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By Sonali Sharma We planned, we progressed and we implemented. Last week D-lab's website went live. This launch gives one a feeling of great anticipation, anxiety but also accomplishment. Developing a plan, organizing a checklist, enabling last minute changes, testing, confronting technical details, and finally pulling the trigger can be a momentous event. We are all very excited to showcase our effort to the world. After a series of brainstorming design sessions and iterations, it is absolutely wonderful to see the fruits of our labor manifested on a beautiful website.

By Hector Fernando Burga The D-Lab Logo was designed through a collaborative process which involved several team members. We first came up with a series of options which presented more literal and formal solutions, but eventually decided to pursue an option that would symbolize a nimble process, flexibility and the networked quality of Data management, production and visualization. The Logo aims to represent the new way seek to work with Data, as well as the manner in which we aim to make Data accessible to users.

By Hector Fernando Burga One of the first challenges that we had as a group was simple: getting organized. This board shows how a number of categories were envisioned at the beginning of our formative process and how we proceeded to self-select among them. Each graduate student researcher placed postid notes on the categories of their choosing. From this colorful arrangement we proceeded to develop a collaborative framework based on the following functioning teams: Space, Research and Development, Services, Infrastructure, Coordination and Communications.