{"id":38270,"date":"2011-05-05T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/poptech-the-new-york-times-rd-lab-has-built-a\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T14:45:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T21:45:33","slug":"poptech-the-new-york-times-rd-lab-has-built-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/poptech-the-new-york-times-rd-lab-has-built-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-38270 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/poptech-the-new-york-times-rd-lab-has-built-a\/attachment\/38271\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lk7rk1baf11qziqyeo1_500-100x100.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.poptech.org\/post\/4928605527\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">poptech<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2011\/04\/the-new-york-times-rd-lab-has-built-a-tool-that-explores-the-life-stories-take-in-the-social-space\/\">The New York Times\u2019 R&amp;D Lab has built a tool that explores the life stories take in the social space<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Project Cascade \u2014 it\u2019s a working title \u2014 lets you visualize a cascade as a comprehensive unit; it also allows viewers to zoom in on particular events to see key points in how a story\u2019s sharing activity has unfolded. Its side view demonstrates a (relatively) simple timeline of a story\u2019s activity; its radar view demonstrates the separation between conversations; and its 3D view essentially marries the two, representing individual threads of conversation in a sharper way. Complex cascades can also be pruned to show only the most influential tweets (what Thorp calls the \u201cbackbone\u201d of the conversation), and the users who posted them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>We recently spoke to one of the\u00a0<\/span>Cascade <span>collaborators,\u00a0<\/span>Data Artist in Residence\u00a0<span><u>Jer Thorp<\/u><\/span>, who <a href=\"http:\/\/poptech.org\/blog\/poptech_interview_data_visualizing_malcolm_gladwell_nasas_kepler_project_and_color_with_jer_thorp.html\">described the project<\/a> as \u201ckind of like a medical tool for social networks.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>poptech: The New York Times\u2019 R&amp;D Lab has built a tool that explores the life stories take in the social space Project Cascade \u2014 it\u2019s a working title \u2014 lets you visualize a cascade as a comprehensive unit; it also allows viewers to zoom in on particular events to see key points in how a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[780,1539,781],"class_list":{"0":"post-38270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-gallery","5":"hentry","6":"tag-edp","7":"tag-emergent-digital-practices","9":"post_format-post-format-gallery"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9Xg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38272,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38270\/revisions\/38272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}