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Data Aesthetics

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Survival Skills for the Information Age. Whenever the topic of data comes up at meetings or informal conversations it doesn’t take long for people’s eyes to glaze over.

Survival Skills for the Information Age

The subject is usually considered so complex and esoteric that only a few technically-minded geeks find value in the details. This easy dismissal of data is a real problem in the modern business world because so much of what we know about customers and products is codified as information and stored in corporate databases. Without a high level of data literacy this information sits idle and unused. One way I try to get people more interested in data is to make a distinction between data management and data content.

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PearlTrees: Visually Organize and Share Web Bookmarks - informat

Or, in other words, Pearltrees is a somehow alternative visual version of the social bookmarking concepts that drive delicio.us, or a "collaborative network" that let users create, organize and share the world of their interests. However, in contrast to a tag-based system, Pearltrees connects people by the real content that is shared.

Users can save their favorite websites, organize what they find interesting, and explore what others have saved and are saying about specific web destinations. Google. Use this free Java application to explore the connections between related websites.

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Try it now! Enter keywords or a URL, and click 'Graph it! ' See Getting Started below for more details. Getting Started Make sure you have the latest version of java, at least Java 1.5 Type in your search keywords or a URL, and press "Graph It! " Modern Culture.