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Showing You the World: Data Visualization

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Caitlin McDonald

Data visualization isn’t something most people get all het up about. This is a pity, though, because we live in a world that is swimming in a sea of data.  More than at any time in the past, massive amounts of information are being collected, sorted, collated and used.  Where is it getting used?  Governments, … Continue reading →

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Proceed with Caution: the Dark Side of Data

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Caitlin McDonald

So recently my life is full of tech talks. First I went to this Girl Geek Dinners Social and Economic Development Through Technology series of talks. I was a little nervous about going, actually, because it’s geared towards women in technology and I thought I might not be enough of a programmer to fit in. … Continue reading →

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Anthropological Anxieties

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Caitlin McDonald

I’ve been watching Grayson Perry’s series on the English class boundaries around ‘taste’ (titled helpfully ‘In the Best Possible Taste’). His research was ultimately aimed towards creating six large tapestries, but as the techniques he’s using to do the research are largely anthropological in nature it brought home for me again some of the anxieties … Continue reading →

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Offloading Memory

Posted on August 13, 2011 by Caitlin McDonald

A few weeks ago, an article in Science on how search engines are changing the nature of memory became very popular in the news.  Specifically, if people know that they can easily look answers up instead of remembering them by rote, their recall of the answers themselves declines while their memory of where to find … Continue reading →

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The Calm After the Storm

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Caitlin McDonald

Riots raged around London the past few days, and while things seem to have calmed for this city, violence and disorder appears to be escalating in other English cities.  I hope that today will be the tipping point around the country and that things will begin to return to normal. No rioting affected my part … Continue reading →

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My New Hat

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Caitlin McDonald

I have triumphantly returned from Exeter with my most excellent trophy of a genuine PhD hat.  It is a very charming hat modeled on a sort of Henry VIII style, with a squashy velvet top and a round brim with a piece of wide ribbon tied around it.  Topping it all off is a bit … Continue reading →

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Much Ado

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Caitlin McDonald

It’ll be a week or so before I blog again.  My PhD graduation is coming up next week, family and friends are flying in, and there is a lot of celebrating to do!  So I will leave you (for a time) with these reflections on my very favorite play. The first time I saw the … Continue reading →

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Computing Anthropology

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Caitlin McDonald

Lately I’ve been spending a LOT of time at the computer. The vast majority of my life, in work and entertainment, has revolved around this screen recently, in exactly those kinds of scenarios that writers like Faranheit 451 and Brave New World and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? got all worked up about. This … Continue reading →

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A Return to Wodehousian Sensibilities

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Caitlin McDonald

I entered a writing contest, but alas didn’t win this time. Here’s what I said: In my travels about London I’ve noticed a return to Wodehousian sensibilities in gentlemen’s attire of which I am very much in favour. Do we not pine for that imagined past when all that stood between us and happiness was … Continue reading →

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Independence Day in London

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Caitlin McDonald

I don’t know how many of you have ever celebrated your nation’s independence day in the capital city of the nation from which your own nation emancipated itself (stick with it, it makes sense!) but it definitely feels a bit funny. This isn’t the first 4th of July I’ve spent in England, but for some … Continue reading →

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