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		<title>Where Commedia dell&#8217;arte and visualization (may) collide</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I am so hungry&#8221; proclaims a pitiful man loudly. Truffaldino&#8217;s situation does not look good: not a job, no money and in dear need of food. Luckily, fortune is on his sight. In one day he becomes the servant of not one but two travelers, who happen to be lovers that were separated due to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p id="top" />&#8220;I am so hungry&#8221; proclaims a pitiful man loudly. Truffaldino&#8217;s situation does not look good: not a job, no money and in dear need of food. Luckily, fortune is on his sight. In one day he becomes the servant of not one but two travelers, who happen to be lovers that were separated due to circumstances. The travelers are now both in the same city, sleeping in the same hotel and sharing the same servant. This is unknown to the two travelers and Truffaldino&#8217;s tries to keep the situation covered which results in dangerous situations were he is almost unmasked. Eventually, by interference of several other characters, the Truffaldino&#8217;s situation is exposed, the lovers meet, get married and Truffaldino receives his well-deserved meal.<br />
<span id="more-852"></span>I saw this play a couple weeks ago, the brother of friend portrayed in the play one of the masters. Afterwards we congratulated his performance and asked about the masks they wore the entire performance. He told us the play, &#8220;Servant of Two Masters,&#8221; belongs to the Italian Renaissance theater style Commedia dell&#8217;arte. This style is, among others, characterized by stock characters, masking and dialogue improvisation.</p>
<p>The masks are actually quite interesting become they signify the role of the character. A glittered, pink mask implies a girly role whereby the carrier of a dark, strict mask has a serious personality. The servant in this play had a mask with grossly execrated features which represents his role as trickster and comedian. Thus by externalizing the characters personality through a mask, the audience knows what he or she can expect from that character. The masks manage thereby the expectations of the audience, which is possible because the characters in this theater form are pretty one-dimensional.</p>
<p>I was thinking how this could be applied to visualization. It is possible to connect stock characters with visual forms (e.g. bar charts, stream graphs, treemaps), the externalizing of hidden information, expectations management with usability and improvisation with interactivity. With the last I mean that the play has a basic plot and the actors have the freedom to improvise their lines. Actually, the have to improvise, there is no written script. This results in unique performances, no night is the same. This could be the same for the reader-driven visualization. The reader engages with an environment (or &#8216;play field&#8217;) where she has to follow pre-defined rules, the plot. But the readers have the power to click on the elements they are interested in, thereby manipulating the information display and &#8216;improvise&#8217; the actual shown information sequence.</p>
<p>This is probably a far-fetched idea. Not quite sure how viable the metaphors are. I probably would need to read some more about this theater form to make more sustainable connections. And see some more plays, doing field research would in this case be definitely not a punishment.</p>
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		<title>a Card</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t send physical post often, am more inclined to write an email but fun to make. Done in processing &#38; photoshop, the code for the card letters can be found here.]]></description>
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<p>I don&#8217;t send physical post often, am more inclined to write an email but fun to make.</p>
<p>Done in processing &amp; photoshop, the code for the card letters can be found <a href="http://marijerooze.nl/projects/drawingProcessing.zip">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Media Inventions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the class &#8216;Media History&#8217; two years ago. It is not a difficult course, you only have to read a lot. Afterwards you received a multiple choice test with some very detailed questions. One of the things you needed to know when everything regarding new media was invented. I made a list and then [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p id="top" />I had the class &#8216;Media History&#8217; two years ago. It is not a difficult course, you only have to read a lot. Afterwards you received a multiple choice test with some very detailed questions. One of the things you needed to know when everything regarding new media was invented. I made a list and then thought it would be cool to make it visual. First started with a timeline, a little like the evolution of programming languages from o&#8217;Reilly. But, as you can see in the picture below, it was quite unclear.</p>
