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Finally our book is published and ready for free download (Open access)
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7862-8/hardware-and-eco-feminist-art/
Thanks so much to all the people, communities and networks that helped us to do this!
#feministhardware
#transfeministhacking
#art
#Permacomputing
#degrowth
#artbasedresearch
#fwf_peek
oh my god this ad from Zohran Mamdani... https://www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-see-this-mamdani-ad/
I'm literally crying.
I wasn't planning to post anything today. I dislike working and writing on weekends in general, but this was too important to ignore. You have to see this Zohran Mamdani campaign ad that came out this morning: It's an entire political ad, from a major Democratic politician, that is exclusively
I've written a short blog post introducing "The Art of Visualization with ggplot2"!
This book is all about the end-to-end process of creating charts with #ggplot2 π including data wrangling, sketching, and styling your plots!
Blog post: https://nrennie.rbind.io/blog/art-of-viz-book/
Or just go straight to online version of the book: https://nrennie.rbind.io/art-of-viz/
Iβve written a book! This blog post gives a brief introduction to The Art of Visualization with ggplot2, a book of data visualization case studies showing the end-to-end process of building charts, starting from data acquisition to custom styling, entirely in R.
People who use screenreaders, I have a question about graphs as images in the Gender Census report.
Would you rather the alt text/image description was:
1) A very brief description such as "bar graph", and a link in the caption (under the image) to the Google Sheet containing the actual data and the graph
2) The numerical data as alt text, e.g. "nonbinary, 30%, 594. genderqueer, 25%, 456. etc."
3) Either of the above is fine
4) Something else that I have not anticipated!
Civic Spark is built by us β the civic tech community.
Join us Aug 16β17 for a volunteer-led gathering shaping the future of public life.
Full story β civictech.ca/announcements/civic-spark
Tickets β civic-spark.com
http://civictech.ca/announcements/civic-spark
http://civictech.ca/announcements/civic-spark
I am begging writers & writing-related-workers of all kindsβbut especially people working in journalism and blogsβto stop using βAI artβ to accompany your writing.
Please have solidarity with your fellow creative workers π
helped create a few maps of heat vulnerability in Toronto around this time last year
thought today's a good time to re-share
check out more here! - https://schoolofcities.github.io/heat-vulnerability-toronto/
On this site you can search through over 81,000 works by Kinngait (Cape Dorset) artists from the Cape Dorset Archive at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Want to do more than search the collection? As you browse, star the works you like to add them to your digital collection. Use your collection to make your own [β¦]
if you are under 30 years old and picking a font size for something other people need to read, not just yourself: thatβs too small. still too small. A LITTLE BIGGER
Stefanie Wuschitz
Pandora
Nicola Rennie
Gender Census
Civic Tech Toronto
Nyx Mir
Jeff Allen
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