Christian - innovation & design

Rendering data on a map with Kepler.gl

This blogpost documents how to encode data on a map. Information about a journey (list of places) are collected via a DIY self-tracking gadget. Code and data set are available at Github.

analytics

Google’s Data Studio: Exploring LinkedIn data or website visitors

When there isn’t enough time for developing your own data visualization, dashboard that allow sharing are a great option.

MongoDB

Visualize Your Spotify Habits with MongoDB Charts

The approach briefly described in this post, relies on MongoDB Shell (exploring functionality) and two cloud services: MongoDB Atlas (hosting the data) and MongoDB Chart (visualizing the data). The post

maker movement

Rediscovering the value of open source in times of crisis

If there is one thing, we should learn from an open source software perspective, then it’s to resist the urge to go back to a comfortable pre-Covid-19 situation. Let’s preserve what went well and let’s embrace the complexity and uncertainty of our quest for a more ‘open’ digitization.

education

Online learning and educational quasi-markets

Taking into account the special situation of educational quasi-markets, where innovation management is different to fully competitive markets, such as the hardware and software industry, we were interested in what promotes or stops the adoption of novel ways to implement experiential learning.

mini project

Hacking the knowledge of maker communities for Education

The project addresses the need to rethink education to be effective in a changing environment. More concretely we look at the intersection of craft-based learning, digital fabrication technologies and schools’

mini project

An empirically informed taxonomy for the Maker movement

Classifying the terminology used to describe the fundamental activities in making is the purpose of analyzing data from Google Search, Twitter and Wikipedia.