<p><a href="http://marijerooze.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/tijdlijn_schets.gif"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-835" title="tijdlijn_schets" src="http://marijerooze.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/tijdlijn_schets-1024x159.gif" alt="" width="553" height="86" /></a></p>
<p>Thus,  I made it more simple by making these cards per invention, with some details and an image.</p>
<p><a href="http://marijerooze.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/MediaHistoryInventions.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-836" title="MediaHistoryInventions" src="http://marijerooze.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/MediaHistoryInventions-1024x537.jpg" alt="" width="553" height="290" /></a></p>
<p>The visualization is not very exciting, but useful. The classmates I send it to were happy. And I had played around so much with all the cards, images and things, that the facts were kind of ingrained in my brain. A win &#8211; win situation.</p>
<p>The pdf can be found <a href="http://marijerooze.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/geschiedenis_marije_rooze_beta.pdf">here</a>. Be aware, this is only a selection (most in Dutch), there are more things that led to media.</p>
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		<title>Love it</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just ran into this image again and was thinking how cool it is. So incredibly simple but oh so beautiful. It is a project called Balloon Chain made by Robert Bose and Michael Cha, this picture was taking at Burning Man.]]></description>
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<p>Just ran into this image again and was thinking how cool it is. So incredibly simple but oh so beautiful. It is a project called <em><a href="Balloon Chain">Balloon Chain</a> </em>made by Robert Bose and Michael Cha, this picture was taking at Burning Man.</p>
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		<title>Some Quotes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 11:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I have to understand the world, you see.&#8221; Richard P. Feynman in Surely You&#8217;re Joking Mr. Feynman Douglas Rushkoff, Program or be Programmed &#8220;In an abstracted universe where everything is floating up in the same cloud, it is the indexer who provides context and direction.&#8221; Alice&#8217;s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) &#8216;Would you tell me, [...]]]></description>
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<blockquote>&#8220;I have to understand the world, you see.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Richard P. Feynman <em>in</em> Surely You&#8217;re Joking Mr. Feynman <span id="more-807"></span></p>
<p>Douglas Rushkoff, Program or be Programmed</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;In an abstracted universe where everything is floating up in the same cloud, it is the indexer who provides context and direction.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Alice&#8217;s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8216;Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?&#8217; &#8216;That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,&#8217; said the Cat. &#8216;I don&#8217;t much care where&#8211;&#8217; said Alice. &#8216;Then it doesn&#8217;t matter which way you go,&#8217; said the Cat. &#8216;&#8211;so long as I get somewhere,&#8217; Alice added as an explanation. &#8216;Oh, you&#8217;re sure to do that,&#8217; said the Cat, &#8216;if you only walk long enough.&#8217;</p></blockquote>
