From WCET 2016 where Carmean and Robinson make the claim that “digital pointillism” and seeking meaning in pattern has changed the way we see the world. From a distance, blurry clusters of dots - whether in colors, data, behaviors, beliefs - can provide a broader understanding that comes to life with making patterns visual. Just as Seurat and Signac connected dots to allow us to understand a canvas differently, analytics work, by clustering and displaying the dots in new, unseen ways, enables institutions to see patterns in what is - or can be - known about our learners.
From WCET 2016 where Carmean and Robinson make the claim that “digital pointillism” and seeking meaning in pattern has changed the way we see the world. From a distance, blurry clusters of dots - whether in colors, data, behaviors, beliefs - can provide a broader understanding that comes to life with making patterns visual. Just as Seurat and Signac connected dots to allow us to understand a canvas differently, analytics work, by clustering and displaying the dots in new, unseen ways, enables institutions to see patterns in what is - or can be - known about our learners.