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[GT] moldable tools for non-developers

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Hi all!

There is this strong movement within Pharo now, that allows developers
to expand the individual development process with the help of moldable
dev tools based on GlamourToolkit (GT).

This allows for a much more effective communication between stakeholders
and developers resulting in a more cost effective development.

While the ambitions behind GT seem to be developer centric, I wonder if
there is also research or development done to support non-developer
pharo users. Are there projects that try to integrate/interface
"modeling" into/with GT? (e.g. like  STELLA [1])

I am also wondering if aspect oriented programming could help closing
the full cycle of an adaptive development/management process. Anybody
researching on something like this?

Thank you for any hint!

Sebastian

[1] https://www.iseesystems.com/


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Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas-2
Hi,


On 27/10/17 10:48, Sebastian Heidbrink via Pharo-users wrote:
> While the ambitions behind GT seem to be developer centric, I wonder
> if there is also research or development done to support non-developer
> pharo users.

Yes. We're trying to bridge the gap between developers and
non-developers (like myself) using moldable environments like Pharo. Our
use case is data activism, visualization and storytelling. So our
intended users are people coming from any of such fields that don't
develop app, but try to tell factual stories supported by data and/or
visualizations. For that I have developed the Grafoscopio[1] tool and
the Data Week workshop+hackathon [2], were we approach the gap between
devs and other users from the point of critical data & software literacy
(pretty far away from the "Hello World" introduction to programming[3]).

[1] http://mutabit.com/grafoscopio/index.en.html
[2] http://mutabit.com/dataweek/
[3] http://mutabit.com/offray/blog/en/entry/dumb-hello-world

Pharo, agile visualization and moldable tools have allowed me to explore
my PhD question about "How we can change the digital tools that change
us?" from this critical approach to data/tech, tools and literacy
for/from activism.

Cheers,

Offray


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Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list
Hi Offray!

that is kind of what I am looking for. Would you mind if I contacted you
directly?
I am in the process of formulizing a master thesis and would love to
bring Pharo into the mix.

Is you phd thesis public?
I tried to explore software ecosystems in the context of methiation
theory by Peter-Paul Verbeek, but I was not able to design an applied
mater thesis based on such philosopical theory.
This is why the modeling of ecosystems services is a new broad scope
that I will have to narrow down during the next quater.

Sebastian

Am 27.10.2017 um 11:01 schrieb Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas:

> Hi,
>
>
> On 27/10/17 10:48, Sebastian Heidbrink via Pharo-users wrote:
>> While the ambitions behind GT seem to be developer centric, I wonder
>> if there is also research or development done to support non-developer
>> pharo users.
> Yes. We're trying to bridge the gap between developers and
> non-developers (like myself) using moldable environments like Pharo. Our
> use case is data activism, visualization and storytelling. So our
> intended users are people coming from any of such fields that don't
> develop app, but try to tell factual stories supported by data and/or
> visualizations. For that I have developed the Grafoscopio[1] tool and
> the Data Week workshop+hackathon [2], were we approach the gap between
> devs and other users from the point of critical data & software literacy
> (pretty far away from the "Hello World" introduction to programming[3]).
>
> [1] http://mutabit.com/grafoscopio/index.en.html
> [2] http://mutabit.com/dataweek/
> [3] http://mutabit.com/offray/blog/en/entry/dumb-hello-world
>
> Pharo, agile visualization and moldable tools have allowed me to explore
> my PhD question about "How we can change the digital tools that change
> us?" from this critical approach to data/tech, tools and literacy
> for/from activism.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Offray
>
>
>


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Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas-2
Hi Sebastian,


On 27/10/17 13:15, Sebastian Heidbrink via Pharo-users wrote:
> that is kind of what I am looking for. Would you mind if I contacted
> you directly?
> I am in the process of formulizing a master thesis and would love to
> bring Pharo into the mix.
>

No problem. Contact me. This weekend is a little bit busy with some
deadlines I need to reach, but next week is fine.

> Is you phd thesis public?
It is at [1], with a public repository of the research artifacts since
2011 (before open research was in fashion :-P), but it is in Spanish.
Sorry. I didn't have the time to clarify my mind about this research and
also improve my English. But I would be glad to discuss it in English
with you or anyone interested. You're very welcomed.