<p>How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (Mark Twain)</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Two Bits (Kelty)</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Free Software exemplifies a considerable reorientation of knowledge and power in contemporary society—a reorientation of power with respect to the creation, dissemination, and authorization of knowledge in the era of the Internet.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>iWoz (Steve Wozniak)</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Doing long, long jobs that aren&#8217;t just some real simple quick thing like a flashlight, but things that take weeks to build, really demonstrates that you&#8217;ve mastered something great.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;You build something and it works. You don&#8217;t stop finding things you forgot or did wrong until it works. And you learn about what happens when things go wrong, which is the number one thing former electronics students always remember about their classes. We all got zapped with accidental shocks now and then.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Where Good Ideas Come From (Steven Johnson)</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Call it the 10/10 rule: a decade to build the new platform, and a decade for it to find a mass audience.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Science long ago realized that we can understand something better by studying its behavior in different contexts.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (Malcolm Gladwell)</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. Not the kind of writing that you’ll find in this book, anyway. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else’s head — even if in the end you conclude that someone else’s head is not a place you’d really like to be.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Haruki Murakami (What I Talk About When I Talk About Running)</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;If I’m asked what the next most important quality is for a novelist, that’s easy too: focus—the ability to concentrate all your limited talents on whatever’s critical at the moment.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It’s a little strange, perhaps, to make this claim at such a late date, but Gatsby really is an outstanding novel. I never get tired of it, no matter how many times I read it.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s (Truman Capote)</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography (Stephen Fry)</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8216;Write about what you know&#8217; is the maxim that I had most heard from writers dead and alive.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Just Kids (Patti Smith)</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>Right, there is more (there is always more), but for now, that&#8217;s it.</p>
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		<title>366 Days on Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I have been exactly one year and one day on Facebook. An online environment which I have actively resisted for years, to the annoyance of many of my friend, &#8220;I invited everyone through Facebook but for only you I have to write an email,&#8221; or, &#8220;are you a hipster or something? No? Well I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p id="top" />Today I have been exactly one year and one day on Facebook. An online environment which I have actively resisted for years, to the annoyance of many of my friend, &#8220;I invited everyone through Facebook but for only you I have to write an email,&#8221; or, &#8220;are you a hipster or something? No? Well I think it&#8217;s a hipster attitude.&#8221;</p>
<p>Peer pressure can be a terrible thing.</p>
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		<title>Seminar &#8220;Datavisualisatie in Beweging&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Afgelopen vrijdag, 3 februari 2012, organiseerde het CBS, Bas Broekhuizen en Eugene Tjoa voor de eerst de seminar &#8220;Datavisualisatie in Beweging&#8221;. De dag was gevuld met een vijftal sprekers die ieder drie kwartier kregen om hun verhaal te vertellen. De achtergronden van de sprekers waren divers: zowel de academische als de journalistieke als de professionele [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p id="top" />Afgelopen vrijdag, 3 februari 2012, organiseerde het CBS, Bas Broekhuizen en Eugene Tjoa voor de eerst de <a href="http://www.datavisualisatiesinbeweging.nl/index.html">seminar</a> &#8220;Datavisualisatie in Beweging&#8221;. De dag was gevuld met een vijftal sprekers die ieder drie kwartier kregen om hun verhaal te vertellen. De achtergronden van de sprekers waren divers: zowel de academische als de journalistieke als de professionele kant waren vertegenwoordigt. Hieronder volgt een korte samenvatting van de vijf sprekers.</p>
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<p><strong>Bas Broekhuizen</strong></p>
<p>Bas Broekhuizen, docent en onderzoeker Journalistiek bij de UvA, gaf het startschot. In zijn presentatie stond hij stil bij de ontwikkelingen die infographics in de laatste jaren hebben gemaakt. Infographics krijgen hedendaags meer de ruimte, zowel in de publieke als de commerciële sector. Daarnaast tracken steeds meer mensen hun eigen gedrag door technologie zoals de Nike+ waarmee tevens visualisaties worden gemaakt.</p>
