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Make Your Website Accessible to Visually Impaired People: Lasa knowledgebase

amandabees — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:49:09 -0400

Make Your Website Accessible to Visually Impaired People: Lasa knowledgebase:

10 Tips for making your website accessible to visually impaired people

"At first glance, this seems a little bit creepy"

amandabees — Tue, 14 May 2013 22:30:40 -0400

“At first glance, this seems a little bit creepy”

- At I/O, Google Will Be Tracking Things Like Noise Level And Air Quality With Hundreds Of Arduino-Based Sensors - TechCrunch (via iamdanw)

daniel sinker: OpenNews: Code Sprints do some spring cleaning on data

amandabees — Wed, 08 May 2013 09:15:53 -0400

daniel sinker: OpenNews: Code Sprints do some spring cleaning on data:

sinker:

Data is a buzzword nowadays. Whether it’s sifting Big Data to influence business, or the promise of Open Data to transform government, or Data Analytics winning elections, data is constantly in the news. But one thing that gets glossed over in all the buzz is that data is hard. Really,…

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amandabees — Wed, 08 May 2013 08:51:35 -0400

kqedscience: Who can catch which flu? (via information is...

amandabees — Wed, 01 May 2013 14:14:16 -0400

kqedscience:

Who can catch which flu?

(via information is beautiful)

Venn diagram.

Upcoming

amandabees — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:25:05 -0400

This week and next, NYC has three amazing civic technology events.

1. BetaNYC, Meet "Code for America, NYC"

Meet Code for America's NYC team! This Wed, we will hear from Code for America's 
fellows, who are working to improve the criminal justice system. We will hear 
from the brigade program who is building a better NY though weekly hacknights 
and NYC's BigApps. Additionally, we will hear from the accelerator team, who is 
looking to fund NYC's civic startups.

URL - http://www.meetup.com/betanyc/events/111395902/
Date - Wed, 1 May 2013
Time - 6:30 to 9:00
Location - OpenPlans, 148 Lafayette Street, Penthouse, New York, NY

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2. NYC BigApps Hackathon at Huffington Post

Win $10,000 and improve the lives of all New Yorkers. NYC BigApps is hosting a 
mega-hackathon, taking over two floors of the Huffington Post for teams 
competing in two competition tracks: Healthy Living and Lifelong Learning.

The NYC BigApps Healthy Living + Lifelong Learning Hackathon will feature 
$10,000 in cash prizes for winning teams that participate and demo apps that help:

a) New Yorkers to eat better, get in shape, live healthier lifestyles, and 
access healthcare resources or b) People of all ages connect to NYC's diverse 
learning opportunities and educational resources
Judges:
Tobias Peggs, CEO of Aviary.com
Liz Danzico, co-founder and chair of the School of Visual Arts' Interaction 
Design Program
Brad Weinberg, MD, co-founder of Blueprint Health
Romke de Haan, founder of Spreenkler Agency
Anuj Desai, VP of Market Development at NY eHealth
George Weiner, founder of Whole Whale and former CTO of DoSomething.org
McKenna Moreau, Executive Director of Coatue Foundation

URL - http://nycbigappshealthnlearninghackathon.eventbrite.com
Date & Time - Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 10:00 AM - Sunday, May 5, 2013 at 9:00 PM 
(EDT)
Location - Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003

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3. NYC BigApps Cleanweb Developer Day

Join us Saturday March 18th for a day-long developer day. Bring your team, 
refine your apps, and take advantage of the tech and sustainability experts we 
will have on hand to help you!

URL - http://nycbigappscleanwebdevelopday.eventbrite.com
Date & Time - Saturday, May 18, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 10:00 PM

election: Apply to be a Tumblr Fellow at the Personal Democracy...

amandabees — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:38:57 -0400

election:

Apply to be a Tumblr Fellow at the Personal Democracy Forum!

How is technology changing society, politics and civic life? Thats the question tackled every summer at the Personal Democracy Forum (PDF) conference at NYU. If it’s also a question that gets you excited, then you’ll be happy to know that Tumblr and PDF are teaming up to offer conference fellowships that cover the full registration costs and a meal with the team from Tumblr at PDF13. Ten applicants will be selected to attend this year’s conference on June 6-7.

We’re looking for people and organizations who are using technology and social media in innovative, meaningful ways to affect positive change. If that’s you, apply by taking a few minutes to fill out this brief form.

The deadline for applications is 6pm EST on Friday, April 26th, 2013. Winners will be notified the following week.

