(and the bias of interpretation)

1. The Interpretation of Bias
and the bias of interpretation
Aaron Straup Cope
Museums and the Web, April 2009

2. Hi, my name is Aaron

3. Whoʼs on first?

4. “Taxonomy of experience”

5. Geocoding

6. Reverse geocoding

7. Who cares?

8. “Histories of movement...”

9. “...that constitute place.”

10. Place is history

11. How does it work?

12. continent
country
region
county maybe
“metro”
locality and airports (and “hollywood”)
neighbourhood
“street”

13. One way of looking at it

25. you are
here

26. the
“mastro”
Kill me now

27. “Synthetic Telepathy”

28. Corrections!

29. History boxes

30. Communities of authority

31. Guy Debord wasnʼt wrong

32. He was just annoying

33. IF YOU LIVED HERE!!!
The Trendyloin

34. The shape of observation

35. You are here

36. Clustr

37. Alpha shapes

39. Donut holes

41. mmmmm....donuts

42. ami-4d769124

43. ws-clustr

44. py-wsclustr

45. “The (Minnesota Historical) Society
has the largest collection in the
universe of Minnesota fiction and
many of these books create thinly
veiled places based on the author's
experience with an authentic local
place.”
“Placeography”

46. “Psychosynthography”

47. Hammock of interpretation

48. What he said

49. Thank you

50. http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/01/12/living-in-the-donut-hole
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/04/07/the-only-question-left-is
http://code.flickr.com/svn/trunk/clustr
http://github.com/straup/ws-clustr
http://github.com/straup/py-wsclustr
http://www.mapsfromscratch.com
http://www.aaronland.info/talks

51. http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/2902065092/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/george/474737715/
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/04/15/kittens-vs-sunsets/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3121881358/ (with apologies to max anderson)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallofhair/2726048885/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/2853741772/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3027393589/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3171285346/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3387001019/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/2804243817/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/860537013
(see also: http://aaronland.info/talks/#where08)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bopuc/2238348906/
(see also: http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/09/04/whos-on-first/)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3178465288/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/181642895/
(http://www.slideshare.net/straup/history-boxes-presentation)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellan/2883459596/
(see also: http://www.confluxfestival.org)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3084375308/
(see also: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=if%20you%20lived%20here&w=all)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3182764164/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/2901753697/
(see also: http://www.cgal.org/Manual/3.4/doc_html/cgal_manual/Alpha_shapes_2/Chapter_main.html)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3187717383/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3180283176/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3442514097
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbiddulph/3421335356/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3393441637/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3402373748/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3437832035/
http://www.placeography.org
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tbit/483413379
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stml/3180188807/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3296109002 (with apologies to jacob harris)