<p>Broekhuizen stond tevens even stil bij het actuele debat over aesthetiek vs functionaliteit binnen visualisatie. Deze wordt ook het Tufte vs Holmes debat genoemd (wat verwijst naar Edward Tufte en Nigel Holmes). Broekhuizen sprak over de volgende vier functies van visualisatie: persuade; inform, entertain and share. Een visualisatie kan een combinatie van deze categorieën vallen. Broekhuizen wees erop dat er meer functies zijn, deze benoemde hij als volgt: analyseren, ontsluiten, duiden, personaliseren en vertellen.</p>
<p>De presentatie van Bas Broekhuizen staat online en is <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/basbroekhuizen/cbs-datavis-in-beweging-bas-broekhuizen-030212">hier</a> te vinden, het is zeker een aanrader om er even naar te kijken.</p>
<p><strong>Jerry Vermanen</strong></p>
<p>Opvolgend Broekhuizen kwam Jerry Vermanen, journalist bij de Stentor. Vermanen was de inniator van <a href="http://www.regiohack.nl/" target="_self">Regiohack</a>: een project dat als doelstelling heeft om informatiespecialisten vanuit verschillende velden bij elkaar te brengen en te laten samenwerken. Ze hebben een event georganiseerd waarin designers, journalisten, programmeurs in 30 uur bij elkaar werden gezet om gezamenlijk met behulp van open data een project te maken. Regiohack is een experiment. En hoewel de participanten tegen veel onverwachte obstakels liepen was de algemene conclusie dat in samenwerken vanuit diverse disciplines veel potentie zit.</p>
<p><strong>Thomas Clever</strong></p>
<p>Thomas Clever van het bureau <a href="http://www.cleverfranke.com/cf/nl/index.php">CLEVER°FRANKE</a> (of C°F) was de derde presentator van de dag. C°F is in 2007 opgericht, sinds die tijd zijn actieve producers geworden van interactieve visualisaties. Clever vertelde in zijn presentatie over enkele projecten die zij hebben gemaakt voor, vaak kennis gedreven, organisaties.</p>
<p>Uit de presentatie kwam naar voren dat ze eerst uitvoerig onderzoek doen voordat ze daadwerkelijk een ontwerp maken. Het is belangrijk om eerst goed geïnformeerd zijn over de vraag van de klant, het gestelde probleem, de doelgroep en wat de dataset van het project is zodat bepaald kan worden wat essentieel is voor de uiteindelijke visualisatie.</p>
<p>Clever vertelde dat het uiteindelijke doel is om producten te maken die <em>insightful</em>, <em>engaging</em>, <em>usable</em>, <em>desirable</em> en <em>effective</em> zijn. Hierop volgend toonde hij enkele projecten die ze gemaakt hadden voor onder andere<a href="http://www.cleverfranke.com/cf/nl/project/sns-bank/project.php?id=147"> SNS bank </a>en een <a href="http://www.cleverfranke.com/cf/nl/project/genetic-research/project.php?id=18">proefschrift over genetisch onderzoek</a>. Ik was onder de indruk van het werk, en ik denk dat ze vaker wel dan niet hun vijf gestelde doelen behalen.</p>
<div id="attachment_779" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 560px"><a href="http://www.cleverfranke.com/cf/nl/project/genetic-research/project.php?id=18"><img class="size-full wp-image-779" title="cleverfranke_genetischproef" src="http://marijerooze.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/cleverfranke_genetischproef.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="373" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Boekontwerp &#39;Genome wide approaches towards identification of suspectibility genes in complex diseases&#39;</p></div>
<p><strong>Jan Willem Tulp</strong></p>
<p>Jan Willem Tulp is een overgroot deel van carrière programmeur geweest maar heeft vorig jaar in september de stap gezet om zich full time bezig te gaan houden met visualisatie. In september 2011 heeft hij het bedrijf <a href="http://www.janwillemtulp.com/portfolio/" target="_blank">Tulp Interactive</a> opgericht.</p>
<p>De presentatie van Tulp richtte zich sterk op het proces bij het maken van een visualisatie. Dit is een creatief proces waarbij veel geëxperimenteerd wordt, er is oftewel sprake van <em>trial &amp; error</em>. Er is hierbij ruimte voor <em>serendipity</em> en <em>surprises</em> en dit kan leiden tot mooie, onverwachte dingen.</p>
<p>Tulp start zelf altijd met de dataset: het is belangrijk om een gevoel te krijgen over de data. Dit doet hij door ofwel zelf iets te schrijven, of door template software zoals Tableau te gebruiken. Tulp maakt gebruik van de door Ben Fry gedefinieerde zeven stappen:</p>
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<li>Acquire &gt; Excel, database, API, tekst, images, sound</li>
