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Colin Megill
Colin Megill

Colin Megill

Editor of pol.is blog
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Colin Megill in Nightingale
Mar 12 · 9 min read

The DVS introduces itself

It was impossibly exciting to see the flood of introductions fly by in the Data Visualization Society slack last…

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Colin Megill
Colin Megill in pol.is blog
May 24, 2017 · 8 min read

Pol.is Case Study: Temperature Check

A common use case for pol.is is temperature checking a community. Let’s take a look at a successful case study.

Scoop (http://www.scoop.co.nz/), an independent newspaper in New Zealand, wanted to check in with its readership base regarding…

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Colin Megill
Colin Megill
Aug 26, 2016 · 3 min read

Graph based privacy for Twitter communities

Twitter offers its users two options: take a profile private and choke off social sharing (defeating the purpose of being on the platform IMO), or allow anyone to tweet and follow. I think Twitter should open up a new option: graph based privacy.

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Colin Megill
Colin Megill in From the WTF? Economy to the Next Economy
Aug 17, 2016 · 5 min read

Automating a Culture of Continuous Feedback

How automating feedback with AI powered conversations can aid decision making in real-time

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Colin Megill
Colin Megill
Jul 6, 2016 · 5 min read

Conversational UI isn’t a fad: a tale of 5 bots here to stay.

“Alexa, could you order more almonds please?”

Platforms that leverage conversational user interactions already fill niches apps do not. Each of these bots exemplifies interesting dimensions of the…

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