We are pleased to announce the opening of our consulting division, focused on helping new technologies positively impact people’s lives through user research, social data analytics, prototyping, and knowledge sharing. As a non-profit research and development organization with the mission…
Wrapping Up Our Community Wellbeing Report Pages Prototype at DSSG
During the summer of 2015, we were selected to participate in the University of Washington’s eScience Institute Data Science for Social Good summer incubator program, where we worked with an interdisciplinary group of graduate student fellows and faculty research scientists…
Recipient of Microsoft Azure for Research Award
I’m excited to announce we are a recipient of the Microsoft Azure for Research Award, which includes large allocations of Azure storage and compute resources for a period of a year. While at the iConference in March, I saw a…
Innovative Community of Practice and Civic Tech in the Northwest
I gave a couple of talks in April discussing how to foster innovative communities of practice (one at the Cultural Congress hosted by the Washington State Arts Alliance, and one for the e-gov subcommittee of the CTTAB). Here are the…
Upcoming Seattle Open Data Day
I’ve been helping Seth Vincent (Code for Seattle) organize Seattle Open Data Day with Will Scott at the University of Washington. I strongly encourage you all to go to Seattle Open Data Day, an unconference on open data and civic…
Draft of paper Neighborhood Community Well-being and Social Media
With the transition leaving Microsoft Research and starting up Third Place Technologies, I have not had much time for revising this paper, but still wanted to throw it out for people to read if they are interested. This line of…