Brian Sherwin

For quite a while, I have been extremely interested in data visualization. Over the last few years, I have been focused on ways to visualize graph databases (regardless of where the data comes from Using force directed graphs to highlight the similarities or “connected communities” in data is incredibly powerful.

‘There will never be enough nails in the wood.’ The ‘pseudo-Marxist’ Austrian art collective Total Refusal creates short films with visuals generated entirely from within popular video games. In Hardly Working, they train their focus on just a few of the hundreds of non-playable characters who populate the background in the western action-adventure game Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018).

These sources can help broaden your understanding and perspective of a past (and present) you might not be familiar with. Michael Harriot writes in this month’s The Root, that “Black History Month is for White People.” He explains that Black History should simply be seen as American History, and, unfortunately, too many White people are unfamiliar with this history.