Heart of the Dataset
David McCandless creates visual landscapes from the debris of internet statistics. A self-taught designer, he has established himself as a leading light in infographics and data visualization. The task today…
David McCandless creates visual landscapes from the debris of internet statistics. A self-taught designer, he has established himself as a leading light in infographics and data visualization. The task today…
…(elevated) Central Brooklyn, where the lights—and the Internet—remained on. And by far, the best and most entertaining source of information for storm updates was Twitter. There are writers who frown…
https://www.guernicamag.com/rachel-signer-consider-the-tweet/
As student loan debt ticks up to 1 trillion dollars this month, perhaps the stickiness of the one-trillion-dollar question derives from the contestability of the social benefits of education, as…
https://www.guernicamag.com/rachel-signer-the-trillion-dollar-question-part-ii/
…disrupt the elections, using guidelines communicated to them from outside the country and generating disturbances through online social networking websites. Moslehi said the fifth columnists were arrested after their activities…
went from sharing almost nothing to sharing almost everything overnight. They flung their whole library onto the government’s classified intranet, SIPRnet, making it available to hundreds of thousands of Federal…
…let it secretly manipulate social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. A Californian corporation has been…
…internet as a new force that puts the power of the press into the hands of anyone who can afford a computer and online access, I felt compelled to tell…
…the late nineteenth century until the Arab oil embargo of 1973. Those “easy-oil” supplies are the ones we’ve long been familiar with: the giant petroleum reservoirs in friendly, stable countries…
…story, translating it from German to see what approach they took? Erin Siegal: I never did. It wasn’t online, and I was going to just run it through Google Translate…
…in general readership publications like the New Yorker as much as they do in online poetry zines. The annual Best American Poetry series has showcased her verse several times. Ripple…
https://www.guernicamag.com/tangen_mills_elaine_equi_8_1_11/
…banning the film online in India through Youtube and on the BBC web site. I managed to stream the film online during the narrow window of time while it was…
…me, cry for my youth,” read the marker for Oday Ahmed Khalaf. “Yesterday I was living, and today I’m buried beneath the earth.” _**“Today’s Taliban™: Now with ninety-six virgins.”**_ Not…
https://www.guernicamag.com/azmat_khan_a_year_in_digital_discoveries/
…animals, a photo of a calla lily framed above her bed. It was a Mapplethorpe; Jack had found the print online; he had it sent to Lily for her sixteenth…
…there aren’t clear demarcations. More platform-sensitive generations will make distinctions between online and in-person intimacy, whereas fourteen-year-olds have very nuanced online selves and might embody their virtual identity in the…
…you know—burping and rising and leaking Helium-4), or Planet X (the tenth planet in our solar system, which appears in ancient Sumerian stone carvings, caused Noah’s Flood, and comes around…
I want to tell you about a feeling I would have in my stomach before modeling castings. A frenetic energy, a fluttering that carried me each step as I would…
…aesthetic seem less important now that more people have greater access to the Internet, and eyewitness accounts? John Freeman: We’ve shifted back to an image-based culture, an oral culture, but…
…example, we can now get it to them within about 7-10 days. (Our charter school network has purchased thousands of devices and is covering six months of internet for students…
https://www.guernicamag.com/how-three-school-social-workers-do-their-jobs-in-a-pandemic/
…from a well-guarded prison in the city of Assab to reach his village. He took his wife, Natsnet Tesfealem, and headed across the border to Ethiopia. There, the couple stayed…
https://www.guernicamag.com/voices-eritrean-refugees-radio-show-builds-community-trauma/
…then, you invest that premise with that fully realized social and psychological realism that offers a penetrating portrait of one woman’s marriage. I was surprised, when I heard you speak…
https://www.guernicamag.com/joyce-carol-oates-failure-is-just-preparation/