Data & Stuff // Neil Houston

For those interested in Data Visualisation, you might be interested in the SameAs event that myself and a few colleagues attended.  Some of the videos are online:

Alastair Dant (Recommended!)
Head of Interactive Development at The Guardian
http://vimeo.com/channels/sameas#21911927

Mark Graham
Geomapping expert
http://vimeo.com/channels/sameas#21886943

Andrew Walkingshaw
Co-founder of Timetric
http://vimeo.com/channels/sameas#21856570

Brock Craft
Research Fellow at the London Knowledge Lab
http://vimeo.com/channels/sameas#21912974

Thomas Down
Creator of the genome browser Dalliance
http://vimeo.com/channels/sameas#21914592

Noah Iliinsky
Co-author of Beautiful Visualisation
http://vimeo.com/channels/sameas#21914387

As I mentioned in my first, and second pieces on hearing. I’ve finally got around to ‘getting fixed’. Which was the general theme of 2010.

It may have involved some tears, some nasal surgery, and a couple of oticon hearing aids; though now I am fixed. To some degree of normality.

Hearing things is still odd. The fact that I can’t bear my favourite coffee shop, as it now seems too loud. The fact that I can hear 8 different conversations going on around me, when I just want to read the paper. Luckily there’s a volume control, but with time I’ll get used to that.

Overall with hearing, it’s all been great. The only things I don’t like are
- The fact that I have hearing aids (yes I know you lot don’t care, but I do).
- I can’t easily listen to my iPod with them in.
- The way it makes my tinnitus seem much more profound when I don’t have them in. So waking up in bed, and getting to sleep can drive me mad!

The good things though:
- I can hear.
- I don’t need to blag conversations.
- I’m more aware of my surroundings.
- I don’t feel broken.

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