Developing the IWW’s direct unionism politics

07 Mar 2013
Author:  Juan Conatz 420607_10150639042957065_790649534_n.jpg Location:  read more more

Beyond the martyr complex: confessions of a “pink collar” militant

07 Mar 2013
Author:  Recomposition pink.png Location:  read more more

What to do with all that big data?

06 Mar 2013
“Big data will be bigger in 2013” according to the article on the website of Telegraph written on the 26th of December 2012. Even though ‘big data’ was ‘big’ in 2012, they predict that it will be bigger in 2013. Big data has a very broad definitio... more

Information visualization within Web 2.0: Google Flu Trends and Foursquare

06 Mar 2013
Every day, users on the Web generate large amounts of data. At the same time it seems that the use of information visualization has increased with the rise of Web 2.0. The term information visualization is defined by Stuart Card as “the use of com... more

No More Page 3 at University of Nottingham

06 Mar 2013
A campaign has begun to have UoN join the growing list of universities which have removed sale of The Sun 'news'paper (and in cases others) on campus. The campaign hopes to join UoN to Dundee University, St Edmund Hall College, Oxford Univers... more

Welfare fears provoke £1 million advice services U-turn

06 Mar 2013
Author:  richard The most sweeping benefit reforms in a generation have prompted Manchester City Council to reinvest an extra £1 million into advice services after previous cuts t... more

Nottingham BNP in deep cover

06 Mar 2013
We’re very pleased that Nottingham BNP have started publishing reports on their branch meetings on their shoddy and garish site. These are a lot more entertaining than the mix of Nick Griffin’s begging letters and reposts of any cri... more

Visualisation Aesthetics: Creative ways of visualising food and nutrition data

06 Mar 2013
Communicating data can be a difficult task to embark on. Perhaps one of the biggest challenges would be to present / visualise data in a way that even viewers that are not familiar with the subject visualised would gain interest and more important... more

Visualizing Emotions: Turning ‘Dry’ Data Into Stories

06 Mar 2013
The best data visualizations are the ones that tell you a story. A good data visualization has the ability to show you something that you wouldn’t have seen by only looking at the data, it presents the data in a way that the viewer can explo... more

Religion in Belarus: no conscience, no freedom

06 Mar 2013
In an authoritarian state, the regime uses loyal religious institutions to impose strict control over society and oppress freedom of conscience. Zmitser Yanenka reports from Belarus Alexander Lukashenko who once called himself “an orthodox... more

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