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No, the Kaminoans were not knowingly allied with the Sith, although, like practically everyone else that played a role in the Clone Wars, they were manipulated into being proxies of the Sith Grand Imperative.This is explained in the Clone Wars TV show:Pictured above: Kaminoan Prime Minister, Lama Su, and Dr. Nala Se contact their secret benefactor, Darth Tyranus.To give a basic rundown of how the Clone Army came to be, sometime before 32 BBY, Jedi Master Sifo Dyas began having recurring visions of an impending galaxy wide conflict. Concerned with both the growing political disquiet within the Senate, and the subject matter of these visions (and in legends, the addition of careful prodding conducted by beings with clandestine agendas **cough** Hego Damask **cough**) Sifo Dyas became convinced of an imminent galactic war, and believed that the Jedi Order alone would not able to protect the untold Octillions of sentient beings across the galaxy. Essentially, Sifo Dyas believed that the Republic would need to be militarized, and that an army would be needed to defend it’s citizens. While the Jedi basically branded him a madman and removed him from the high council, other more nefarious beings set their sights on Sifo Dyas, and sought to use his well meaning aim to achieve their own sinister ends.In Legends, it was at a gala on Coruscant that the idea for a clone army was given to Sifo Dyas by a wealthy Mu’un lobbyist, who also offered to help pay for the army. Soon after, Sifo Dyas jettisoned off to Kamino, where he secretly hired the Kaminoans to breed legions of human clones for the Republic.Sifo Dyas shared his plan with only a single person: a childhood friend and fellow Jedi who happened to be one of the only beings who believed Dyas when he claimed to have visions of a future galactic war. This being was, of course, former Jedi Master Dooku. He, like Sifo Dyas, had long become disillusioned with the ineffectiveness of the Senate and the corruption rampant within it, and likewise believed a great political schismatic movement would be formed by the oft neglected outer rim systems. Though Dooku already left the Jedi order, he allied himself with and supported Sifo Dyas in his plan to create an army for the Republic, and even contributed some of his own cash to help finance it.Little did Sifo Dyas know, but by this time, Dooku was already in the clutches of the Sith Lord, Darth Sidious.Not long after the commissioning of the Clone army, Sifo Dyas was killed under mysterious circumstances on Felucia, and his ally Dooku, now under the alias of “Lord Tyranus”, conveniently became the official client of the Kaminoans, and the secret financier of the entire operation.Throughout the next decade, Darth Tyranus not only found a template for the clone army in the Bounty Hunter Jango Fett, but he also continued to serve as the secret client of the Kaminoans, presenting himself as an agent of the Republic.Now, as for the inhibitor chips and “Clone Protocol 66”:As Darth Tyranus reminds the Kaminoans, the inhibitor chips were placed within the brains of the clones specifically to protect against rogue Jedi. As the Jedi were not technically an official part of the Republic, yet still held command over military operations, the Senate needed a way to ensure that any acts of sedition or treason perpetrated by the Jedi could be dealt with by the clones. This is crucial: one must remember that the clones and the Kaminoans worked for the Republic, NOT for the Jedi order. In the case of the clones, their loyalty was specifically to the Republic and it’s commander in chief (aka the Supreme Chancellor), and the Kaminoans were clients of “Lord Tyranus”, who presented himself as a representative for the Republic.We the audience know that Darth Tyranus was a Sith Lord and was also Count Dooku, who was the leader of the CIS, the faction at war with the Republic; but the Kaminoans had no idea. Lama Su implied that he believed Lord Tyranus to be a Jedi, perhaps one in the inner circle of the Supreme Chancellor. Again, we know this not to be true, but the Kaminoans didn’t.Even were they to have discovered that Darth Tyranus was a Sith Lord, I don’t think it would’ve mattered much. The Kaminoans were his vendor and the clones technically belonged to him. It was foolish of the Jedi to lead an army that they didn’t know the origins of. They assumed Sifo Dyas had commissioned it, which was half true, but they didn’t take into account that the Sith has financed it, and took over the project after orchestrating Sifo Dyas’ demise.Regardless, the reason the Kaminoans didn’t tell the Jedi of the true purpose of the inhibitor chip was because “Clone Protocol 66” was specifically created as a safeguard against rogue Jedi. It would literally have defeated the purpose if the Kaminoans had revealed to the Jedi the secret programming the Clones were equipped with to combat any treason committed by Jedi. And moreover, as I said, the Jedi were not clients of the Kaminoans, the Republic and Darth Tyranus were, and Tyranus made it very clear that the Jedi were never to know about the inhibitor chips.So the Kaminoans were not nefarious beings working to destroy the Jedi. They were merely scientists who did as their benefactors instructed. They thought said benefactors worked for the Republic, and had the Republics best interests in mind. They did not know the truth.

