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Data Visualization
A growing area of content creation in which information is represented graphically and often interactively.
What can Data Visualization be used for?
This can be used for subjects as diverse as an analysis of a speech by the president and the popularity of baby names over time. While it has deep roots in academia, data visualization has begun to emerge on content sites as a way to handle the masses of data that are being made public, often by government.
Tools for data visualization?
There are many tools for data visualizations, including Seattle-based Tableau and IBM’s Many Eyes. Data visualization should 1) tell a story, 2) allow users to ask their own questions and 3) start conversations.
Embed
A term meaning to place a specific piece of content from one web page inside of another one. Note: This is different from the newsroom sense of “embed,” popularized during the 2003 Iraqi invasion, which means to have a journalist work from within a military unit.
How is embeding often done/used?
This is often done using an embed code (a few lines of HTML and/or Javascript) that you can copy or paste. This is a common way for video content to be spread around the Internet and is increasingly being used for interactive components.
Filter bubble
A filter bubble is a concept developed by Internet activist Eli Pariser in his book by the same name to describe a phenomenon in which websites use algorithms to selectively guess what information a user would like to see based on information about the user, like location, past click behavior and search history.
What are some results of using Filter bubble?
As a result websites tend to show only information which agrees with the user’s past viewpoint.
Users become separated from information that disagrees with their viewpoints, effectively isolating them in their own cultural or ideological bubbles.
hashtag
Hashtags are like tags in a website which allow you to focus in on a topic. A hashtag is a word or short phrase that has the hash symbol (#) as a prefix; for example “#garden”.The hashtag can be placed before or after the message,or sometimes in the middle of the message.
Hashtags make it possible to group messages, by searching for the hashtag and getting the resulting set of messages that contain it.
What does HTML stand for?
Hypertext Markup Language
HTML
The dominant formatting language used on the World Wide Web to publish text, images and other elements. Invented by Tim Berners Lee in the early 1990s, HTML uses pairs of opening and closing tags (also known as elements), such as and ; each pair assigns meaning to the text and other types of content such as images, media, video, that appears between them.
HTML code is stored on a web server and tells a web browser what to display in terms of the actual content and how the page will look.
What is the main objective of HTML?
The main objective of HTML is to allow web browsers to interpret and display the content written between the tags.
What is HTML considered?
HTML can be considered code, but it is not a programming language; it’s a markup language, which is a separate beast.
What is the latest version of HTML?
The latest standard of HTML is HTML5, which adds powerful interactive functionality.
Describe the latest version of HTML:
HTML5 has added advanced interactive features, such as allowing video to be embedded on a web page. It is gaining in popularity compared to proprietary standards, like Adobe Flash, because it is an open standard and does not require third-party plugins. Using HTML5 will allow web pages to work more like desktop applications. The latest releases of most browsers support HTML5 to varying degrees.
What does HTTP stand for?
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
HTTP
HTTP -specifies how the browser and server send information to each other. It is the language used by the network on computers that make up the Internet.
hypertext
Hypertext is simply text which contains links to other texts and it is part of the HTML language. The use of links is a key feature of the Web. This concept is central to the internet and the web.
how is hypertext done?
Links can be attached to text or graphic objects and images.The user clicks the link to go to another HTML document.
internet
The internet is a massive publicly accessible computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide.
The internet includes
The Internet includes commercial, educational, governmental, and other networks, all of which use the same set of communications protocols. A protocol in this case,is a language, computers and computer networks use when talking to each other.
How is data on the internet transmitted?
Data on the internet is transmitted by packet switching (in small “packets”) using TCP/IP; Transfer Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.
In this global network, any computer can communicate with any other computer as long as they are both connected to the Internet.
what does TCP/IP stand for?
Transfer Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.
JavaScript
A Web scripting language used to enhance websites; it can make them more interactive without requiring a browser plugin. Despite its name, it is not related to the Java language.
How is Java script interpreted?
JavaScript is interpreted by your browser instead of by a web server, otherwise known as a client-side scripting language. JavaScript files generally end in .js.