Comments for Computers, Society, and Nature

Comment on UCDP GED and Open Data by MTM

MTM — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 18:11:37 +0000

Great concluding question! I am planning on asking a similar question for our discussion tomorrow 🙂

Comment on The UCDP Dataset: Achieving Information Democracy or Turning Horror into Bland Data? by sieber

sieber — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 20:52:36 +0000

An interesting challenge for open data, that it ultimately may do nothing to inform us or to prompt us to enacts substantive changes. In fact, the data may further anesthetize us to the horror, as you say. You might be interested in tweets referring to the recently held Open Government Conference in Mexico City, hashtagged #OGP15

Comment on Smart cities: who do they benefit? by sieber

sieber — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 16:47:33 +0000

Would be useful to more directly address the GIS/GIScience aspects of smart cities.

Comment on Modelling Vague Places – the meaning in a name by sieber

sieber — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 02:41:47 +0000

Love your example of vagueness!

Comment on Embracing Uncertainty? by BannerGrey

BannerGrey — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 01:58:54 +0000

This is a good link, Thanks Denasaur!!!!

Comment on Rundstrom 1995 by sieber

sieber — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 20:25:57 +0000

“GIScience still seems to be fundamentally incapable of helping us to view uncertainty positively”: Why or why not? You are conflating uncertainty with data models/structures, which may be one of the problems.

Comment on Haklay et al 2001 by sieber

sieber — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 02:50:13 +0000

Please place your pseudonym at the bottom of the post–thanks!

Comment on GIS: Tool or Science? by sieber

sieber — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 19:27:25 +0000

Thanks, BannerGrey, for being the first post of GEOG506 2015!

Comment on AR: The issues left behind by C_N_Cycles

C_N_Cycles — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:39:52 +0000

Correction: “Holodeck” in Star Trek example may not be truly considered AR. Instead think about the Holo-Graphic Doctor from Star Trek Voyager as AR.

Comment on How to handle scale? by Roshni

Roshni — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:46:24 +0000

I found fractals to be a very interesting way of thinking of the scale problem. wonder how much research goes into it!