The Interpretation of Bias

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

Hi, my name is Aaron

Whoʼs on ﬁrst?

“Taxonomy of experience”

Geocoding

Reverse geocoding

Who cares?

“Histories of movement...”

“...that constitute place.”

Place is history

How does it work?

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

One way of looking at it

you are here

the “mastro” Kill me now

“Synthetic Telepathy”

Corrections!

History boxes

Communities of authority

Guy Debord wasnʼt wrong

He was just annoying

IF YOU LIVED HERE!!! The Trendyloin

The shape of observation

You are here

Clustr

Alpha shapes

Donut holes

mmmmm....donuts

ami-4d769124

ws-clustr

py-wsclustr

“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”

“Psychosynthography”

Hammock of interpretation

What he said

Thank you

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

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)

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