Geoff McGhee is an online journalist who spent a year during his John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford interviewing and researching some of the 'thought leaders' of data visualization, whether that be people or organizations. He compiled his research into a video documentary which can and should be viewed at http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/.This is currently the best starting point into the world of data visualization thought leaders that I am aware of.I've listed the individuals highlighted in the video and included their bios below in order of appearance (excuse typos—had to ocr).Fernanda ViegasViegas is a visualization researcher who joined Google's "Big Picture" data visualization group in the summer of 2010, together with her longtime collaborator at IBM Research, Martin Wattenberg. Viegas is known for using visualization to explore social interchanges in email, chat histories and Wikipedia edit trails. Following on their groundbreaking work creating the public visualization tool ManyEyes, Viegas and Wattenberg recently released TimeFlow, a free downloadable chronological analysis tool for journalists and researchers.Martin WattenbergWattenberg is a prominent visualization researcher and artist, known forinfluential works such as the Baby Name Voyager(2005) and the SmartMoneyMap of the Market (1998). The latter was a milestone visualization in the service of journalism, modifying the "treemap" visualization format of Shneiderman to display a live snapshot of the stock market. Wattenberg spent five years at IBM Research, during which time he co-developed the public visualization tool ManyEyes. Along with his longtime collaborator Fernanda Viegas, Wattenberg joined Google's Cambridge-based research lab in the summer of 2010.Ben FryFry's work spans the worlds of science, technology, art and communication. At the MIT Media Lab, he co-developed the open-source programming toolProcessing with Casey Reas. Processing provides a simple, accessible interface for non-programmers to harness the graphics generation capabilities of the Java programming language. He also wrote the book "Visualizing Data“ (2007), which offers detailed step-by-step instructions for creating some of his most well-known visualizations. Fry recently started a new consulting firm called Fathom that is producing interactive visualizations for such clients as GE Healthcare. His work has been shown in major museums around the world.Aaron KoblinAaron Koblin made a splash with "Flight Patterns," (2004) his influentialvisualization of a single day's airtraffic over the United States. Since getting his masters’ degree from UCLA's Design | Media Arts school, he has had a wide-ranging career in design, visualization, and generative art. He has crowd-sourced songs and drawings using Mechanical Turk, Amazon's web-based system for assigning minute tasks, and at Google's Creative Lab he works on "Chrome Experiments,“ a site intended to showcase the advanced features of modern web browsers. He has collaborated with bands like Radiohead, Interpol and the Arcade Fire to create visualization-driven music videos.Jeffrey HeerHeer is a prolific contributor to the field of information visualization. He led the development of three open source toolkits designed to ease the process of creating visualizations: Prefuse (2004), Flare (2008) and Protovis (2009). Heer is also interested in the social interactions around visualization; in 2006 he worked with the IBM researchers Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas to create Sense.us a collaborative visualization tool that allowed users to mark and comment on historical employment data from the U.S. Census Bureau. He teaches a course in data visualization at Stanford.Steve DuenesDuenes manages a staff of about 30 graphics editors doing reporting, 2D and 3D illustration, programming, interactive design, data analysis and cartography. The group has retooled in the past five years, developing an online graphics capacity to match its reputation in print, with an array of new tools, templates, interface conventions and code libraries. "We're now assembling teams with greater numbers of people on them," he says, "than we used to in order to assemble a print graphic."Amanda CoxWith degrees in mathematics, economics and statistics, Cox has brought new refinement and innovation to The Times’ graphical presentations of quantitative data. She frequently uses the statistical applicationR to plot data sets— often using algorithms developed in the academic world—then outputs them either as line art for print publication, or she works with her colleagues to translate them into Flash code for interactive presentations.J. Paige WestAs the director of nbcnews.com - Breaking news, science and tech news, world news, US news, local news's Interactive Studio in Redmond, Wash, Westmanages a group of about a dozen staff divided evenly between developers and designers. The Interactive Studio creates multimedia and interactive features for one of the most popular U.S. news websites, as well as and tools and templates for producers throughout the MSNBC.oom newsroom. In 2009, MSNBC bought the hyper-local data aggregator Everyblock.com opening the door to blending highly detailed local information with MSNBC's nationally-focused news.Scott Byrne-FraserByrne-Fraser is the