This essay offers five conceptual entry points for engaging with Big Data from a rhetorical perspective. These concepts—data in/as relationships, observability/action, patterns, diachronicity, and audience—serve as of deep commonality between definitions principles in studies, are offered here considerations critiquing uses rhetorical-humanistic perspective, well guiding work that Data.

Paul and Zheng et al. challenge our conclusions regarding the flight of Confuciusornis and Archaeopteryx, which derive from our method of assessing flight ability from estimated feather strength. They suggest that our mass and rachis data for these fossil birds are incorrect. Neither comment, however, invalidates our method nor alters conclusions of poor flight ability based upon our original d...

We demonstrate the Electronic Cocktail Napkin, a pen based interface for conceptual design. The project goal is to support design by recognizing, interpreting, and managing drawings, and to serve as an interface for knowledge-based critiquing, simulation, and information retrieval. We demonstrate the Napkin’s facilities for end-user programmable recognition and interpretation, drawing managemen...

This paper reports on the Flat-pack Furniture Design Critic (FFDC). By analyzing the literature of architecture education, we have identified critiquing methods: delivery types (interpretation, introduction, example, demonstration, and evaluation) and communication modalities (written comments, graphical annotations, and images). Our FFDC uses these methods to deliver feedback. This paper also ...

For medical directors, keeping up with the medical literature means not only staying clinically abreast of developments in medicine, but also appraising morbidity and mortality data for their insurance implications. One of the obstacles to morbidity and mortality data analysis, whether formal (mortality abstract preparation) or informal (simply estimating risk or general prognosis), is the abse...

This article provides a review and update of the ideas contained in a PhD dissertation that was authored by Australian lawyer Christine Burns in 2007, entitled 'Online Legal Services-A Revolution that Failed?' It explores several themes that are found in her work: the knowledge acquisition bottleneck, combining people and software, combining different technology paradigms, and combining people ...

Comparative judgment is gaining popularity as an assessment tool, including for high-stakes testing purposes, despite relatively little research on the use of technique. Advocates claim two main rationales its use: that comparative valid because humans are better at than absolute judgment, and it distils aggregate view expert judges. We explore these contentions. argue psychological underpinnin...