Category Archives: Visualizations

Rethinking Debates project kicks off with full-length feature on EDV

Earlier this week, EDV was the subject of a full-length feature in the  Rethinking Debates  project. This is the first of a global series of reports on the impact of technology on the electoral process, launched by Civic Hall, a US-based community centre for the world’s civic innovators. After interviewing EDV’s PI Stephen Coleman from […]

EDV at ECA Lisbon 2015

Last week, I attended the 1st European Conference on Argumentation, 9-12 June 2015, in Lisbon, Portugal. EDV contributed a paper on our analysis of Fair Play: a semi-automatic method to determine how well participants in an election debate follow the “rules of the game”. In this case, the method uses democratic entitlements as the basis for these rules. The slides […]

EDV showcase at the OU’s Charter Day Learn About Fair

Last week, EDV had a spot on in KMi’s stand on this year’s OU Learn About Fair. The Fair, part of the University’s Charter Day on 23rd April 2015, is an opportunity for showcasing research and innovation across the OU. Our stand featured the latest version of Democratic Replay with enhanced video replays of the recent ITV Leaders’ Debate and one last […]

Paul Wilson’s seminar at the OU’s Knowledge Media Institute

Design has a role in working for the ‘common good’, playing a significant part in our engagement with the world and, within the Election Debate Visualisation project, working to translate data into compelling, engaging and illuminating stories. The design thread within the project has begun to investigate visual methods for rapid and semiotically-holistic feedback, and is […]

EDV seminar at the OU’s Knowledge Media Institute

  The OU team presented EDV at a seminar in KMi last Thursday 19 June. Details of the event, a podcast and links to the slides are available below.   The Election Debate Visualisation (EDV) Project This event took place on 19th June 2014 at 11:30am Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK Simon Buckingham Shum, Anna […]

The online debate viewing experience today

Some of the analyses and visualisations that we aim at including as enhancements to the debate viewing experience are already available to viewers. In a previous post, we referred to Demos‘s analysis of tweets in terms of the personality and politics of the Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage in the second EU debate. As another example, Blurrt performed real-time sentiment […]