Month: May 2017

Google data gif maker

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Google’s News Lab launched a new tool for making basic data GIFs today. While the Data GIF Maker is mostly geared toward journalists, anybody can use it to make some halfway interesting visuals based on all kinds of data. From: techcrunch.com Here´s the link: https://datagifmaker.withgoogle.com/edit

Wordclouds of UK 2017 election manifestos

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Click images for enlarged versions Conservative party manifesto: https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/manifesto2017/Manifesto2017.pdf Labour party manifesto: http://www.labour.org.uk/page/-/Images/manifesto-2017/Labour%20Manifesto%202017.pdf Libdem party manifesto: http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/themes/5909d4366ad575794c000000/attachments/original/1495020157/Manifesto-Final.pdf?1495020157 Wordclouds generated with http://www.wordclouds.com/  Read my research on the construction of immigrants in the UK legislation and admin informative texts: Constructing immigrants in UK legislation and Administration informative texts: A corpus-driven study (2007–2011), Discourse & Society, 28,1,81-103

#CFP Symposium on Learning Analytics in Language Learning & Teaching

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From the EUROCALL mail-list ::::::::::::: Symposium on Learning Analytics in Language Learning and Teaching – Call for Papers Arising from participation in the EU-funded VITAL project (http://project-vital.eu/) the University of Central Lancashire is hosting a one-day symposium on Learning Analytics in Language Learning and Teaching on 17th July 2017 in Preston. The keynote speakers include Professor … Read more