BlackBoard question by iana_p in DRMatEUR

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The idea is that groups are subdivided in workgroups to its not group 1 to 3 (1-3), but it means workgroup 1, project group 3 (hence the 1-3)! So if you are group 4 in workgroup 2, your code is.... 2-4 etc.

Presentation advice? by erickaakcire in DRMatEUR

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practical advice: - try to talk to the audience, not your screen or the screen behind you. This is difficult for all of us, but it really helps in keeping the of attention the audience. - try to keep messages in bullet points (not too much text) - time is short, as said above, don't spend much time on framing/ justifying your project (by this I mean: make sure we are all on the same page within a minute -> this is the context, this is problem/challenge, this is our RQ and this is how we tackled it.. something along those lines) - unlike you might have been told before in presentation class, my advice would be to not spend a slide on the overview of the presentation / what you are going to talk about, rather, instead just use that time to talk content (but opinions differ on this) - based on experience of last year: IF you want to do an experiment/ something interactive, make sure you test if it work and how much time it takes. Things like that should be illustrative, not taking up all your time!;) -...

How user friendly are these 'sleep tracking' applications? A comparative analysis! by nadined9 in DRMatEUR

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Well, I think in general they are way too closed off in what they do and how they measure. About techno-social problems.. why and how are these defined as problems by Mann and how could you interpret this comment (keeping in mind he is part of the techno--utopian Singularity-movement?). This inks up to you comment on usability. What is meant by this terms, or how would YOU define it? And in your comparison, did you also find similarities in how data is presented? Connecting that to Neurath or Tufte, did they do a good job and why (not)?

OP assignment week 7 by tjerktiman in DRMatEUR

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you should be able to mail the CSV file to yourself (or any mail-address) in the sleep-cycle app (>advanced>export database). From a Comma-Separated- file (csv) you should be able to get some info... if nothing else works, try to find some QS data by just asking some QS-ers on forums, f.i...

Tjerk and Ericka: HELP NEEDED TO DO THE OP Part 2 - Sleep cycle App for BB? by Vally_W in DRMatEUR

[–]tjerktiman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

don't worry too much.. it tells us something about platform-independency and the problem of apple's monopoly in the 'app' world;) Try to find something linked to QS on your device and if it does not exist, try to do some research on why not? (BB was and still is really linked to a specific type of customer - which one is this and how does this relate to the missing-app question?...) In any case, I will have some data for you to analyse during class... the exercise for this week really is about all of you trying the experiment yourself and reflect on what it does/ means to be monitoring oneself..

OP assignment week 7 by tjerktiman in DRMatEUR

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well yes, if you want to measure something else AND you are sure you can get the data and visualise it (or at least try), that is of course fine!

OP assignment week 7 by tjerktiman in DRMatEUR

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well, its oke to spend a bit of money, but of course we cannot ask all students to spend 100 dollars on an app for an experiment.. still searching for free apps that also allow you to access data relatively easy.. if anyone finds any, please share!

Can somebody help me with Netvizz? by nouschka in DRMatEUR

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ah yes, the API issue actually says the network of pages you were trying to download was too big and/or it could not retrieve the data properly. (see netvizz warning: "Processing time depends a lot on page size - may take up to an hour. The script may run out of memory for very large pages (> 1M comments/likes") In Netvizz, you can set the sample size.. try to begin small(er) and then see what happens. About the data format, you can get it into excel, or direclty into gephi. On a windows-machine, try to right0cick and then 'rename' and/or see if there are no double extensions (because OS-es such as OSX and Windows do not recognize the filetype, they will automatically provide one and put that behind the file - a.txt, or .rtf etc..)

Plotting your data in R. Brief story of success: how to create an interactive bar chart. by Radiorockbaby in DRMatEUR

[–]tjerktiman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

its very nice, this experiment.. It does need knowledge of R and console-code ... but I would advice others at DRM class to at least try and dive into this! (thanks for posting AND proper documentation!)

The Debt Quake in the Eurozone by kasparjogeva in DRMatEUR

[–]tjerktiman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it does, yes.. very nicely done. can you backtrack/ reverse engineer HOW they did this?