Author: cjanuska
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How to decide?
What’s the decision tree for making decisions? What’s the best way to know what to do and how to act? Who is a decision maker? Here’s my first attempt at my best practices for making good decisions, no matter what the topic. This decision maker outlines my process as well as what I think are…
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Great events draw great attention
I am excited to learn that a photo I took at Eyeo Festival is being considered for use in an upcoming indie magazine. The magazine focuses on the best recent conferences and events. I love to document events I attend. I’m glad Eyeo, my favorite, will be included. Documentation of what and where we have…
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Find the ballerina—infographic easter egg
Noticed on the flight instruction card for my recent Sun Country flight: a ballerina is the first person pictured in the brace instructions. She appears nowhere else in the flight instructions. Whoever created this tidbit made my flight.
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The importance of being with like-minded visionaries
It’s been a month since Eyeo Festival and I have been reflecting on the importance of attending events like this. Many speakers and attendees felt Eyeo was something special, something different from other conferences. Paola Antonelli opened the first night expressing how much she had wanted to attend Eyeo, to attend something unique, something…
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Eyeo workshops
Eyeo Festival 2012 was amazing. The Text & Archive workshop gave me a chance to stretch my skills and do some ’70s-style programming (“This is old magic.”) as well as see new ways of working with large text files. I was inspired by Mark Hanson’s New York Times Lobby installation and by Jer Thorp’s text…
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Eyeo Attendees Visualization
I enjoyed finding myself on this visualization of Eyeo Festival Attendees. Let the festival begin! Visualization by Jeff Johnston .
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An anti-infographic
As part of our homework for the Eyeo Festival’s Text Archive and Character workshop we had to download Processing, Python, R, and R Studio. This proved easy enough. Next, we had some readings about using text as data. One of the readings, Lee Thayer’s Deconstructing Information, reminded me of all the deconstructionism I read at Yale. These always elicit…
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What are you feeling? Subway
How can we gauge interest or other emotions when we encounter public art, events, or other chance happenings? I like the idea of pairing an emotional gauge with our environment and measuring the emotional impact of the people who encounter art or beauty or drama or something interesting. The intangible yet real benefits could more…
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Bubble Wrap Schedule
Every day we have to understand what 21 creative staff are doing with their time. Are they busy? Who is open? Above, my prototype for better visualizing my department’s daily workload: staple a piece of bubble wrap on top of a grid with each staff member’s name and hour slot. For each hour scheduled, the…
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Visualizing my week
I posted on Visualizing.org a past visualization I created to understand the impact of just how many meetings I am in during the week. This visualization helps me see the cyclical nature of client communications per week, as well as the amount of time I spend with others. Luckily, I’m an extrovert. Meeting and talking…