Digital Present

digital literacy and culture at Central Saint Martins

Digital Present

Main menu

Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content
  • Home
  • About
  • Digital Literacy
  • Glossary
  • Training and Events
  • UAL DIAL Project
  • UAL Digital Tools

Tag Archives: data visualisation

The meaning of data

Posted on 28/01/2014 by Sarah Kante
Image by Buster Benson on Flickr

Image by Buster Benson on Flickr

The word ‘data’ is used regularly across a range of areas – science, technology, politics, film, art or media. Some people see each and every one of us as a collection of data, files upon files of information to be interrogated.

Data terminology is part of our everyday lexicon. With data-related issues seemingly omnipresent in our lives, it’s important that we understand what these data-related terms mean in order for us to make sense of our enmeshed physical-digital landscape.

In this article, Sarah Kante explores the meaning data and some of the associated terms.

Continue reading →

Posted in Case studies, Digital tools, Social media | Tagged big data, data, data mining, data sets, data visualisation, definition, Edward Snowden, metadata, NSA, open data, PRISM

Recent Posts

  • Importance of IT in art and design education
  • TEI 2015 conference
  • Online learning: University of the Arts London workshop
  • Digital Copyright: considerations for art and design
  • Mobile devices as conceptual and creative instruments
  • Art and design: online learning landscape
  • Creative Technology Day: group discussions
  • Reframing Blythe House Workshop
  • Creative Communities: expanding conceptions of digital literacy
  • Creative technologies and future careers

Categories

Archives

Pages

  • About
  • Digital Literacy
  • Glossary
  • Training and Events
  • UAL DIAL Project
  • UAL Digital Tools

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org

Digital Present Tag Cloud

apps arts and design blog blogs blythe house central saint martins cltad coding collaboration creative technology day csm data design digital digital literacy Digital Present digital technologies digital technology digital tools education eLearning facebook infrastructure interactive jo morrison learning MA Design mobile mooc moocs moodle museum online learning pedagogy recording research smartphone smartphones social media students technology tools UAL vle workshop
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Proudly powered by WordPress
Skip to toolbar
  • myblog.arts
  • Log in