Bill Ferster

Designer | Toolmaker | Educator. Author of Interactive Visualization (MIT '13), Teaching Machines (Johns Hopkins ‘14), Sage on the Screen (Johns Hopkins '16).

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This data visualization by @nicolaraluk shows the occurrence of earthquakes on Earth between July 2017 and July 2018, but differently from other charts, this ones shows them with their depth. Here you can find the interactive version: https://t.co/ctsei4eReO

[Bill Ferster @bferster]

Excited to be working on a classroom simulator for teachers with Harvard's Graduate School of Education. Teaching with Grace (née Liza) helps teachers practice critical teaching skills in a risk-free setting.

Check out the demo video: https://t.co/6bvUDy1PRo (4-mins)

[NYT Health @NYTHealth]

"Flow," he argued, was a state of mind, a level of concentration in which outside stimuli, even time itself, seem to fall away. The psychologist who made the concept a cultural phenomenon has died at 87. https://t.co/Ww9huH7RJb

[Fernanda Viégas @viegasf]

Thinking about grad school next year? Interested in visualization, human/AI interaction, computational art?

Consider Harvard! @wattenberg and I are building up our lab and will be looking for students.
Our DMs are open.

[TechManShaf @TechManShaf]

Congratulations and Goodluck!

[Bill Ferster @bferster]

I'm looking for a co-founder to launch a new people-centric visual meeting app called èt • al, which offers more connectivity than a typical Zoom meeting. We have a robust MVP and hosted several successful meetings already. Here's a 3-min video about it:
https://t.co/q0ClWRt7jZ

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Visual illusion of the month (nothing is actually moving).

[Bill Ferster @bferster]

I've been working on a virtual meeting tool and I'm looking for people to try it out (gratis). Know of any smallish group/conference (50-300 people) this might appeal to? Here's a short video on it: https://t.co/o6B3NpB8TR

[Bill Ferster @bferster]

Introducing èt • al, a new web app we're developing to bring back the personal connection to virtual conferences. Check out the video below (3 mins) https://t.co/NfaVPMpzV5

[IATH @IATH_Virginia]

Virginians can begin in-person voting today! You can vote in person or by mail! You don't need an excuse! You don't need a witness! You can do this! Yes, possibly I've had too much coffee! https://t.co/IpumzJZ4ke

[IATH @IATH_Virginia]

@DH_at_UVA Just realized that the mention of @DigYok really should have included mention of our great and glorious IT specialist Doug Ross, as well as the much missed Robbie Bingler, who put forth much effort and thought into the plumbing and wiring and skeletal structure of the project.

[RJ Andrews @infowetrust]

from Walter Houghton's 1880 political masterpiece

👉see all of his amazing information graphics, just published at https://t.co/xdrvUhBOpf

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Presidential.

[Bill Ferster @bferster]

The sixth in my Merrie Montage series of 3-minute animated films explains cognitive load starting with the phone company in the 1950s. George Miller and other psychologists explored the limits of our memory.
https://t.co/8djRsKbxnL

[Bill Ferster @bferster]

Boxing Cats: Edison and the movies

Just finished the fifth in my Merrie Montage series of 3-minute animated films.

This movie explores Thomas Edison’s journey to invent and popularize the moving pictures as a complete ecosystem.

https://t.co/TWYqQjDrOd

Please share!

[Bill Ferster @bferster]

Just finished the fourth in my Merrie Montage series of 3-min animated films.

https://t.co/swvqHMBR9B

Looks at Skinner’s bizarre plan to use pigeons to guide missiles during WW2 and explore his shaping technique.

Feel free to share...

[Bill Ferster @bferster]

@steph_moore This is the danger of mixing business and education. You’re always in danger of them having to serve their primary master. Money. VC funding is the worst as they have short fuses before they stop funding

[Bill Ferster @bferster]

Merrie Montage #3: The Broad Street Map

Just finished the 3rd in Merrie Montage series of 3-min animations.

https://t.co/mjNz24ryxk

Looks at the story behind John Snow's 1854 London map, an early use of persuasion.

Feel free to share with anyone who might be interested.

[Roya Moussapour @Roya_Moussapour]

reading @bferster's 2014 book Teaching Machines while drafting my thesis proposal and I was struck by a figure in Chapter 5 - it's fascinating to see the complete breadth (for better or for worse) of various districts' approach to distance learning right now.