A kind of cognitive framework called graph thinking is circulating through the KGC community. So let’s explore this notion. Also, let’s suspend any discussion about technology, for the moment, and talk about cognition. Among the people who use knowledge graphs effectively, how do they conceptualize the problem? Ostensibly, when we…

Open source tools and techniques for visualizing data on custom maps — Throughout the global pandemic, many people have spent lots of time viewing maps that visualize data. Important data. People who work in data science are probably seeing increased needs to work with geospatial data, especially for visualizations. There are increased needs to understand metrics about geographic regions, to analyze supply…

Posting for a friend who doesn’t want to be linked directly, for obvious reasons. Part interview, part summary analysis. While I cannot verify details, the story had drawn me in. Not that I’m saying it’s a good direction, nor that I agree with the approach necessarily. …

Visualizing missives from our latent space, with the help of machine learning, as of 2023-05–22. — Approximately 75 million voters in the US support having a civil war, where the far-right can settle the matter once and forever about having heteronormative male caucasian conservative christian nationalists rule over all. Put ten people in a room, and four of them want a war. What if they got…

First appeared in Signum, 2001–08–30, albeit the publisher omitted footnotes. Reinserted herein. There’s an element of irony, given so much subsequent Citizens United dispute about corporate personhood a decade later. Liber 118 U.S. 394 I’d like to tell you an almost-completely-true story. …

Visualizing missives from our latent space, with the help of machine learning, as of 2022-08-15. — OANN managed to piss-off even the relatively libertarian-aligned hacker audience at Def Con.

In an era of AI adoption in industry, stark contrasts in our thinking begin to show about how we leverage computing, data, and inference. This article considers graph technologies in the context of business: enhancing human thinking and enabling data exploration, especially among teams of domain experts augmented by AI…

The 2021 Knowledge Graph Conference, held online May 3–6, had over 1,000 people attending. Special thanks to all of the 20+ people who volunteered to assist with the conference! We have the results from an audience poll about which parts they liked best, and also from an informal poll among…

For a full day on December 14, 2020, LinkedIn sponsored a virtual workshop called Metadata Day, followed by a public online meetup called Metaspeak. View videos of the event on their website including a set of lightning talks provided by several of the speakers. The gist is that circa 2018…