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{ Daily Archives } Monday, January 2008

Emails as a Game of Life?

Academic Productivity has another great post, this time on the work of Carolin Horn at the Dynamic Media Institute at the Massachusetts College of Art (a visual designer, BTW, not an information visualization specialist) and her coder Florian Jenett.
Using her Apple inbox as her petrie dish, her web page contains wonderful animations of species of [...]

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2008 01 21 brownstudy Oddments Comments (0)

Building models (info or economic) in your spare time

I enjoyed reading Hal Varian’s paper How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time. It succinctly describes how to build a theoretical model for how a system may work, from getting the idea, to testing it out, to improving it. It requires you to have a little ambition and a little less ego. [...]

2008 01 21 brownstudy Advice Comments (0)