Dr. Craig Anslow (Middlesex University) Large amounts of data are becoming increasingly available through open data repositories as well as companies and governments collecting data to improve decision making and…
IDC Seminar – What is an explanation?
Dr. Simon Attfield (Middlesex University) Explanations are important for investigations. For one thing, the stories that we construct to ‘make sense’ of evidence stand as explanations for that evidence. But…
IDC seminar: Show and Tell with the visitors from the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, the Netherlands
We will have a Show and Tell with the visitors from the School for Communication, Media and IT of the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, the Netherlands (one…
IDC Seminar: Provenance Information Promotes Fluidity And Rigor: Journalism Revisited
Dr. Simon Attfield (Middlesex University) In this talk I plan to revisit work I presented some years ago, but in a way that has relevance for issues of ‘provenance’ and…
IDC seminar (12 Jan) Big Data Visual Analytics: A User-Centric Approach
Dr. Remco Chang (Tufts University, USA) http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~remco/ Modern visualization systems often assume that the data can fit within the computer’s memory. With such an assumption, visualizations can quickly slice and…