Wiki (32-60)

Question 1

Data Visualization

Answer 1

A growing area of content creation in which information is represented graphically and often interactively.

Question 2

What can Data Visualization be used for?

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

Tools for data visualization?

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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.

Question 4

Embed

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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.

Question 5

How is embeding often done/used?

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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.

Question 6

Filter bubble

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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.

Question 7

What are some results of using Filter bubble?

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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.

Question 8

hashtag

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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.

Question 9

What does HTML stand for?

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Hypertext Markup Language

Question 10

HTML

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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.

Question 11

What is the main objective of HTML?

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The main objective of HTML is to allow web browsers to interpret and display the content written between the tags.

Question 12

What is HTML considered?

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HTML can be considered code, but it is not a programming language; it’s a markup language, which is a separate beast.

Question 13

What is the latest version of HTML?

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The latest standard of HTML is HTML5, which adds powerful interactive functionality.

Question 14

Describe the latest version of HTML:

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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.

Question 15

What does HTTP stand for?

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Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

Question 16

HTTP

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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.

Question 17

hypertext

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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.

Question 18

how is hypertext done?

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Links can be attached to text or graphic objects and images.The user clicks the link to go to another HTML document.

Question 19

internet

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The internet is a massive publicly accessible computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide.

Question 20

The internet includes

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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.

Question 21

How is data on the internet transmitted?

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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.

Question 22

what does TCP/IP stand for?

Answer 22

Transfer Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.

Question 23

JavaScript

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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.

Question 24

How is Java script interpreted?

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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.

Question 25

Legacy media

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An umbrella term to describe the centralized media institutions that were dominant during the second half of the 20th century, including — but not limited to — television, radio, newspapers and magazines, all which generally had a uni-directional distribution model.Legacy media sits in contrast with social media, where the production and sharing is of equal weight to the consumption.

Question 26

Legacy Media is sometimes referred to:

Answer 26

Sometimes “legacy media” is used interchangeably with “MSM,” for “Mainstream Media.”

Question 27

Location based

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A location-based service (LBS) is a software application for a IP-capable mobile device that requires knowledge about where the mobile device is located.

Question 28

Location based services (LBS) can be:

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Location-based services can be query-based and provide the end user with useful information such as “Where is the nearest ATM?” or they can be push-based and deliver coupons or other marketing information to customers who are in a specific geographical area. This has become more and more important with the expansion of the smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices.

Question 29

LSB requires how many basic components?

Answer 29

An LBS requires five basic components: the service provider’s software application, a mobile network to transmit data and requests for service, a content provider to supply the end user with geo-specific information, a positioning component (for example, GPS) and the end user’s mobile device.

Question 30

Location based services and law:

Answer 30

By law, location-based services must be permission-based. That means that the end user must opt-in to the service in order to use it. In most cases, this means installing the LBS application and accepting a request to allow the service to know the device’s location.