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Whoa. What did I just read? I think most of you know of Freakonomics, but in case you don't, it started as a book in 2005, by economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner. The book examines corners of life (like cheating in sumo) through data.
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In the winter of 1969, Virginia Scofield faced a daunting challenge. It was a recurring challenge—more like a nightmare—and she had already failed miserably at her first attempt. This particular obstacle was one that most people consider themselves lucky to never face: undergraduate organic chemistry. At the time, Virginia was a biological sciences student at the University of Texas. Her career plan bumper sticker could have read “Ph.D. or Death!”
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Ignite/Get Your Foo On: The Doodle Revolution at O’Reilly Foo Camp | Sunni Brown
For those of you who are aware of the Ignite presentation format, I probably don’t have to tell you how nerve-wracking it is. 5 minutes, 20 slides, 15 seconds per slide and you have zero control of the slide transitions. Hello. My worst nightmare as a presenter. To top off the format challenge, this particular Ignite presentation on The Doodle Revolution was done at O’Reilly’s Foo Camp , quite possibly the brainiest gathering of brainiacal brainiacs on the West Coast.Powered by WordPress and awesome Thematic Theme Framework | All content Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial David McCandless 2009 (unless otherwise stated) | Contact
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Mac OS X only: We love dressing up our desktops with multi-monitor wallpapers , but if you're a Mac user, getting one image to span multiple desktops is a pain. Free application MultiScape makes it easy. Lifehacker reader and MultiScape developer David Zwerdling writes:
Lifehacker - MultiScape Spans a Single Image Across Multiple Des
Wrapping your brain around data online can be challenging, especially when dealing with huge volumes of information. And trying to find related content can also be difficult, depending on what data you’re looking for. But data visualizations can make all of that much easier, allowing you to see the concepts that you’re learning about in a more interesting, and often more useful manner. Below are 50 of the best data visualizations and tools for creating your own visualizations out there, covering everything from Digg activity to network connectivity to what’s currently happening on Twitter. Liveplasma is a music and movie visualization app that aims to help you discover other musicians or movies you might enjoy.
50 Great Examples of Data Visualization | Webdesigner Depot
Narrative 2.0 visualises music. The music was segmented in single channels. The channels are shown fanlike and the lines move from the center away with the time. The angle of the line changes according to the frequency of the channel, while the frequency reaching a high level, the channel becomes highlighted by orange. The visualisation should not necessarily return exact informations, even if the arrangement and uniformity of the music can
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Exhibit : "enables you to create html pages with dynamic exhibits of data collections without resorting to complex database and server-side technologies. The collections can be searched and browsed using faceted browsing. Assorted views are provided including Timelines, tiles, maps, and more...If you just want to show a few hundred records of data on maps, timelines, scatter plots, interactive tables, etc., why bother learning SQL, ASP, PHP, CGI, or whatever when you can just use Exhibit?"
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Data Visualisation References « CrisisMaven's Blog
Please note that pages dedicated to certain subjects or views on the reference sources may not be as complete as the “raw” lists containing references by date since the sorting and mapping process for these “themed” pages may take a while. The top of each page normally tells you though up to which date the sources have been included so that you only have to look up the more recent sources under the respective reference pages. Smogr.com is a semi-daily website concerning all good things urban … by Randy Plemel, … designer & a photojournalist living in New York City. Wolfram Demonstrations Project Wolfram Demonstrations Project … resource using dynamic computation to illuminate concepts in science, technology, mathematics, art, finance …
Data Visualization: Modern Approaches - Smashing Magazine
Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data – tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every project and on every possible occasion. However, to convey a message to your readers effectively, sometimes you need more than just a simple pie chart of your results.