For eight weeks every Wednesday, Brett and I snuck away under darkness and rain to the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium to learn how to make a star show. We learned the ins and outs of the planetarium’s computer controls and presented shows for our family and friends on March 30th in the dome. … Read more
Decision Fish: The Art & Science of Decision-Making is a blog with observations and applications from decision science, behavioral economics, finance, cognitive psychology and philosophy, written by my husband, Brett Whysel. The purpose of this blog is to explore applications of these realms to real world decisions. I have been working with Brett to refine the … Read more
June 6-8 was OpenStreetMap’s State of the Map Conference at the United Nations. I volunteered at registration and during morning sessions and was able to attend interesting talks on OSM data in Wikipedia, the Red Cross presentation on OSM in disaster response and developing a GIS curriculum in higher education. One of the highlights was … Read more
I am very happy to announce that I will be presenting an Information Architecture Wikipedia Editathon as an interactive session of the Information Architecture Summit, on April 22-26 in Minneapolis. As an amateur IA historian and keeper of many things IAI for several years, I have decided to go one step further and present my … Read more
Two upcoming events brought to you by GISMO and OWASP Brooklyn. Agency GIS Forum GISMO Thursday, February 5, 2015 100 Church Street 2:30 – 4:30 PM Join us to hear a round of lightning talks given by GIS directors and managers of City agencies. This will be a great opportunity to learn about innovative … Read more
For the 2015 edition of the NYPL Open Book Hackathon, I participated with a team that was interested in pulling poetry out of Project Gutenberg and creating a user dialogue with a goal toward creating a custom book of poems, based on user preferences. We started out calling it “Pandora for Poetry,” but settled on … Read more
On November 1, 2014 I participated in a Semiotics Web and Information Architecture meetup at New York Public Library. Mypresentation, “Semiotics in Mapping and Emergency Response,” discusses symbology in mapping as an aspect of semiotics and presents an example of emergency response map symbology and a discussion of applications for first responders and broader uses. … Read more
World IA Day has just announced 14 locations for February 11, 2012 1 DAY. 14 CITIES. World IA Day 2012 is about bringing the Information Architecture community together. We
I was having a nice conservation on Monday with my friend, journalist Amanda Robb, about topics that floated in interesting ways from pitching social awareness campaigns to women’s magazines to the role of Twitter and other social media in reporting. The conversation got me thinking about the two different angles that we approach our respective … Read more
(this article originally appeared at iainstitute.org on June 20, 2011) Last month in May, I had the pleasure of attending the Enterprise Search Summit East in New York City with IA Institute board member, Shari Thurow. Shari and I were on a quest to discover the role of information architecture in Enterprise Search. We didn’t … Read more
