I'd like to share this data-rich piece of research on how a child learns language. The researcher explains how he tracked the way his son learns words from activities within his surrounding social environment by using video analytics tracking the movements of his family members, leaving visual 'interaction traces'.
My interest was in the Data Visualisation and Analysis bits; the minutes 8-11 show the analytical approach by moving time to the vertical axis, and reading the structures of the 'social hotspots' and then tagging the activities that accompanied certain words to figure out the relationships between language learning and social activities. Intensively rich data is visualised in a form of data landscapes that reveal interesting relations.
The video is on TED:
Deb Roy: The birth of a word
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