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Category Archives: tools

cube-node

08.12.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Time Series Visualization with Cube

Today I stumbled upon Cube, an Open Source system for visualizing time series data. The system is based on Node.js, MongoDB and D3.js. The developers of the “half-baked but still tasty” tool describe Cube as: an open-source system for visualizing … Continue reading →

21.11.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Google Scholar Citations now free for all

When the Google Scholar team announced Google Scholar Citations back in July, everyone was kind of disappointed that they only offered very closed access to the service. You could check the h-index of Albert Einstein, but not create an own … Continue reading →

referenceme-1

07.11.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Reference.me aims at resetting professional networking

Last week Peter Sloep invited me to his trusted network on Reference.me (here is the official announcement). I was thinking “Oh, no. Not another Social Network thing…” Addicted to all the web-stuff out there, I chose to give it a … Continue reading →

twapperlyzerlytics

27.10.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Two new analysis tools for yourTwapperKeeper archives

We have been using TwapperKeeper in many of our Twitter-related analyses over the years and enjoyed using the Summarizr feature that Andy Powell built. After Twitter decided that TwapperKeeper had to shut down their API we switched to the great … Continue reading →

nytimes-learninganalytics

05.10.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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(Very nice) Interactive visualization from NY Times

Today George Siemens shared an interesting link in the Learning Analytics Google Group. He argues that interactive visualization can help increase end-user interest in data exploration If you have a look at what the designers at NY Times have created, … Continue reading →

social-media-people

21.07.2011
by Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Speaking at the CONCEDE UGC conference

Some weeks ago, I received the call for participation for the CONCEDE User-generated conference that deals with issues around the use of social media and UGC in the context of higher education and quality-related issues as well. In the CfP … Continue reading →