Day in and day out, I follow the news. I don’t just read it, I sometimes share stories on social media. I sometimes react to or comment on others’ posts too.
And sometimes I get into discussions with people on different ends of the political spectrum. In all my years of social media activity (and boy, am I active), I’ve only unfriended someone once because of political views. And that is because I understood words of his to flat out deny Israel’s right to exist and the tone was, in my estimation, anti-Semitic as well.
Afterwards, a mutual acquaintance tried to understand what happened, and I saw then as we went over it, that I might’ve misinterpreted. I tell this because this has been a difficult news week. We’ve all seen ugliness in how people reacted to the Kavanagh nomination process. And still, even when disagreeing with opinions of fellow high school classmates, for instance, I’ve not unfriended anyone. I’ve seen many go that route or advise others to, but I cannot. To eliminate people from my universe just because I do not agree with their views, will leave me in an insulated universe in which I am unaware of any but my own. That’s not for me.
I want to understand how others think, even if I disagree with them. Sometimes, I try to correct a misconception (how I wish people would not post memes without actually searching to verify the veracity of the quotes being attributed to the people whose pictures they are written so boldly on). Sometimes I try to argue a specific point. On those rare occasions that I get acknowledgement on that narrow point (boy, how many do enjoy whataboutism and deflecting, no matter what the topic!), it feels like a pyrrhic victory, because so much else associated with the error is still believed. I understand that people prefer to fit what goes on in the world to the narrative they carry around in their head. My theory is that it is tied to pride and self-esteem. To change tracks would be to admit they were wrong in where they were going, and heaven forbid that happen.
The emperor’s new clothes and all that. But knowing this doesn’t make it any easier. It also does not help to know how different people’s news feeds are. Not only will mine be filled with stories from the news pages I follow, but also from articles shared by my friends and the groups I belong to, all likely similar to my world view. For me to understand what the “other” side is seeing requires a bit of effort. I can search for the stories that the memes they post relate to, and find versions of it everywhere, mostly on sites that are far from the center. (I do like as a way to evaluate those sites I am not familiar with.
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Though not scientific, I find its methodology to be consistent across the spectrum.) This tells me that there is likely a good chance that the social media news feed of those with whom I don’t see eye to eye is far different from mine. Forget seeing things in a different light, they may not even be aware of the stories that crowd mine.
And they may not even be aware of that which fills my consciousness. It goes two ways. With print newspapers and daily news shows no longer a thing of most people’s daily lives, the news people hear is more influenced by what they want to hear than by anything else.
This is a pity because it will only lead to more and more of a disconnect. I don’t know what others do, but I’ve also always gone to for a round up of stories and sources. I keep a tab open all day when I at work, just as I do for, and refresh it periodically. What do you do to ensure that the news you consume is not limited to only a few sources or only sources that are already in the camp you want to stand in?
How do you broaden your view to find out what others are seeing? Born in Brooklyn and raised on Lawn Guyland, Wendy lived in Jerusalem for over a decade submerged in Israeli culture; she has been soaked in Southern life in metro Atlanta since returning to the U.S. Recently remarried, this Ashkenazi mom of three Mizrahi sons, 26, 23 and 19, splits her time between managing knowledge in corporate America, pursuing a dual masters in public administration and integrated global communications, blogging, relentlessly Facebooking, once-in-a-while veejaying, enjoying the arts and digging out of the post-move carton chaos of her and her husband's melded household.
Is there a flowchart tool that will automatically draw (align, reposition) a chart based on given information? I'd like to add blocks to a chart, create relationships between them and then have the software reposition the blocks and lines so it can be easily readable.
Then I can add more blocks/relationships and repeat the process. Basically, I want to design a program in flowcharts without the hassle of planning where would I put what visually. I know there are a lot of tools for drawing a flowchart (eg. Visio, Dia, LucidChart, etc), but I'm asking for one with this functionality (I don't know if they have it or not). I'm not asking for the BEST one, I just want ANY that will do the job. EDIT: While DOT engine is a great tool, it's input system doesn't work for me. I'd like to be able to edit the chart as is (without having to input data via text language) and then have a button or something that would realign all the elements in a way the are easily readable (eg.
As few relationship crossing as possible and similar). Closed as off-topic by, Apr 9 '15 at 7:22 This question appears to be off-topic. The users who voted to close gave this specific reason:. 'Questions asking us to recommend or find a book, tool, software library, tutorial or other off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. Instead, and what has been done so far to solve it.' – Pang, Ganesh Sittampalam, bummi, Mooseman, J. Steen If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the, please.
As far as I understand, the feature you are looking for in graph drawing is called 'incremental layout' or 'partial layout'. Incremental layout will help you make incremental changes to a graph or network (adding or removing nodes or edges) and then will recalculate the layout ('align the nodes'), adjust the edge paths and possibly rearrange the labels in order to get a nice new picture.
The difference to a full layout from scratch is that the location of the existing elements is considered for the new layout and new elements are inserted into the drawing in order to not completely destroy the mental picture of the drawing in the mind of the user. This might result in the original elements being moved (e.g.
In order to compact regions where elements have been removed), but the relative positions of the existing elements to each other is kept. Partial layout will not change any of the existing elements but will apply the new layout to that part of the graph that is 'new', only. This keeps the locations and paths of the existing elements, but might lead to less optimal results. To my best knowledge these features are available only in very few graph drawing libraries. Only for the conceptionally very simple algorithms (those based on spring embedders and maybe tree layouts), this feature is easy to implement and thus might be available in more libraries. The company I work for provides the for Java,.net, and Javascript.
These libraries. The only other library that I am aware of that should be able to supports these kind of features is. Check this logical process flowcharts:.
The usage example. It's collaborative, free and you can manage the node descriptions independently from flowcharts and use them in the modular system of flowcharts. Moreover, you get XML specification of the flowcharts to generate rich graphical application (HTML+SVG+CSS) or other manipulations. Currently, new users have to request a user account through email. The flowchart is drawn from specification using the flowcharting rules like links flow to down and right.