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Remember the NSF visualization challenge announced at the beginning of this year? Nine months have come and gone, and the winners (and several honorable mentions), from five categories, were announced today . Above is Life in a Biofilm , which won honorable mention in the Informational Graphics category, by Andrew Dopheide and Gillian Lewis from University of Auckland. The five categories were: Winners of NSF Visualization Challenge 2008

The writer’s bookshelf (part 3) Style manuals are all about consistency in writing, editing, and publishing. Style includes rules for when to spell out numbers, how to deal with abbreviations and acronyms, which words should be capitalized, and punctuation issues (whether to use a serial comma, when to hyphenate compound words), to list only a few examples. Anyone who writes or edits books in the U.S. needs The Chicago Manual of Style , the 15th edition (the current edition, extensively revised in 2003). The Chicago Manual of Style calls itself “the essential reference for authors, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, and publishers in any field,” and that’s not an exaggeration. Though the main focus is on the needs of writers and editors of books and journals, the new edition was revised to assist ”the increasing proportion of our users who work with magazines, newsletters, corporate reports, proposals, electronic publications, Web sites and other nonbook or nonprint documents.

Landings Comprehensive aviation site offers databases of plane registrations, service difficulty reports, pilot certifications Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has links and information, including a fill-in-the-blanks Freedom of Information request. (This list of federal freedom of information officers may be useful, as well as this New York State FOI page and these links to state FOI laws ) Virtual Gumshoe has a variety of useful investigative links Center for Public Integrity tracks various aspects of public life and has useful research tools KnowX Free and low-cost information about lawsuits, bankruptcies, U.C.C. and other public filings for businesses and individuals New York Times Newsroom Guide to Useful Web Sites

Intute closed in July 2011 . Please note that the site has now been archived and we are not adding any further resources to the catalogue or making any changes to existing content. The Virtual Training Suite provides free Internet tutorials on using the Web for education and research, written by qualified lecturers and librarians. Intute

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Addressing Letters to the UW A complete UW Seattle campus ZIP code is 98195 + the last four digits of the box number. For example, the zip code for box number 352700 would be: 98195-2700. Schmitz Hall - Admissions

The New York Times Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Sources: Marc Vidal; Albert-Laszlo Barabasi; Michael Cusick; Researchers created a map linking different diseases, represented by circles, to the genes they have in common, represented by squares. Related Article: Redefining Disease, Genes and All Mapping the Human ‘Diseasome’

5 Data Visualization Dissertations Worth a Look It's coming to the end of the academic year, which means there are lots of graduate students frantically finishing up their dissertations, defending, and earning their degrees (yay!). Here are some tasty visualization dissertations, new and old, worth thumbing through. Information Visualization for the People by Mike Danziger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Comparative Media Studies

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Why Should Engineers and Scientists Care About Color (and Design The authors go over a lot of stuff, but the main take away (for me, at least) was the three perceptual dimensions - hue, saturation, and luminescence. Luminescence is the how bright something appears; saturation is the intensity of color; and hue is the actual color. To represent continuous metrics, it was found that use of hue is poor while it's easier for us to interpret continuous changes (i.e. magnitude information) with saturation and luminescence.

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