Global South) of more institutionalized approaches (like the ones in universities). We're not constrained by curricula or titles, but also we have less resources and "official" dialog spaces, like happens with universities. So I think that hackerspaces are a key places for this kind of experiments and studies on other ways to make/appropriate knowledge (including health related issues). Data Kitchen, Data Week and other projects a wrote/plan, happens in our local hackerspace.
The idea of interactive data narratives & visualizations started because after a local hackathon on 2013, I saw that the mobile "apps" approach was pretty limited. People become "data sensors" of mobile phones to feed some cloud infrastructure they don't own or understand. On the other hand, telling stories with data is more empowering: once you have understand how to tell your first story, you can tell another one without depending on software developers, app makers, external clouds, etc. And data story telling can be a bridge between the programming world and the oral/printing world. This were the reasons behind trying to make my own self-contained moldable tool and pocket infrastructure for data visualization and narratives.
Because I have been related with civic hackers and/or hacktivits, one of the first places I'm trying to look is twitter and that is one of my primary concerns, and because I made a consultancy for the Colombian government on Open and Community Innovation on Health, this is a secondary one. A friend is working on data visualization to compare how much medicine info is released by public health agencies. I'll try to use Roassal on that visualization.
My idea would be to implement data kitchen (this mix of tools, people and places) and use political discourse on Twitter and public medicine information as examples in our workshops and published memories and materials, but I would like to open the possibility to the people to bring their own data sets and questions to the table.
Most of my studies and work has been auto-sponsored but is taking long time to get results because I need to pause research for work and viceversa, so I'm really interested in some ways to make this project and its associated research sustainable, so I will be waiting to hear your ideas and proposals.
Thanks for your interest Serge,
Bests,
Offray
On 15/10/15 02:43, Serge Stinckwich wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 2:07 AM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <offray@riseup.net> wrote:
Hi,
In my effort to more create more meaningful computer mediated experiences for me and other and to use Pharo as a medium for that I have proposed the following project:
---
- Name: Data Kitchen: Frictionless data, moldable tools, pocket infrastructures & permanent workshops for community empowerment - url: https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/data/entries/data-kitchen-frictionle...
---
It combines the ideas of moldable tools, agile visualization in this community with some of other like frictionless data, by Open Knowledge Foundation and what I call "pocket infrastructures". Any feedback is welcomed. You can make it here in this list, but if you can made it on their platform, from a simple "heart" (+1) or drop me a line, it would be greatly appreciated and it will help to make more visible the project. I really like the idea of using Pharo/ROASSAL for data viz especially in the context of southern countries (you talk about about Global South in your document). Having a portable environment is definitively a plus in the context of countries where the bandwidth is really limited. My lab is working with developing countries (including south-america) and we could exchange some private emails on how to sustain such a project. I'm interested by such tool in the context of health and/or crisis issues for example.
Regards,
Done! I did my bit! Give your heart guys! It takes 2 minutes. Alexandre -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.
On Oct 14, 2015, at 9:07 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <offray@riseup.net> wrote:
Hi,
In my effort to more create more meaningful computer mediated experiences for me and other and to use Pharo as a medium for that I have proposed the following project:
---
- Name: Data Kitchen: Frictionless data, moldable tools, pocket infrastructures & permanent workshops for community empowerment - url: https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/data/entries/data-kitchen-frictionle...
---
It combines the ideas of moldable tools, agile visualization in this community with some of other like frictionless data, by Open Knowledge Foundation and what I call "pocket infrastructures". Any feedback is welcomed. You can make it here in this list, but if you can made it on their platform, from a simple "heart" (+1) or drop me a line, it would be greatly appreciated and it will help to make more visible the project.
Thanks,
Offray
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On 15/10/15 08:57, Alexandre Bergel wrote:
Done! I did my bit!
Give your heart guys! It takes 2 minutes.
+1 (please share your love, only 2 minutes). BTW, I answered your comment. From yesterday to today the project went from almost 300 views to almost 500. Still away from views leaders, but nice to know this communities (Moose, Pharo, OKNF) can be so responsive. Cheers, Offray
participants (3)
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Alexandre Bergel -
Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas -
Serge Stinckwich