VJ Um Amel
VJ Um Amel is the cyborg imagination and the virtual representation of Laila Shereen Sakr, a digital media theorist and artist. She is a creative coder and immersive storyteller known for creating the award-winning media system, R-Shief.
Data-driven Knowledge Production
Web design, Graphic design, and Video Production
Patch Development in Quartz,
MAX/ Jitter. Coding in Processing, Actionscript, Javascript, CSS
MYSQL Database, Drupal, WordPress to archive content
VDMX, Unity, Gephi, D3,
Blender
Application Stack: Couch DB, Elastic Search
Eucalyptus (similar to MTurk) for cloud computing instances
Unreal, Houdini for VR,
Grasshopper
Science
These two cultures have been long recognized as dominating our social, cultural, and educational systems.
Humanities
An outcome of a research project at the Royal College of Art on "Design in General Education" was the statement of a belief in a missing "third area" of education (1979).
Cross, Nigel (1982). Designerly ways of knowing. Design Studies, 3(4) pp. 221–227.
Science
Humanities
Design
Design
- Conception and realization of new things
- Synthesis of form and content
- Process for solving problems that uses both artistic and scientific practices
- At its core, design is the language of modeling; and it is learnable, as it is possible to develop students' aptitudes in the language of the sciences (numeracy) and the language of the humanities (literacy).
| Sciences | Arts & Humanities | Design |
|---|---|---|
| Natural World | Human Experience | Artificial World |
| Controlled experiment, classification, analysis | Analogy, metaphor, evaluation | Pattern-formation, synthesis |
| Objectivity, rationality, neutrality, "truth" | Subjectivity, imagination, commitment, "justice" | Practicality, ingenuity, empathy, "appropriateness" |
Phenomenon of study
Primary method
Primary value
The collected experience of material culture, and the collected skill and understanding embodied in the arts of planning, inventing, making and doing.
Technology
Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere: Politics, Culture and Dissent | Berkman Klein Center (2008).
Twitter API v2
C#
GO
Java
Node.JS
Python
Ruby
r
Basic Visualization Tools
- Google Data Studio
- RawGraphs.io (works with Plotly)
- D3
- Flourish
- Gephi
2016
THANK YOU
@vj_um_amel
How to Study Social Media Data: Analytics and Visualization
Professor Laila Shereen Sakr
UC Santa Barbara
March 24, 2022
Copy of Glitch Nuggets of Resistance
By VJ Um Amel
Copy of Glitch Nuggets of Resistance
!!Con West Keynote, UCSC
