I just found this interesting post introducing the subject of informal logic, a more formal way of describing what we call argumentation theory, or "the stuff what we do in this module". It is a useful but very light overview of how everyday argumentation relates to formal logical reasoning. What is interesting though is that the company whose blog this post is on develops argumentation visualisation software for use in online opinion research and public consultation. It is not as advanced as Araucaria, and delib appears to be taking a different approach to ours in the development of MAgtALO. Nevertheless it looks nice, and that is usually half the battle when getting user uptake, engagement and participation. An example of the kind of argumentation visualisation that the amap software provides:
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Simon Wells is an academic researching Argumentation Theory, Automated Reasoning, Intelligent Agents (IA) and MultiAgent Systems (MAS) all approached through a ludic lens.
He is particularly interested in how these tools can be usefully applied to critical literacy, security, gamification, and complex systems.
TwitterData Visualisation: Making a Living
- News & Media - Producing visualisations that make the complex data sets underpinning the new understandable to the layman.
- Design Studios - Working hand-in-hand with designers to do branding and installations.
- Analytics Groups - Supporting decision making processes by enabling business and government to make sense of the huge datasets that they are gathering.
- Research Labs & Academics - Coming up with new ways to visualise data; designing, experimenting, and analysing, then writing papers to publicise it.
- Freelancing & Consulting - Providing visualisation expertise to companies that need a one-off visualisation or who don't have sufficient volume to support a dedicated staff.
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