December 2020 - Areas

• Making tools-for-thought: providing context while reading
• Managing the COVID-19 data flood:
  • Maintaining Covid Commitment with Alex Rich
  • Visualizing data source discrepancies (Unnamed)

December 2020 - Projects

• Used nodes.io for a WebGL Scatterplot
• Open Source
  • Enhancement to StorybookJS: Object explorer knob
  • Maintenance for tiingo-python (API / migrate from Travis to Github Actions)
• para.areas.erging: completed 200km for Concept2 Holiday Challenge

Implementation Details

• Thread of tools for tracking visual change over time

  Thread of tools for watching changes to a creative object (text, code, picture) over time - do you know of any others, or have an idea for something else you'd like to watch evolve? https://t.co/xgL0nMeUxL

  — Cameron Yick (@hydrosquall) December 24, 2020

• On para.resources.tools-for-thought

  • Last month: rewatched / annotated the 9 Bret Victor videos on Youtube (convert notes to digital)
    • Omar's's Geokit
    • Dynamicland demos on hackster.io
    • Annotated Magic Ink
  • Following CodexEditor's project updates
  • Looking at Digital Humanities annotation (Pelagios Network) / Rainer Simon's work
  • On communication:
    • Informal notes on interhackt Highlight Reel. H/t Harry Vangberg for linking to the projects in his Skrift UI Ideas thread.
      • Wikipedia Browser | writeup
        • Taming hairballs
      • ConVRSation demo video
        • Would this work in 2d? How might it look to have a live conversation inside of a mindmap?
        • Use spatial memory to track threads
      • Hyperpoems
        • Hyperpoem :: knowledge graph as bonsai :: tree or constellation : night sky
        • Herman Hesse's "Glass beads" game for structured riffing on ideas
      • Sidebubb
        • Whimsical interactions (bar charts racing) + collapsible threads
      • Collaborativity
        • Visualize chat where nodes are messages or topics, view traditional thread next to a network graph representation
        • https://twitter.com/interhackt_/status/1342317587481313280?s=20
        • Related to chat feature: when citing text, link back to original reply with exact text location: https://twitter.com/ichverstehe/status/1343168580377075712?s=20
          • On contextual citations: Tom Critchlow's Quotebacks
            • https://tomcritchlow.com/2020/06/09/quotebacks/
              • ... led to Hypothes.is, Worldbrain Memex, annotation corner of the web, etc

• Serendipity via Juxtaposition

  • Grant Custer's twitter question

    • What might we do if we had a real time visualization of what we were building, as we write programs?
      • https://twitter.com/GrantCuster/status/1340378264410447874?s=20
      • "Code as Cities": https://twitter.com/GrantCuster/status/1340748139418906625?s=20

  • Devon Zuegel's Timeline idea: https://twitter.com/devonzuegel/status/1341261611282038784?s=20

    • "What if history books had a timeline on every page that showed dots with the occurence of events that happened on that page"?

  • Mark Twain's Memory game (via browsing Manuel Lima's "Book of Trees")

    • Not storing dates for the sake of memorization, but to have a scaffold upon which to drape other ideas
    • People learn history 1 "domain" at a type, and don't often realize when events from different civilizations were contemporary (e.g. Spanish history vs US history)
      • Related: Art exhibit organized by time, rather than artist or subject (via Devon)
      • https://twitter.com/juliagalef/status/1343620760078848001?s=20

  • "Zwicky boxes" / morphological boxes

    • https://superorganizers.every.to/p/use-a-zwicky-box-to-solve-hard-problems

  • Creativity via constraints / unexpected juxtaposition

    • Suite magnetic poetry games
      • digitized: frij.io

  • Many views of the same thing

    • The "multigraph" react component