1. My Past, Present, and Future
Mashup
Melda M. Washington
Information Culture, December 10, 2012
2. Overview
Mashup: Frankenstein of the Web
Immediate gratification:
Dopamine Squirters
Information aesthetics
Where Data and Design meet Food?!
Usability
Drupal 7 — A Usability Learning Experience
Agility in a time of rapid change
The Power of the Swarm
Database Programing
SELECT Future FROM UB_Students WHERE
Name='Melda Washington' AND Class='IDIA 620' AND
Year='2020'
3. Mashups: Frankenstein of the
Web
A mashup is anything that
results from a combination of
data from different sources.
Mashup website consists of
several API’s
Early days of
mashups, programmers had to
web scrape websites to obtain
useful data.
Today, companies allow
mashup creators to utilize their
APIs for their applications as a
way of getting more exposure
for their products; thus
opening the gates for an
increasing rate of mashup site
4. Dopamine Squirters
Primary neurotransmitter found in the brain
that is responsible for happiness and other
emotions.
Provides feelings of enjoyment and
reinforcement that motivate a person
proactively to ―feel good.‖
Provides immediate gratification
Programmableweb lists 173 mashups tagged
games.
Most poplar are FlickerSudoku and Wii Earth.
APIs used include:
Flicker, MicrosoftBingMaps, GoogleMaps
5. My Past: Immediate gratification
Stems from my past experiences with my mother
Taught me how to sew
Data:
Fabric
Notions (zippers, buttons, snaps, etc.)
Thread
Processor:
Sewing machine
Hand
Object:
Finished Garment
6. Where Data and Design meet
Food?!
The Open Data Cooking Workshop
Data Visualization that You Can Eat
Mashup of two topics, four ingredients and find
relations.
The workshop researches ways to represent local
data through the inherent qualities of food such as
color, form, texture, smell, taste, nutrition, origin, etc.
Tasty Tweets
A data visualization experiment that allows users to
explore current twitter trends through taste.
Mashup using the Twitter API
7. My Past: Information Aesthetics
Immediate gratification:
Dopamine Squirters
Information aesthetics:
Where Data and Design meet Food?!
Usability:
Drupal 7 A Usability Learning Experience
Agility in a time of rapid change:
The Power of the Swarm
Database Programing:
SELECT Future FROM UB_Students WHERE
Name='Melda Washington' AND Class='IDIA 620'
AND Year='2020'
8. Drupal 7 — A Usability Learning
Experience
Drupal 7 Usability Study at Google
Eight tech-savvy Google employees for one hour
usability sessions.
Emotions Mashup of what rookie Drupal users
feel…
confused and overwhelmed by Drupal’s presentation
of features/options.
alienated by unexplained terminology throughout
Drupal.
helpless because of a perceived lack of support.
in the dark about the extent of Drupal’s capabilities.
uncertain about his/her progress while performing
tasks.
stupid because they assume they are using Drupal
―incorrectly.‖
9. My Present: Drupal Usability
Experience
Redesign and CMS implementation of its
existing collections online search. The
redesigned collections online infrastructure
should improve the search site’s ease of
use, provide, and allow users access to the
most up-to-date content.
Freer|Sackler migration from Classic
ASP/Coldfusion to Drupal
Integrate DAMS and IDS
10. The Power of the Swarm
Kevin Kelly’s New Rules for the New Economy focus
on quotes that address the swarm
The aim of swarm power is superior performance in a
turbulent environment
Digital Swarming
Defined as a mashup of people, data, objects, and
machines
The Internet made collecting the wisdom of crowds much
easier than before.
When the swarm is diverse, independent and
decentralized, their combined decisions define the next big
trend.
Prediction Markets
It addresses the need for agility in the face of rapid change
11. My Future: Remaining Agile
Need to remain agile in a time of rapid
technology changes
Keep current
Certifications
Continuing education
Stay diverse
Embrace the Swarm
The competitive advantage belongs to those who
learn how to embrace decentralized points of
control.
12. My Future: SELECT Future FROM UB_Students
WHERE Name='Melda Washington' AND
Class='IDIA 620' AND Year='2020'
Top 10 careers in 2020
1. Data crunching – tapping into vast databases
to gather info and make sense of that
information to gain insight.
Marketing and market research are two fields where
the use of data is exploding.
Characteristics of the DBA
Love Technology Dependable
Like a Challenge Realistic
Problem Solving Flexible
Detail Oriented Patient
13. My Future: Database
Programming
Analytical skills
Evaluate complex information that comes from a variety of
sources.
Communication skills
Communicate effectively with developers, managers, and
others.
Detail oriented
Understand complex systems. Minor errors can cause
major problems.
Logical thinking
Use software to analyze information. Arrange and organize
it into meaningful information.
Problem-solving skills
Able to diagnose and correct problems.
