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This paper is a preliminary activity of the DESIS Digital Social Innovation Research Cluster, with the purpose to elaborate the cases of the Social Innovation index, from the projects NT100 and digitaleurope.eu, by framing the analysis with the lens of design. We approach the analysis by information visualization methods and data manipulation tools, and in the paper we present process and results of the visualization, and the discussion of the stories we gather through the analysis. We conclude by discussing the lesson learn by this cases study analysis that privileged the heuristics of digital tools to the hermeneutics of more traditional research approaches.
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Valsecchi, F., Gong, M. (2014). Design Implications of Digital Social Innovation: A Playful Approach to Analyse Cases Study Dataset. In: Rau, P.L.P. (eds) Cross-Cultural Design. CCD 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8528. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07308-8_35
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