GIF created with permission from bindersfullofburgers.tumblr.com

Sometimes chart junk has a place.

The gun fighter: Profile of one of America's handful of gun violence researchers

amandabees — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:32:27 -0400

The gun fighter: Profile of one of America's handful of gun violence researchers:

jtotheizzoe:

More than 31,000 Americans were killed by firearms in 2011, yet there are fewer than 20 academics who study gun violence. Part of this is because lobby groups have inserted language into laws preventing organizations like the CDC from funding gun research. Regardless of one’s view on guns, that smells like an anti-science way of doing things to me.

Nature News has an awesome profile of one of these researchers: Meet Garen Wintemute

We’ve moved on from gun violence, but … this is related.

triciawang: The color of school closures via Carlyle Leach

amandabees — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:30:01 -0400

triciawang:

The color of school closures via Carlyle Leach

kenyatta: transpondster: Kowloon City, Hong Kong This explodes...

amandabees — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:14:21 -0400

kenyatta:

transpondster:

Kowloon City, Hong Kong

This explodes into a very large graphic for more detail

See also: photos from Kowloon Walled City.

Would be awesome if this was HTML. You can do this.

Summer internship

amandabees — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:23:26 -0400

Summertime Gig with Data News

We’ve got the perfect summer-break job for someone who digs data, has a nose for news and works fast.

It’s six weeks on WNYC’s Data News Team. Join us and you will:

Help WNYC cover breaking news, like our Hurricane Sandy work
Help reporters find and mine data for major stories
Help make maps, charts and web apps
Help brainstorm and build feature projects, like the Dogs of New York
Help the journalism we do in New York and New Jersey
Have a fun time with a fun team

Our ideal helper loves the challenge of finding information and data, and enjoys working with it once it’s in our hands. They’re creative, inquisitive and unafraid of new technologies.

The gig runs from mid-May through June, and pays $3,000 for the period. It’s geared for college students, especially those in a journalism program with data skillz or those in a computer science program with interests or experience in journalism.

It’s a limited-time offer, so act now! Apply with this quick form.

photo by Alex Howard / @digiphile

The Insanely Illustrated Guide To Your First TileMill Map | Data For Radicals

amandabees — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:05:53 -0400

The Insanely Illustrated Guide To Your First TileMill Map | Data For Radicals

govtoversight: nationalpriorities: How YOUR income tax dollar...

amandabees — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:16:44 -0400

govtoversight:

nationalpriorities:

How YOUR income tax dollar gets spent. Get your personalized tax receipt here.

Happy Tax Day. Here’s where your money goes.

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amandabees — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:25:17 -0400

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amandabees — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:51:08 -0400

jtotheizzoe: Everyone, Together This webpage is about one mile...

amandabees — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:39:45 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

Everyone, Together

This webpage is about one mile long (depending on your browser resolution). It has one figure for every person on Earth, color-coded by region.

It is a stunning way to put into scale the 7+ billion people on Earth. I’ve zoomed in and out and my mind is just sort of blown. I don’t know who you are, person #5,779,280,035, but you look great.

Previously: Killer interactive “scale of the universe” app because WHOOOOOA.

sunfoundation: Personal Space How much space each person has...

amandabees — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:14:57 -0400

sunfoundation:

Personal Space

How much space each person has in some of the world’s major cities

Learning code & sharing code

amandabees — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:21:59 -0400

babydatajournalism:

Idea for teaching:

If each student sets up a free GitHub account —

They can make Gists, like this:

https://gist.github.com/macloo/5363602

Could these be used for peer grading? Easy to share.

Once the student has a GitHub account, he/she can write code in Codepen (http://codepen.io/) and automatically save to Gist from there.

I’m probably going to introduce Git to students who are collaborating, even where they aren’t working with code.

I sincerely fail to understand why people continue to create...

amandabees — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:15:52 -0400

I sincerely fail to understand why people continue to create these as giant images, but they do.

kqedscience: The Big Squeeze: Can Cities Save The Earth? “Tim...

amandabees — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:11:40 -0400

kqedscience:

The Big Squeeze: Can Cities Save The Earth?

“Tim de Chant has a wonderfully creative blog called Per Square Mile, where he thinks about population density. Last summer, he decided to a little experiment. He asked himself: Suppose I could move everybody on Earth into a single city. How much space would that city occupy?

Would it cover half a continent? Or could we fit all humanity into New Jersey?”