Dietmar Offenhuber
Biographic Data
| ID | 296579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dietmar Offenhuber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dietmar |
| FAMILY NAME | Offenhuber |
| SIGNATURE | OFFENHUBER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8434-7786 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Shapes and frictions of synthetic data
Synthetic data are computer-generated data that mimic and substitute empirical observations without directly corresponding to real-world phenomena. Widely used in privacy protection, machine learning, and simulation, synthetic data is an emerging field only just beginning to be explored in the social sciences and critical data studies. However, recent developments, such as the use of synthetic data in the US Census and American Community Survey, …
Data Materiality and Matters of Communication
This essay examines the gaps between data and the physical world, and how these gaps are increasingly exploited by agents of misinformation. Following Edward Tufte's dictum »above all show the data«, visualization and data analytics are often presented as emancipatory tools to separate the signal from the noise. These tools, however, are silent about how data comes into being, the material conditions and social practices of data collection. Data …
Los Angeles noise array—Planning and design lessons from a noise sensing network
The interaction between environmental noise and the built environment is an often-neglected area in the practice of urban planning and design. Most quantitative research is limited to single value loudness metrics and ignores the more complex spatial nuances of the noisescape. Qualitative soundscape research, on the other hand, is difficult to generalize to the urban scale. We report on an exploratory noise sensing project in Los Angeles, CA that…
IEEE VIS 2016 and 2017 Arts Program Gallery
February 01 2020 IEEE VIS 2016 and 2017 Arts Program Gallery Benedikt Groß, Benedikt Groß Web: https://lab.moovel.com Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Raphael Reimann, Raphael Reimann Web: https://lab.moovel.com Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Philipp Schmitt, Philipp Schmitt Web: https://lab.moovel.com Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Esteban G…
The platform and the bricoleur—Improvisation and smart city initiatives in Indonesia
This article investigates the design and evolution of smart city platforms in the global south using the Indonesian cities of Jakarta and Surabaya as case studies. While smart city projects are often framed in generic rhetoric of efficiency and modernization, the concept was originally formulated for cities in developed countries, and therefore requires adjustment for the local conditions in the developing world. While the former can rely on esta…
Improstructure - an improvisational perspective on smart infrastructure governance
Waste Is Information: Infrastructure Legibility and Governance
Maps of Daesh: The Cartographic Warfare Surrounding Insurgent Statehood
The ongoing Syrian civil war raises new cartographic challenges, including the ethical question of how the self-proclaimed Islamic State should be represented. Based on a comparative study, this article investigates the visual languages of IS sanctuary maps as published by news agencies, intelligence agencies, or circulated by the insurgents themselves. I argue that the statehood of territory held by the IS is symbolically contested through carto…
Uncharted Territoriality in Coproduction: The Motivations for 311 Reporting
A central question for programs that involve constituents in the coproduction of government services is: what motivates constituents to participate? This study compares two perspectives on this question: the traditional public-as-citizen model treats participation as a function of a general civic disposition that extends to many forms of civic and political participation (e.g. volunteering and voting); and we introduce the public-as-partner model…
Infrastructure legibility—a comparative analysis of open311-based citizen feedback systems
During the past decade, most large US cities have implemented non-emergency incident reporting systems via telephone helplines, websites and more recently, mobile applications. Using data from systems operating in the larger Boston area, and spatial and grounded theory analysis of submitted reports, this article investigates the role of design in shaping the interaction between the citizens and the city. It investigates the following questions: W…
Patterns of Choice: The Prix Ars Electronica Jury Sessions
This article investigates the social structures reflected in the annual jury sessions of the Prix Ars Electronica, a major media art competition—the composition, the temporal evolution and ultimately the decisions of these juries. The author focuses on three different structures: the network of co-jurors across different categories and years, the co-artist network formed by the jury decisions, and finally the interaction between these two network…
Visual Anecdote
The discourse on information visualization often remains limited to the exploratory function - its potential for discovering patterns in the data. However, visual representations also have a rhetorical function: they demonstrate, persuade, and facilitate communication. In observing how visualization is used in presentations and discussions, I often notice the use of what could be called "visual anecdotes." Small narratives are tied to individual …
Uncharted Territoriality in Coproduction: The Motivations for 311 Reporting
A central question for programs that involve constituents in the coproduction of government services is: what motivates constituents to participate? This study compares two perspectives on this question: the traditional public-as-citizen model treats participation as a function of a general civic disposition that extends to many forms of civic and political participation (e.g. volunteering and voting); and we introduce the public-as-partner model…
Shapes and frictions of synthetic data
Synthetic data are computer-generated data that mimic and substitute empirical observations without directly corresponding to real-world phenomena. Widely used in privacy protection, machine learning, and simulation, synthetic data is an emerging field only just beginning to be explored in the social sciences and critical data studies. However, recent developments, such as the use of synthetic data in the US Census and American Community Survey, …
Infrastructure legibility—a comparative analysis of open311-based citizen feedback systems
