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A wave of change is hitting the nation. Last June, New York became the largest state to legalize same-sex marriage under the Marriage Equality Act, making a precedent setting move and bringing further attention to the much discussed and debated issue. Now, just this Wednesday, President Obama became the first leader of the country to endorse legalizing same-sex marriage, stating “At a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married” (ABC News interview, May 9, 2012). According to an ABC Political Analysis , some advisers “pointing to rapidly changing public views of gay rights, say Obama has more to gain than lose by the move.” [Read more...]
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Alain Gresh, 25 mars 2012 « Nous » ne sommes ni hostiles à l’islam ni islamophobes. La meilleure preuve, « nous » donnons la parole à des musulmans qui disent exactement la même chose que « nous » sur l’islam. Bien sûr, ces derniers (...) Mycle Schneider, 23 mars 2012 Après l’arrêt programmé pour lundi 26 mars de Kashiwasaki-6, le dernier réacteur nucléaire en activité sur l’île de Honshu, le Japon ne disposera plus que d’une seule tranche en fonctionnement (sur 54) ; (...)
The History of E-commerce [INFOGRAPHIC] | Penn Olson
Ever wonder how e-commerce started and has evolved to its state today?
Strangely "Digital" Agricultural Landscapes Seen From Space #Inspiration | CreativeApplications.Net
CreativeApplications.Net reports innovation and catalogues projects, tools and platforms relevant to the intersection of art, media and technology. Read more here.
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Last month Hans Rosling, the Swedish global health professor, statician and sword swallower released a desktop version of Gapminder World, his mesmerizing data visualization tool. Named one of Foreign Policy's top 100 global thinkers in 2009, the information design visionary co-founded Gapminder.org with his son and daughter-in-law aiming to make the world's most important trends accessible and digestible to global leaders, policy makers and the general public.
If there's one thing people on both sides of the political fence can agree on, it's that the tax system in the United States is broken, and while the goal of fixing it is the same, they have completely different ideas about how to fix the problem.
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Do you know how many words where coined by Shakespeare in English language? let me give you a hint: a lot, including the word ‘hint’!. Some of these words are very common and frequently used, such as the adjective ‘obscene’ or the verb ‘to film’.
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Dona Wong, whose graphics book I reviewed two years ago ( link ), has recently joined the New York Fed to lead an effort to visualize data. This is exciting because consumers are unlikely to learn anything from Excel spreadsheets, HTML tables, etc. which are the typical formats of public data. One of their efforts is visualization of mortgage delinquency data in the Tri-state and Long Island regions ( link ). This animation reminds me of the CDC obesity map, to which I gave a positive review in 2005 ( link ). This type of chart is great for revealing the evolution of a metric over time and over space. The sliding control is a very nice extra touch.
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August 19, 2009 - 18:19 — daniel BrightIdea has been working with Adobe to manage their innovation. Now a prototype graph visualization built by Asterisq is being featured on their online "WebStorm" for Acrobat, found at http://ideas.acrobat.com . Collecting and Visualizing Ideas
Adobe Prototypes a Constellation Interface for Exploring Ideas | Asterisq.com
Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs. Latest News See All »
Gephi, an open source graph visualization and manipulation software
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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