Creative Director of the BBC News website. He manages a team of about eight designers, eight journalists and four developers who create maps, infographics, charts and data visualizations. He comes from a background producing 3D and motion graphics for broadcast news at Sky Television. He wants to foster collaboration between the traditionally separate on-air and online graphics teams at the BBC. "We‘ve got a huge TV design team, a huge online design team, and they're currently totally separate silos, and I want to bring the two together so we can do more videos online." He is also working to re-orient the group's focus towards more data analysis and visualization.Nigel HolmesThe former graphics director of Time Magazine and a prolific informationgraphics designer, Nigel Holmes is known for tackling complex and difficultsubjects — the Iraq war, the economic crisis, for example— in ways that are clear and engaging. About some contemporary visualizations he says, "it seems to me to be playing with data rather than extracting meaning from it." He is the author of "Wordless Diagrams," a series of visual explanations that uses no text at all. He is a frequent contributor to publications like Good Magazine, The New York Times Op—Ed page, Wired and the Atlantic Monthly.Richard Koci HernandezHernandez is an Emmy-winning visual journalist who worked at the San JoseMercury News for 15 years. As a visiting fellow at the University of California,Berkeley's Knight Center for Digital Media, he conducts research and trainingprograms in multimedia journalism. Visualization has turned out to be the toughest training challenge, he says. "ln terms of multimedia skills, that's been from my experience the one where we‘ve lacked the most."Alberto CairoAlberto Cairo led the El Mundo.es infographics team in the early 2000s, a time when they and their Madrid rivals El Pais were creating some of the most innovative and sophisticated online graphics in the industry. He taughtinformation graphics and design at the journalism school of the University ofNorth Carolina, where he oversaw a number of standout multimedia projectsand authored the handbook" lntogratia 2.0“ a guide to infographics andcartography. Since 2004, he has co-instructed the workshop in onlineinfographics at the University of Navarre in Spain. In 2009 he joined the Brazilian magazine publishing firm Globo as their director of infographics.John GrimwadeGrimwade is a respected information graphics designer and educator. He is the longtime graphics director for Condé Nast Traveler, and was shared withPortfolio Magazine during its brief run that ended in 2009. He teaches information graphics at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and has been an instructor at the "Show Don‘t Tell" workshop at the Malofiej lnfographics Conference in Pamplona since 1993. A veteran of newspaper information graphics at the Times of London, Grimwade has frequently called for data visualizations to be held to strict standards of transparency and clarity.Hannah FairfieldFairfield was a graphics editor for The New York Times from 1999-2010. Inrecent years, she produced the innovative "Metrics" column, a large-formatinformation graphic in the Times’ Sunday business section. With relatively long lead times, she was able to experiment with new graphic forms and sophisticated data presentations of subjects like home foreclosures, unemployment and the difference in salaries between male and female workers. In September 2010, Fairfield became Graphics Director of The Washington Post.Alvaro ValinoValino is part of a five-person team creating information graphics at the Spanish newspaper Publioo. The paper's spare and clean graphic style and ambitious data visualizations netted it 21 medals at the Malofiej awards in 2010, all the more impressive given that the paper was only in its second year of publication. Interestingly, the Publico team has applied a data vis-heavy approach to not only business and hard news stories, but to arts, sports and culture stories, such as graphics exploring EdgarAllen Poe's literary legacy and Paul Newman's career. A visualization of NBA playoff history won a silver medal at Malofiej.Thomas MolenThomas Molen's graphic visualizing votes by country for the 2008 EurovisionSong Contest was a surprise winner of the Malofiej oompetition's prestigious"Best in Show" award for 2010. The graphic sought to investigate whetherEastern European fans voted as a block for other Eastern European countries.Nicholas FeltonNicholas Felton is a graphic designer with an emphasis on visualizaing datathroughout his work. His clients includeCNN, The Wall Street Journal New York Magazine and Wired. Since 2005 he has been publishing personal "annual reports" of his year made with statistical ephemera. In this vein he co-founded the web service Daytum.com which he describes as "a site for counting and communicating daily data." He describes his work variously as "data blogging" and creating "data heirlooms."Eric RodenbeckRodenbeck is a partner in Stamen Design, an influential visualization andinteractive design firm in San Francisco. Stamen's work straddles art, design, news and technology. The company has designed applications and visualizations for clients like MTV, MSNBC, NBC Sports, the London 2012 Olympic Committee, Trulia and others. Stamen's work focuses frequently on visualizing