[1] http://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/doctorado-offray/

Cheers,

Offray


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Stephane Ducasse-3
Hi offray

What I would like to know is what are the kind of mathematical support you need
for your data analyses and that is not support by polymath.

I'm "working" (well sweet dream) on future book on collective
intelligence, basic AI stuff
and I think that roassal is cool but you need to have also filtering
and empowering the data.

So what did you miss?
I want powerful data journalists (they are important for our world).


Stef

On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 8:38 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Sebastian,
>
>
> On 27/10/17 13:15, Sebastian Heidbrink via Pharo-users wrote:
>> that is kind of what I am looking for. Would you mind if I contacted
>> you directly?
>> I am in the process of formulizing a master thesis and would love to
>> bring Pharo into the mix.
>>
>
> No problem. Contact me. This weekend is a little bit busy with some
> deadlines I need to reach, but next week is fine.
>
>> Is you phd thesis public?
> It is at [1], with a public repository of the research artifacts since
> 2011 (before open research was in fashion :-P), but it is in Spanish.
> Sorry. I didn't have the time to clarify my mind about this research and
> also improve my English. But I would be glad to discuss it in English
> with you or anyone interested. You're very welcomed.
>
> [1] http://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/doctorado-offray/
>
> Cheers,
>
> Offray
>
>

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Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas-2
Hi Stef,

Is kind of strange, but I didn't use Polymath at all for my prototypes
on medicine data visualization[1] Panama Papers[2] or Twitter Data
Selfies[3] or the book on Data Driven Journalism[4]. I just use Roassal,
UDBC with Sqlite, NeoJSON and STON. So it may sound strange, but I think
that Pharo is already a pretty good contestant on the area of Data
Driven Storytelling, if we provide a more integrated "end user"
experience (that's what I'm trying to do with Grafoscopio). Things like
a better support for Markup languages with syntax highlighting and
orthographic corrector (via GT-Documenter?), better GUI for querying
data in SQL, are a felt needs and also integration with R has been asked. 

[1] http://mutabit.com/offray/blog/en/entry/sdv-infomed
[2] http://mutabit.com/offray/blog/en/entry/panama-papers-1
[3] http://mutabit.com/offray/blog/en/entry/ds-twitter-mockup
[4] http://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/mapeda/

That being said, I think that if we have something like Polymath
integration and Math rendering inside Pharo, something like a
Mathematica/Jupyter/TeXmacs notebook can be just around the corner, with
a pretty superior DOM (live objects all the way down) and environment. I
think that we could have a killer app for a growing niche! The main
issue now is to provide researchers and data driven storytellers with a
mature enough default experience to make them to bet on that Pharo
powered vision of the future.

Cheers,

Offray

On 29/10/17 15:26, Stephane Ducasse wrote:

> Hi offray
>
> What I would like to know is what are the kind of mathematical support you need
> for your data analyses and that is not support by polymath.
>
> I'm "working" (well sweet dream) on future book on collective
> intelligence, basic AI stuff
> and I think that roassal is cool but you need to have also filtering
> and empowering the data.
>
> So what did you miss?
> I want powerful data journalists (they are important for our world).
>
>
> Stef
>
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 8:38 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Hi Sebastian,
>>
>>
>> On 27/10/17 13:15, Sebastian Heidbrink via Pharo-users wrote:
>>> that is kind of what I am looking for. Would you mind if I contacted
>>> you directly?
>>> I am in the process of formulizing a master thesis and would love to
>>> bring Pharo into the mix.
>>>
>> No problem. Contact me. This weekend is a little bit busy with some
>> deadlines I need to reach, but next week is fine.
>>
>>> Is you phd thesis public?
>> It is at [1], with a public repository of the research artifacts since
>> 2011 (before open research was in fashion :-P), but it is in Spanish.
>> Sorry. I didn't have the time to clarify my mind about this research and
>> also improve my English. But I would be glad to discuss it in English
>> with you or anyone interested. You're very welcomed.
>>
>> [1] http://mutabit.com/repos.fossil/doctorado-offray/
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Offray
>>
>>
>