40 Essential Tools and Resources to Visualize Data. One of the most frequent questions I get is, "What software do you use to visualize data? " A lot of people are excited to play with their data, but don't know how to go about doing it or even start. Here are the tools I use or have used and resources that I own or found helpful for data visualization – starting with organizing the data, to graphs and charts, and lastly, animation and interaction.
Organizing the Data by sleepy sparrow Data are hardly ever in the format that you need them to be in. PHP was the first scripting language I learned that was well-suited for the Web, so I'm pretty comfortable with it. Python Most computer science types - at least the ones I've worked with - scoff at PHP and opt for Python mostly because Python code is often better structured (as a requirement) and has cooler server-side functions. MySQL When I have a lot of data - like on the magnitude of the tends to hundreds of thousands - I use PHP or Python to stick it in a MySQL database. Ah, good old R. 40 Essential Tools and Resources to Visualize Data. Don't Look Now, but Your Social Relationships Have Changed--Again. You may not have thought about this, but your social relationships are changing on an almost daily basis. You have simultaneously more and less control over your human interactions, for better or for worse. Your relationships are increasingly determined by devices like phones, iPads, and computers.
Just now, Facebook announced a new social inbox, combining text, chat, and email. Last night, it was Path, another photosharing mobile app. Every day I download some new application to try, and they are almost all "social. " 1) Media sharing has gone beyond Flickr and the elementary digital photo upload. This morning I downloaded Dave Morin's new iPhone app, Path, supposedly the antithesis of Facebook. 2) Smartphones are ubiquitous. 3) As phones grow smarter, phone calls are going away. 4) Customer relations management is giving way to vendor relations management. 5) Loneliness is supposedly a thing of the past. 6)And now the dark side.
Social is a two way street. The Fifth Discipline by Peter M. Senge - Trade Paperback. 1 Give Me a Lever Long Enough… And Single-Handed I Can Move The World From a very early age, we are taught to break apart problems, to fragment the world. This apparently makes complex tasks and subjects more manageable, but we pay a hidden, enormous price. We can no longer see the consequences of our actions; we lose our intrinsic sense of connection to a larger whole.
When we then try to “see the big picture,” we try to reassemble the fragments in our minds, to list and organize all the pieces. The tools and ideas presented in this book are for destroying the illusion that the world is created of separate, unrelated forces. As the world becomes more interconnected and business becomes more complex and dynamic, work must become more “learningful.” Learning organizations are possible because, deep down, we are all learners. One could argue that the entire global business community is learning to learn together, becoming a learning community. Systems Thinking. Personal Mastery. PersonalBrain. Women Entrepreneurs Festival. Could a New Name Fix a Company? Chris Russo had a healthy business. The only thing holding it back, he thought, was its name. Three years after its launch in 2006, Fantasy Sports Ventures's revenue was increasing 40 percent to 50 percent a year, a pace that surprised even Russo.
But by the fall of 2009, he was uneasy. Despite the heady growth, Russo felt the company's brand positioning was pigeonholing the business and would soon limit further expansion. Still, Russo was reluctant to tinker with a business that, for the most part, worked. When Russo launched Fantasy Sports Ventures, he brought with him a sizable Rolodex and six years of experience running the new-media division of the National Football League, where he oversaw the release of the league's fantasy football games. Almost from the start, though, FSV's name was a bit of a contradiction; its first acquisition was Hoopsworld, a basketball news site that Russo felt would appeal to fantasy basketball players. The mood in the room was at times tense. Web 2.0. Academic assignment meets health information organizer (The freshly-minted MBA)
<< Previous: The organized consultant Back to: Stories from Topicscape users >> Bryan is a senior manager who recently qualified as an MBA. During the course, he was given a very tough assignment - to analyze the business opportunities and related ethical considerations arising from cancer in society. Using 3D Topicscape, he researched and planned this major paper for submission to the professor supervising the Marketing segment. This shows the Topicscape at a late stage. His first step was to think the subject through -- using 3D Topicscape he built a concept map in 3D (similar to a mind map) of the topics related to the needs of cancer sufferers and their families.
After organizing his ideas, he conducted the research that he felt was needed, grouping all the findings (web pages, notes and document references) in the same Topicscape, while modifying it extensively as new information came to light. The landscape is redrawn around "Cancer support and care". Blog « Dr. Diane Hamilton. There is no question that the blogosphere is growing. According to webdesignerdepot “WordPress has statistics for both WordPress.com (15.1 million blogs and counting) and self-hosted WordPress installations (17.4 million active installations), which gives part of the picture.
There are more than 10 million tumblogs on Tumblr. Blogger doesn’t offer any public statistics on how many blogs they host. Technorati is currently tracking more than 1.2 million blogs. And there are likely millions of other blogs out there hosted on other services like Movable Type, TypePad, Expression Engine, and other CMSs.” There is no shortage of blog search engines to find blogs that contain information of interest. With all of this information out there, who has time to read it all? There has been speculation about when blogging popularity will die down. With technology constantly changing, people may find it difficult to keep up with it all.
Ever wondered how many blogs are there on internet? Like this: Email Marketing Solutions from Constant Contact. Google Apps Adds Voice, Maps, Reader & More. Eating, Thinking and Staying Active with New Media. Downloads - Mac OS X - Productivity Tools. Liebe Gourmet Indian Fusion Deal of the Day | Groupon New York City.
Conducting Market Research. Best ways to acquire user data. Once upon a time, bragging rights in the world of online advertising went to the sites and landing pages that got the most impressions. In the old advertising ecosystem, advertisers and publishers alike spent millions of dollars in driving impressions to their site -- statistics that were brandished via impressive Nielsen and ComScore graphs at the end of every month. Get connected. Want to meet up with the companies that are leading consumer acquisition into the future? Check out the exhibit hall at ad:tech New York, Nov. 3-4. Well, that's changed.
Currently Facebook has 500 million users, and recent reports indicate that they are on track to grow to a billion users in the near future. And publishers are not alone. In increasing numbers, advertisers are building online communities of people -- on email, Facebook, Twitter, or simply on brand community sites. There are three methods to acquire the user information of people visiting your site or landing page. Your site registration form. Downloads - Productivity Tools - Cerebro. A new kind of publishing. Work Smart 2: Improving Your Organization's Social Media Presence. Organizers. Graphic organizer, concept mapping, and mind mapping examples. Graphic organizers can take many forms as per the table lower down. Graphic organizers can help motivate, increase recall, assist understanding, create interest, combat boredom and organize thoughts.
Some more forms: Clock, Cluster/Word Web, Describing Wheel, E-Chart, Fact and Opinion, Five W's Chart, Flow Chart, Four-Column Chart, Garden Gate, Goal-Reasons Web, Hierarchy chart, Ice-Cream Cone, Idea Rake, Idea Wheel, , Inverted Triangle, ISP Chart, KWHL Chart, KWL Chart, KWS Chart, Ladder, Observation Chart, Persuasion Map, Planning Chart, Problem Solution Chart, Progress Report, Sandwich, Sense Chart, Sequence Chart, Spider Map, Step-by-Step Chart, Story Map 1, T-Chart, Think-Pair-Share, Ticktacktoe, Time Line, Time-Order Chart, Tree Chart, Venn Diagram. Graphic organizers are valuable tools for teaching/instruction.
Unlike others, graphic organizers demonstrate a felxibility and endlessness in choices of use. Buddy2: The Next Generation of Teaching and Learning.