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Must-Have Tools for Making Your Own Data Visualizations
Data visualizations, the more intelligent sibling of infographics, can be a wildly productive way to make sense out of massive amounts of data.Social Media Monitoring, Analytics and Alerts Dashboard
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Episode #5 – How To Learn Data Visualization (with Andy Kirk) | Data Stories
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The Miso project and Cabinet Office spending Here on the Guardian's data team, we've wanted to help you visualise our data and create new viz styles for a long time.
Miso project: how it will help you make your own Guardian-style infographics and data visualisations | News | guardian.co.uk
In a bit of a digression from studying people abusing each other on Twitter, after I witnessed the progression of a particular hasthtag that was instead about how people are encouraged/outraged enough to report real-world abuse via social media platforms – I decided to employ my skills to find out how and why this happens, and the fascinating life of a particular social network meme. I first came across the #ididnotreport twitter hashtag in early March 2012.
#ididnotreport: Life of a Twitter Meme across social network platforms Twitter Abused
A month ago I drafted a post about personal impact metrics, spurred on by Amber Thomas coining the term "Pimpact" .
Science of the Invisible: Pimpact
Blogger's confession: I can spend a couple of hours interviewing sources and crafting a post several hundred words long and get a couple of thousand hits.
Why Your Infographic Is Evil (And Three Ways To Fix It)
Words in a sentence fall into two categories – function words and content words. Content words are nouns, verbs and adjectives – these are the parts of a sentence that paint the picture. Function words are the bits that enable a sentence to be grammatically correct, words like pronouns and auxiliary verbs – they are the glue of a sentence.
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Learning analytics is a significant area of technology‐enhanced learning that has emerged during the last decade. This review of the field begins with an examination of the technological, educational and political factors that have driven the development of analytics in educational settings.
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This handbook introduces you to the legal, social and technical aspects of open data. It can be used by anyone but is especially useful for those working with government data. It discusses the why, what and how of open data – why to go open, what open is, and the how to do open .
The Open Data Handbook — Open Data Handbook
Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Alan Zorfas, the co-founder and CMO of Motista, a VC-backed consumer intelligence service. Prior to co-founding Motista, Alan spent 25 years in senior roles at advertising agencies like Interpublic Group, DBB, and Earle Palmer Brown.
The Economics Of Emotion | TechCrunch
Confessions of a ‘Bad’ Teacher - NYTimes.com
The truth is, teachers don’t need elected officials to motivate us. If our students are not learning, they let us know.Just because you're not ready to shell out $99 per month to figure out the best times to tweet and post Facebook status updates doesn't mean you can't take better control of understanding your social media output. Indeed, paid Twitter analytics services may offer way more than the average user needs.