Historian Shae Davidson's research interests include public policy and the relationship between culture and civil society. His publications range from articles on industrial history to absurdist poetry.
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Campaigning Word by Word
Two recent visualization projects posted on Many Eyes--an offshoot of IBM's Collaborative User Experience research group--use frequency diagrams to examine the tone and emphasis of recent political speeches. Presenting ...
Biomorphology and Water Sustainability
Andrew Parker, a zoology faculty member at the University of Sydney, built his career exploring ways to model optical technology on the evolutionary adaptations seen in the eyes of animals. He has turned his interest in ...
A Swarm of Words
Stanford University doctoral student Daniel Steinbock created TagCrowd to provide a simple, usercentric tool for examining word frequencies in websites or downloaded documents. The application turns the information into text ...
Cafe Utopia
The BeGood Cafe, founded in Tokyo in 1999, continues the long association between hot beverages and positive social change. Created to provide an open forum for exploring issues related to the environment and ...
Who’s Minding the Wood?
Good Wood Watch, a coalition of Canadian environmental groups, hopes to use the 2010 Winter Olympics as a model for large scale, sustainable construction. Building on Vancouver's pledge that the games ...
Qualitative Light
Amsterdam-based artist Joost van Santen created the online Museum of Light and Daylight to explore the relationship between light and landscape, and the ways in which the interaction of the two ...
Fallen Fruit
Blending the local food movement, cartographic art, and the idea of the public commons, Fallen Fruit invites participants to map the locations of fruit trees, creating an open project exploring conservation, ...
Going Public
Inspired by the same interface and knowledge-sharing model as Wikipedia, Wikileaks plans to provide an uncensorable, anonymous forum for sharing information about corrupt or immoral actions in the public realm. Wikileaks will make leaked ...
Celestial Economic Sphere
The Black Shoals Stock Planetarium uses real-time financial data to create an artificial skyscape. Stars represent listed companies, which flicker each time their stock is traded and move in the artificial universe ...
Reconstruction
Before starting a PhD program I worked for a couple of years as a museum director at a site dedicated to river life, agriculture, and the socio-political world of the mid nineteenth ...
Storysharing
The Digital Clubhouse Network grew out of a NASA-sponsored project exploring ways in which digital technology can be used to strengthen communities. The nonprofit group relies on two community incubators--one in ...
Playa Viva
Playa Viva, a resort on the Pacific coast of Mexico, provides models of green business development and ecotourism. The resort's founders realized that their connection to the area would benefit ...
Greening the GI Bill
Green Collar Vets connects veterans with job training and employment opportunities related to sustainable development and alternative energy. The group encourages participants to use GI Bill funding to enroll in vocational ...
Text Mapping
For the past decade, artist Peter Cho has explored the boundaries between text and images and the visualization of data. The collection of his work at TYPOTOPO focuses on the relationship between technology, data, ...
The New Ghost Map
In the 1850s, efforts to control a severe cholera outbreak in London led to the birth of modern medical geography. A careful examination of the effects of the disease, which included tracing its ...