<li>Parse &gt; verwerken en herstructering van data</li>
<li>Filter &gt; van niet interessante data</li>
<li>Mine
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<li>Minimum</li>
<li>Maximum</li>
<li>Standard deviation</li>
<li>Clusters</li>
<li>Classificaties</li>
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</li>
<li>Represent &gt;
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<li>Properties and best uses of visual encodings</li>
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<li>Refine</li>
<li>Interact</li>
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<p>Deze stappen zijn niet linear, worden soms enkele stappen naar voren gezet om daarna weer naar achteren te gaan. Het is een iteratief en exploratief proces.</p>
<p>Na deze inleiding toonde Tulp enkele projecten en het achterliggende proces. Ik was zelf zeer onder de indruk van <a href="http://datavisualization.ch/showcases/ghost-counties/">Ghost Counties</a>. Uit de schetsen van Tulp kwam duidelijk naar voren hoe omvangrijk het proces was om het uiteindelijke resultaat te krijgen. Het feit dat dit project vorig jaar heeft gewonnen bij de open wedstrijd bij het <a href="http://eyeofestival.com/">Eyeo festival</a> is volgens mij meer dan terecht.</p>
<div id="attachment_776" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 561px"><a href="http://datavisualization.ch/showcases/ghost-counties/"><img class="size-full wp-image-776 " title="ghost_counties_JanwillemTulp" src="http://marijerooze.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ghost_counties_JanwillemTulp.jpg" alt="" width="551" height="352" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Ghost Counties door Jan Willem Tulp</p></div>
<p><strong>Gerrit van de Veer</strong></p>
<p>De laatste officiële spreker was Gerrit van de Veer, een academicus op gebied van cognitieve psychologie en human computer interaction. Van de Veer richtte zijn presentatie op usability binnen visualisaties.</p>
<p>Het is belangrijk om de scheiding tussen ontwerper en gebruiker te overbruggen. Hierbij spelen volgens Van der Veer de volgende vier aspecten een rol: functionaliteit, gebruiksgemak, leefbaarheid en ervaring. Een belangrijke aandachtspunt zijn verder culturele verschillen: een ontwerper is verplicht om na te denken over de mogelijke interpretatie problemen binnen taal, esthetiek en waarden.</p>
<p>Binnen cognitieve psychologie is het van belang om te waarnemen, te herkennen en dan hiervan te leren. Dit paste Van de Veer toe door enkele interactieve visualisaties van CBS te analyseren. De voornaamste conclusies die hier naar voren kwam is dat het belangrijk is om duidelijk te zijn in het design en consistent blijven aan de gekozen structuur.</p>
<p><strong>Afsluiting</strong></p>
<p>Na de laatste presentatie werden drie korte presentaties gegeven door de drie winnaars van de<a href="http://www.datavisualisatiesinbeweging.nl/wedstrijd.html"> CBS datavisualisatie wedstrijd</a>. Hier opvolgend was een paneldiscussie waarbij eerder genoemde problemen binnen interactieve visualisatie naar voren kwamen. De discussie vond ik persoonlijk minder interessant maar er kwamen wel enkele, nieuwe aspecten naar voren.</p>
<p>Samenvattend gezien was het een interessante dag. Het is duidelijk dat Nederland op sommige, voornamelijk het interactieve, aspect achterloopt in visualisatie ten opzichte van andere landen. Er is echter, zoals de titel van het seminar aangeeft, beweging. De sprekers van het seminar hebben laten zien dat dit een belangrijk, relevant en  nieuw veld is. En ik denk dat we langzaam, door middel van <em>trial &amp; error</em>, vooruitgang zullen maken.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend introduced me to xkcd with this picture two years ago. But even though I have since that time seen a lot of work of Randall Munroe, I consider this my favorite.]]></description>
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<p>A friend introduced me to xkcd with this picture two years ago. But even though I have since that time seen a lot of work of Randall Munroe, I consider this my favorite.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s quite empty at the moment but I will soon fill it with thesis related subjects. The location is http://www.marijerooze.nl/thesis.]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[No physical cards from me this year, but to just put something out there I adjusted an illustration I made last year in Inkscape.]]></description>
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<p>No physical cards from me this year, but to just put something out there I adjusted an illustration I made last year in Inkscape.</p>
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