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How to Make Data-Driven Visual Essays
Jason Kottke, 2019/05/01

Via Jason Kottke: " Ilia Blinderman of The Pudding has written a pair of essays about how to make data-driven visual essays. Part 1 covers working with data... Part 2 is on the design process."

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Bryan Alexander, 2019/05/01

At some point I'll write a version of this about myself (it's actually very boring) but for now we'll depend on Bryan Alexander's: "Here I’ll describe the tools I use as a professional futurist and why I rely on them.  Consider this a kind of techno-auto-ethnography, pinned in a given place and time. tl:dr – I mostly work from my laptop, somewhat nomadically.  Other hardware and analog items come in, along with plenty of software and digital documents."

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SecureKey launching online identification service backed by Canada's big banks
James McLeod, Financial Post, 2019/05/01

In various presentations in the past I've made the point that in the near future everyone will have key-based authentication to access data and services. I'm not sure whether this will be that key-based authentication, but it sure looks familiar. "With buy-in from the banks and telecoms, plus assurances of privacy and security, they hope to differentiate themselves. “We’re absolutely not Facebook, where I don’t really understand what I’m consenting to, and who’s getting my data. We’re trying not to do that.'" Knowing out bank and telcoms, I'm want more than assurances - I'd want the privacy and security legislated and regulated.

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