During the past decade, most large US cities have implemented non-emergency incident reporting systems via telephone helplines, websites and more recently, mobile applications. Using data from systems operating in the larger Boston area, and spatial and grounded theory analysis of submitted reports, this article investigates the role of design in shaping the interaction between the citizens and the city. It investigates the following questions: W…
Improstructure - an improvisational perspective on smart infrastructure governance
Maps of Daesh: The Cartographic Warfare Surrounding Insurgent Statehood
The ongoing Syrian civil war raises new cartographic challenges, including the ethical question of how the self-proclaimed Islamic State should be represented. Based on a comparative study, this article investigates the visual languages of IS sanctuary maps as published by news agencies, intelligence agencies, or circulated by the insurgents themselves. I argue that the statehood of territory held by the IS is symbolically contested through carto…
Visual Anecdote
The discourse on information visualization often remains limited to the exploratory function - its potential for discovering patterns in the data. However, visual representations also have a rhetorical function: they demonstrate, persuade, and facilitate communication. In observing how visualization is used in presentations and discussions, I often notice the use of what could be called "visual anecdotes." Small narratives are tied to individual …
Visual Anecdote
The discourse on information visualization often remains limited to the exploratory function - its potential for discovering patterns in the data. However, visual representations also have a rhetorical function: they demonstrate, persuade, and facilitate communication. In observing how visualization is used in presentations and discussions, I often notice the use of what could be called "visual anecdotes." Small narratives are tied to individual …
Patterns of Choice: The Prix Ars Electronica Jury Sessions
This article investigates the social structures reflected in the annual jury sessions of the Prix Ars Electronica, a major media art competition—the composition, the temporal evolution and ultimately the decisions of these juries. The author focuses on three different structures: the network of co-jurors across different categories and years, the co-artist network formed by the jury decisions, and finally the interaction between these two network…
Infrastructure legibility—a comparative analysis of open311-based citizen feedback systems
During the past decade, most large US cities have implemented non-emergency incident reporting systems via telephone helplines, websites and more recently, mobile applications. Using data from systems operating in the larger Boston area, and spatial and grounded theory analysis of submitted reports, this article investigates the role of design in shaping the interaction between the citizens and the city. It investigates the following questions: W…
Uncharted Territoriality in Coproduction: The Motivations for 311 Reporting
A central question for programs that involve constituents in the coproduction of government services is: what motivates constituents to participate? This study compares two perspectives on this question: the traditional public-as-citizen model treats participation as a function of a general civic disposition that extends to many forms of civic and political participation (e.g. volunteering and voting); and we introduce the public-as-partner model…
Waste Is Information: Infrastructure Legibility and Governance
Maps of Daesh: The Cartographic Warfare Surrounding Insurgent Statehood
The ongoing Syrian civil war raises new cartographic challenges, including the ethical question of how the self-proclaimed Islamic State should be represented. Based on a comparative study, this article investigates the visual languages of IS sanctuary maps as published by news agencies, intelligence agencies, or circulated by the insurgents themselves. I argue that the statehood of territory held by the IS is symbolically contested through carto…
Improstructure - an improvisational perspective on smart infrastructure governance
The platform and the bricoleur—Improvisation and smart city initiatives in Indonesia
This article investigates the design and evolution of smart city platforms in the global south using the Indonesian cities of Jakarta and Surabaya as case studies. While smart city projects are often framed in generic rhetoric of efficiency and modernization, the concept was originally formulated for cities in developed countries, and therefore requires adjustment for the local conditions in the developing world. While the former can rely on esta…
Data Materiality and Matters of Communication
This essay examines the gaps between data and the physical world, and how these gaps are increasingly exploited by agents of misinformation. Following Edward Tufte's dictum »above all show the data«, visualization and data analytics are often presented as emancipatory tools to separate the signal from the noise. These tools, however, are silent about how data comes into being, the material conditions and social practices of data collection. Data …
Los Angeles noise array—Planning and design lessons from a noise sensing network
The interaction between environmental noise and the built environment is an often-neglected area in the practice of urban planning and design. Most quantitative research is limited to single value loudness metrics and ignores the more complex spatial nuances of the noisescape. Qualitative soundscape research, on the other hand, is difficult to generalize to the urban scale. We report on an exploratory noise sensing project in Los Angeles, CA that…
IEEE VIS 2016 and 2017 Arts Program Gallery
February 01 2020 IEEE VIS 2016 and 2017 Arts Program Gallery Benedikt Groß, Benedikt Groß Web: https://lab.moovel.com Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Raphael Reimann, Raphael Reimann Web: https://lab.moovel.com Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Philipp Schmitt, Philipp Schmitt Web: https://lab.moovel.com Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Esteban G…
Shapes and frictions of synthetic data
Synthetic data are computer-generated data that mimic and substitute empirical observations without directly corresponding to real-world phenomena. Widely used in privacy protection, machine learning, and simulation, synthetic data is an emerging field only just beginning to be explored in the social sciences and critical data studies. However, recent developments, such as the use of synthetic data in the US Census and American Community Survey, …
Computer Science (11 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Data Visualization and Analytics (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)