The First Draft

S2E1: Tableau is Excel for 2014

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Topics: Podcasting, the culture of Tableau, "doing" the tool vs. learning the domain, literacies, and jobs-to-be-done.

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Tableau Desktop | Tableau Software

  • Answer questions as fast as you can think of them with Desktop.

    • Elijah Meeks | Digital Humanities Specialist

    • Elijah's DH blog.

      • About DH at Stanford | Digital Humanities at Stanford

      • The current collective of Stanford digital humanists includes people in many of these organizations, and though we don't currently have a single institutional home, we are united in a desire both to support and to embody DH practice, theory, and training.

        • D3.js - Data-Driven Documents

        • D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG and CSS. D3's emphasis on web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern browsers without tying yourself to a proprietary framework, combining powerful visualization components and a data-driven approach to DOM manipulation.

          • emeeks/d3-carto-map · GitHub

          • d3.carto is a library for creating layer-based maps using D3. It allows you to easily make tile and vector maps that take advantage of D3's amazing geospatial functionality.

            • Explore - Vine

            • Vine is the best way to see and share life in motion. Create short, beautiful, looping videos in a simple and fun way for your friends and family to see.

              • Elijah Meeks - YouTube

              • Elijah's talks on YouTube.

                • Douglas Rushkoff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

                • Douglas Rushkoff (born 18 February 1961) is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist, and documentarian. He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, and his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems.

                  • Gephi - The Open Graph Viz Platform

                  • Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs.

                    • Social and Economic Networks: Models and Analysis | Coursera

                    • Learn how to model social and economic networks and their impact on human behavior. How do networks form, why do they exhibit certain patterns, and how does their structure impact diffusion, learning, and other behaviors? We will bring together models and techniques from economics, sociology, math, physics, statistics and computer science to answer these questions.

                      • i am, the scottbot irregular

                      • historian of science, a data enthusiast, and a juggler, and the scottbot irregular is my central webspace.

                        • The First Draft Podcast S1E5: Data Driven Pickup Artists

                        • Elijah Meeks, Jason Heppler, and Paul Zenke are joined by special guest Scott Weingart to discuss data science, Facebook's emotional contagion study, natural language processing, research ethics, computational social science, and social media literacy.

                          • Clay Christensen's Milkshake Marketing, HBS Working Knowledge

                          • The company then enlisted the help of one of Christensen's fellow researchers, who approached the situation by trying to deduce the "job" that customers were "hiring" a milkshake to do.

                            • Office Assistant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

                            • The Office Assistant was an intelligent user interface for Microsoft Office that assisted users by way of an interactive animated character, which interfaced with the Office help content.

                              • Thank you for listening -- @Elijah_Meeks, @jaheppler, @pfzenke.

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