live data streams, such as Twitter activity around entertainment events, or crime data from Oakland and San Francisco. Stamen is a winner of the 2010 Knight News Challenge for a project called "Citytracking", which is intended to help users create visualizations from municipal data.Ola RoslingRosling joined Google in 2007 after its purchase of the nonprofit company called Gapminder that he co-founded with his father, Hans Rosling (the voluble Swedish public health researcher known for his animated TED Talkspresentations on human development). Google incorporated Gapminder's"Trendalyzer" technology for creating animated bubble plots into its onlinespreadsheet tools and, most recently, into a new product called Public DataExplorer.Malofiej Infographics ConferenceThe Malofiej conference and competition is sometimes called "the Pulitzers of information graphics." Held every year since 1993 at the University of Navarre in Pamplona, Spain, it brings together a hundred-plus practitioners of infographics from around the world. It is organized by the Society for News Design, Spain (SND-E). It incorporates workshops, lectures and an awards ceremony that spans a range of breaking news and features categories. In recent years, the most celebrated work has shifted from elaborate illustrations toward abstract and artful representations of data.Dana PriestDana Priest is an investigative reporter forThe Washington Post, celebrated for exposes on conditions in Walter Reed Army Medical Centerand secret CIA prisons She recently co-authored theTop Secret Americaseries on national security contractors, which included a multimedia and data visualization-rich online presentation.One other mentioned in the data journalism video, but not called out with a bio is Mike Bostock, now working for Square. He has developed many of the tools that other online data visualization artists use, such as D3 and Protovis.

Zero attention spam generally caused by devices these days but could be plenty else.I’ve read a lot of excuses like “instructions are bad”. Right. Okay. Probably rare.I’m in grad school again and it’s so flipping easy, not because the material is simple, but because the instructors lay out EXACTLY how assignments should be labeled and turned in. Precisely.The actual content gets a grade, but independent of the content, you basically get like 40% just for doing exactly as instructed.I laughed at first, thinking, “They’re gonna grade us for following directions? Wtf? Too easy.”Omg. I’m still shocked. It’s been 7 weeks and we post our work on a “public” board. I will say clearly that out of over 25+ students, I’m the only one who has consistently turned in work EXACTLY as instructed!What in the hell?! Some decided to do it right the first or second time, but then bailed on it by week 3. They turn in work, but it looks nothing like the PRECISE example. We’re talking about 40% of a grade being a cakewalk with zero effort other than to read and follow.If it says “Hanging indent at 0.5”, then holy moly just hang the indent. Worse, the instructors give us literal TEMPLATES so we just have to substitute the information.Nope. No one bites. I can’t even call it lazy because it’s more work for people to do it their own way. It’s some weird attention span thing because even the content is off.I’m 40 and back in school but most of these students are under 30. By most I mean all.They got used to writing in bursts, like social media posts. Very few of them can write actual papers and such and I don’t understand how they graduated undergrad college.I ran my own business for years and prior to that I was in the Army. I plan to go into the regular workforce after this degree and if school is any indication of what is going on out there, which it may not be but if it is, then I’m gonna totally dominate wherever I end up.By doing nothing else other than following directions and doing good work.My instructors are spot on for making following directions weigh so heavily. I thought they were giving away free As basically but in reality they are causing carnage on inattentive students’ grades.What makes me laugh is that once SOME of us graduate, the others will go on review websites and even Quora to bitch and moan about how unfair and bullshit and scam the program is. Guaranteed.Before I attended, I saw these posts on here. They all seemed like lazy person bullshit, and clearly they are, cause I now experience it in real time.You can build the most complicated furniture by following simple directions.At work or school, it’s not only laid out for you, but if you have any issues AFTER reading, you are allowed to ask for assistance.You only get shit on if it’s determined that you didn’t bother to read or if you were too embarrassed to ask for help earlier and caused a bigger issue.This is how companies get in big trouble. Some person will write a scathing review somewhere, then instead of reading policy on the subject or asking, the marketing person will try to respond but not the established way and then it blows up and somehow it goes viral and next thing you know the CEO is doing a full blown media interview to fix it. Ask Applebees about that.All preventable by just erasing the weird pride or ego that subconsciously blocks the ability to stfu and READ.I wrote this long on purpose just for the readers out there, all 6 remaining on the planet.