Preparing for the EMAPS workshop in Oxford
Lucy and I have been preparing for the next workshop on the developing maps to be held in Oxford on Friday (12th October). In addition to our lead ‘user’, we have invited four health and social care...
View ArticleWhat we learned from engaging with ageing issue professionals
What are issue maps and what are they for? The aim of this post is to share some reflections following our session exploring the most recent batch of maps with potential users in Oxford last Friday....
View ArticleWorkshop in Oxford | The visualizations
Question 1: What is living well with dementia? a-Which online resources aim at helping people to live well with dementia? —— Young Foundation dataset —— SAMPLE DATA —— SAMPLE DATA Question 2:...
View ArticleOxford workshop: a visual evaluation of issue maps
On October 12, we met in London Maria Parsons, Margaret Melling from MM Consulting, Penny Thewlis and Diana Roberts from Age UK. The meeting was mediated by our Young Foundation partners Lucy Kimbell...
View ArticleArticle centrality measures in the Wikipedia hyperlink network
In this post we have drawn the network of hyperlinks connecting Wikipedia articles related to climate change. Now we will focus on how to identify the most central articles in the network. Applying...
View ArticleView Statistics of Wikipedia pages
We have recently started to work with an interesting additional data-source for Wikipedia data: the number of views per hour a specific Wikipedia page receives. This data is available at this website...
View ArticleA speculative blog post about changing how we engage with issue professionals...
Ahead of our two-day workshop in London later this week, I present some suggestions that follow on from our discussions in the project team about we can engage productively with people who might use...
View ArticleStudying factions of users in Wikipedia
In a recent study, we analysed the interactions between self-proclaimed Democrats and Repubblicans in Wikipedia. We started from the identification of users having in their personal page a userbox...
View ArticleA few things we learned thanks to the Issue Safari
On December 12 2012, the EMAPS project organized its first Issue Safari. Such workshop was an improved version of the seminar we organized in June 2012. In both cases the objective was to submit some...
View ArticleUniversity of Amsterdam new strategy for the second year of the project
This blog post is a response to Axel’s post asking each partner to rethink their work according to the new strategy discussed in the project meeting back in December. It details the work that the...
View ArticleMapping with Others: How to Work with Climate Change Issue Experts
Since February of this year we have been running the second version of the Issue Mapping for Politics course where students have engaged in climate change controversy mapping through three periods of...
View ArticleDMI Summer School 2013: Mapping keyword uptake in the climate change debate
Entitled “You are not the API I used to know: On the challenges of studying social media data”, the 7th annual DMI Summer School took place from 24th June to 5th July 2013 at the University of...
View ArticleSprint / International negotiations on climate change adaptation
Dear all, here is a short outline on the preparation of the Paris Sprint. Dates & Venue Jan 6th to 10th, at Sciences Po, Paris. We have pre-booked rooms in a nearby hotel. Programme Under...
View ArticleVulnerability, Resilience and Conflict: Mapping Climate Change, Reading Cli-fi.
We dedicated this year’s Digital Methods Fall data sprint (25-21 October, 2013) to mapping climate change conflicts, climate refugees, water wars and other future risk scenarios. The interest in...
View ArticleAmsterdam Sprint: Coping with Vulnerability to Climate Change
The University of Amsterdam is pleased to announce the second in its series of four EMAPS sprints dedicated to mapping climate change controversies, entitled “Coping with Vulnerability to Climate...
View ArticleMaps on climate change adaptation / Part one : international negotiations
Dear all, We are very proud to introduce the results of the EMAPS first data Sprint (Paris January 6th to 10th 2014) and share them with you. The UNFCCC negotiations was the topic we selected as an...
View ArticleMapping Climate Change Vulnerability together with its Indexes
Post by Sophie Waterloo and Richard Rogers The Amsterdam EMAPS sprint (March 24th-28th 2014), entitled ‘Coping with Vulnerability to Climate Change: Adaptation, its Limits and Post-adaptation...
View Articleclimaps.eu, a global issue atlas of adaptation to climate change, is online
Climate change is happening; we have no choice but to adapt. Yet how are we going to live with a changing climate? How are we going to share the burden of adaptation among countries, regions and...
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