Aug 25 2016
A Hack Oregon project is fun and you get to make a contribution. In a project like the Oregon Hunger Equation last spring, everyone is figuring out both how to have fun and collaborate during the length of the project at the same time. The fun part means you get to improvise and invent, hang out […]
Mar 28 2016
Here are the topics that Portland R Users say they are interested in: I’m interested in those topics, too. And the several other data science MeetUps have similar topic profiles. But when people ask to join the Portland Data Science MeetUp, for example, they say they are seeking things like: Networking. Meet people with similar interests. […]
Sep 24 2015
R and Google spreadsheets are powerful partners for verification, exploration and delivery of data to people in communities and organizations. Recently I wrote a convenience wrapper around the gs_upload function in Jenny Bryan’s wonderful googlesheets package. But it takes some context to explain how I use it the way I do and why I think it’s important, so this […]
Dec 03 2013
Sean Murphy and I are continuing to explore the process whereby entrepreneurs and innovators figure out what the minimum viable P (process or practice or platform or product) could be. The idea is that the viable P enables further development and learning. Without a viable P (that’s fully social) we have blind spots that are […]
Nov 12 2013
Working together and staying in touch over more than ten years, Sean Murphy and I have tried a lot of different ways of learning together, from each other and from others. We kept at it and learned from our experience, and we’ve been able to help clients learn. We’ve even helped clients learn to learn. We’ve […]
Oct 10 2013
I was recently hired by the KM4Dev core group to synthesise the results of the three completed tasks and to provide an analysis of insights and recommendations to KM4Dev as to how it could further develop. We agreed that I would write up process notes on my blog, so I expect to write several posts with observations […]
Oct 08 2013
Last week Nancy White and I were in “the hot seat” for the Networked Learning Conference. We decided to talk about blind spots – those things that are right in front of us but for some reason we just don’t see them. Actions built on untested or aged assumptions. Actions based on our own preferences […]
Jul 06 2013
This idea and the code to implement it may be useful in other settings, but I developed it in the context of supporting a community with a largely volunteer organization at its center. At least in my mind the code comes from a point of view. Here’s a picture of what it does: Here […]
Jul 04 2013
A conversation in a bar the other day made me pull out Understanding Practice: Perspectives on Activity and Context (1995). In addition to the diversity of examples in the book’s chapters, Jean Lave’s intro has a statement that I keep coming back to again and again: “Participants in the conference agreed, on the whole, on four […]
Jul 15 2012
In an open space conference like the Community Leadership Summit, according to Harrison Owen’s second principle of Open Space Technology, “Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.” But when we don’t exactly like what happens, we always want to know, Why did it happen that way? I tried to organize a session and […]
Find me here:
