Making Data
Making Data

Author: Ian Gwilt

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-03-24

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1350133248

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For many outside of the scientific community, big data and the forms it takes, such as statistical lists, spreadsheets and graphs, often seem abstract and unintelligible. This book investigates how digital fabrication and traditional making approaches are being used to present data in newly engaging and interesting ways. The first part of the book introduces the basic premise of the data object and the concept of making digital data into a physical form. Contributors cover topics such as biometrics, new technology, the economics of data and open and community uses of data. The second part presents a selection of exemplar forms and contexts for the application of data-objects, such as smart surfaces, smart cities, augmented reality techniques and next generation technical interfaces that blend physical and digital elements. Making Data delivers the importance and likely future prevalence of physical representations of data. It explores the creative methods, processes, theories and cultural histories of making physical representations of information and proposes that the making of data into physical objects is the next important development in the data visualisation phenomenon.

Impact of Regulatory Compliance Costs on Small Airports
Impact of Regulatory Compliance Costs on Small Airports

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13:

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"TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 90: Impact of Regulatory Compliance Costs on Small Airports explores the cumulative costs of complying with regulatory and other federal requirements at small hub and non-hub airports."--Publisher's description.

2013 California Administrative Code, Title 24 Part 1
2013 California Administrative Code, Title 24 Part 1

Author: International Code Council

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13:

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"This document is the 1st of 12 parts of the official triennial compilation and publication of the adoptions, amendments and repeal of administrative regulations to California Code of Regulations, Title 24, also referred to as the California Building Standards Code. This part is known as the California Administrative Code, also known as the California Building Standards Administrative Code"--Preface.

State Capacity, Economic Control, and Authoritarian Elections
State Capacity, Economic Control, and Authoritarian Elections

Author: Merete Bech Seeberg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-09

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1315473399

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Although the phenomenon of authoritarian elections has been a focal point for the literature on authoritarian institutions for more than a decade, our understanding of the effect of authoritarian elections is still limited. Combining evidence from cross-national studies with studies on selected cases relying on recent field work, this book suggests a solution to the "paradox of authoritarian elections". Rather than focusing on authoritarian elections as a uniform phenomenon, it focuses on the differing conditions under which authoritarian elections occur. It demonstrates that the capacities available to authoritarian rulers shape the effect of elections and high levels of state capacity and control over the economy increase the probability that authoritarian multi-party elections will stabilize the regime. Where these capacities are limited, the regime is more likely to succumb in the face of elections. The findings imply that although multi-party competition and state strength may be important prerequisites for democracy, they can under some circumstances obstruct democratization by preventing the demise of dictatorships. This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of democratization, and to those who study autocracy and electoral authoritarianism, as well as comparative politics more broadly.