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Posts Tagged ‘ wikipedia ’

Wikipedia and education: fear or foresight?

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December 11, 2010

Since it was first cited by a student in an academic paper controversy over the accuracy, validity, truth or shall we say ‘correctness’ of Wikipedia has been debated. Before the widespread availability of information on the Internet we were relegated to what was available to us through schools, the library and media such as...
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Tables as a form of information visualization

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August 1, 2010

Readers, you may find this blog posting of interest: http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/2010/08/the-interpretation-of-tables-in-texts-2000.html First, this guy (not to be rude, his name is Matthew Hurst) did his PhD on the depiction of data in tables. This is interesting in of itself. By tables I mean a plain old box with fields in rows and columns. It may...
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Wikipedia and Flickr – a semantic marriage?

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September 26, 2009

Wikipedia tends to primarily contain written content on practically every topic conceivable. Although it allows for pictures not every entry has (or needs) visual images. There are rules about what the content considered appropriate, including that it must be of merit (e.g. an article cannot be posted about a person unless they are a...
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The wacky world of Wikipedia

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August 3, 2009

In December of 2008 Alex Jadad and I published had an editorial on the definition of health in the BMJ. The purpose of this article was to stimulate discussion on the definition of health, first proposed by the WHO in 1948. We felt it was time to re-visit this issue. One of our ideas...
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