CNG Education Working Group meeting 2025-07-09

A bi-weekly meeting of the CNG Education Working Group

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The CNG Education Working Group

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July 9, 2025

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All: What visualization tool(s) would we want for graphing? (network graph, timeline, ??)
Michelle: Explore Tyler’s obsidian vault
Andrew: Look for a contact who has a background in educational visualization.
- Andrew: Document what we’re looking for help with and share with Michelle.
- Michelle: Outreach on Slack!

Meeting notes repo: https://github.com/cng-education/meeting-notes
- Webpage: https://cng-education.github.io/meeting-notes/
Shared doc for gathering technologies, concepts, etc.: https://docs.google.com/document/d/127cRbNW1KlpBX5wjLRAXHJyGWYVetJxXKtuAwpGzbNA/edit?usp=sharing
Have some non-CNG stuff on there, but indicate the importance of that thing.
Brings back the timeline idea and the importance of how it connects to stuff outside the CNG community
- Think of “vector” and “raster” as y-axis bins, and the x-axis binned into generations / eras over time.
Tyler: A good example of describing tech using history: https://earthmover.io/blog/fundamentals-what-is-cloud-optimized-scientific-data
Tyler’s network visualization of technologies: https://github.com/tylere/obsidian-vault-cng
- How useful is this style of visualization for learners?
- Maybe spatial clustering would help
- Dynamic filtering, interface for exploring the data points.
- https://networkx.org/
- https://d3-graph-gallery.com/network.html
- https://d3js.org/d3-force
- https://g6.antv.antgroup.com/