McKelvey, F., Frizzera, L. (2019) The Political Narrative of YouTube Recommendation System: 2018 Ontario election. Canadian Communication Association (CCA). Vancouver, Canada. Visualization available here: http://labs.fluxo.art.br/rankflow/ Check our findings for the Brazilian Federal Elections: http://luciano.fluxo.art.br/algorithms-and-disinformation-the-role-of-youtube-in-the-brazilian-political-scene/ Social media is both an important…
Illusions of Visualization: What the Form is Hiding from You?
I have always experienced and pursued journalism beyond the written text that fills the newspaper’s columns. The text, the written language, that dominates the pages is only part of the story. The shape and form, empty spaces, size and hierarchical…
Visualizing of Human Spatial Movements From a Personal Perspective
Leibniz (1646-1716) once observed that all things “are, like ‘rivers, in a perpetual flux; small parts enter and leave them continually,’” suggesting that “‘the very substance of things’ consists in ‘their force to act and be acted upon’” (as cited…
Effectiveness and Efficiency of Time Representation of Human Spatial Movement on Geographic Maps
At first glance, human spatial flow seems to be chaotic: endless vectors of movement coming and going to an infinite number of places. Movements are transitory and temporary, which makes difficult to understand and analyze their nature and rules. But…
Exploring Personal Spatial Movement Visualizations
Leibniz (1646-1716) once observed that all things “are, like ‘rivers, in a perpetual flux; small parts enter and leave them continually,’” suggesting that “‘the very substance of things’ consists in ‘their force to act and be acted upon’” (as cited…
Workflow Mutation: From Tedious to Fun
The process of modeling workflows for any purposes might be seen as a laborious and tedious experience. Even fun projects, like the development of mobile applications or video games, depending on tools with very formal structural representation, usually not user-friendly,…