{"id":142123,"date":"2015-09-01T16:20:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T16:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging2.simonw59.sg-host.com\/session-communicate-your-scholarship-effectively-we-share-we-write-but-are-we-understood\/"},"modified":"2022-05-26T13:45:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T13:45:27","slug":"session-communicate-your-scholarship-effectively-we-share-we-write-but-are-we-understood","status":"publish","type":"agenda","link":"https:\/\/force11.org\/agenda\/session-communicate-your-scholarship-effectively-we-share-we-write-but-are-we-understood\/","title":{"rendered":"Session: Communicate your scholarship effectively: we share, we write, but are we understood?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ct_field\"><span class=\"ct_date\">18th April 2016<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ct_field\"><span class=\"ct_default\">Co-chairs: Bruno Paschoal and Merc\u00e8 Crosas<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ct_field\"><span class=\"ct_default\"><\/p>\n<p>The session will explore, from different&nbsp;perspectives, what researchers could do to communicate more effectively to a broader audience:<\/p>\n<h2>The Curse of Knowledge: Why We Communicate Badly (In Any Medium)<\/h2>\n<h3>Steven Pinker<\/h3>\n<p>Department of Psychology, Harvard University<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/stevenpinker.com\">stevenpinker.com<\/a><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sapinker\">@sapinker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why is so much communication so ineffective? Do people communicate badly on purpose, to bamboozle their readers with highfalutin gobbledygook? Is communication being corrupted by texting and social media? I argue that in fact the chief impediment to clarity is a psychological phenomenon called the Curse of Knowledge&mdash;the difficulty we all have in imagining what it&rsquo;s like not to know something we know.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>From Bits to Narratives: The Rapid Evolution of Data Visualization Engines<\/h2>\n<h3>Cesar A.&nbsp;Hidalgo<\/h3>\n<p>Associate Professor, The MIT Media Lab, MIT<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chidalgo.com\/\">chidalgo.com<\/a><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cesifoti\">@cesifoti<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No matter whether you are a public sector leader, a private sector executive, or an scholar; your ability to transform data into narratives is probably central to your work. But transforming data into narratives is not easy, not only because crafting an empirically valid story is challenging, but also because the tools available to visualize and analyze data are based on outdated design paradigms that require users to spend vast amounts of time on tasks that can now be automated. In this presentation I will demo a series of data visualization engines that we have created in my group at MIT that help speed up our ability to transform data into narratives.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ct_meta\"><span class=\"ct_label\">Archive:<\/span>&nbsp;<a class=\"ct_archive\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.force11.net\/node\/6633\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/archive.force11.net\/node\/6633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18th April 2016 Co-chairs: Bruno Paschoal and Merc\u00e8 Crosas The session will explore, from different&nbsp;perspectives, what researchers could do to communicate more effectively to a broader audience: The Curse of Knowledge: Why We Communicate Badly (In Any Medium) Steven Pinker Department of Psychology, Harvard University stevenpinker.com @sapinker Why is so much communication so ineffective? Do &#8230; <a title=\"Session: Communicate your scholarship effectively: we share, we write, but are we understood?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/force11.org\/agenda\/session-communicate-your-scholarship-effectively-we-share-we-write-but-are-we-understood\/\" aria-label=\"More on Session: Communicate your scholarship effectively: we share, we write, but are we understood?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206238,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[466],"class_list":["post-142123","agenda","type-agenda","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-agendas"],"acf":[],"featured_img":false,"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"\/members\/nicolevasilevsky","display_name":"Nicole Vasilevsky"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 11 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 1 Sep 2015","modified":"Updated on 26 May 2022"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 1 Sep 2015 16:20","modified":"Updated on 26 May 2022 13:45"},"featured_img_caption":"","tax_additional":{"post_tag":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/force11.org\/tag\/agendas\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">agendas<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">agendas<\/span>"],"slug":"post_tag","name":"Tags"},"post_format":{"linked":[],"unlinked":[],"slug":"post_format","name":"Formats"}},"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/agenda\/142123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/agenda"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/agenda"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/agenda\/142123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}