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Update: LG, T-Mobile Team for 'G-Slate' Honeycomb Tablet | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
LAS VEGAS-LG's mobile phone division has teamed up with T-Mobile for their first tablet, that will run Google's Android 3.0 or "Honeycomb" OS. While neither companies released many details of the tablet, the name's a mouthful: the T-Mobile G-Slate with Google, by LG. The G-Slate is "expected to be available in [the] coming months," according to a statement. A T-Mobile spokesman said that T-Mobile had not released pictures of the tablet, and would not reveal it publicly until an event on Thursday morning. He also declined to release pricing information. "The Honeycomb user experience improves on Android favorites such as widgets, multi-tasking, browsing, notifications and customization.
Android 3.0, codenamed Honeycomb, introduces a completely new user interface suitable for tablet devices. Google has also extended the platform's APIs so that third-party developers can make their applications work better on large form factors. The Android 3.0 SDK preview, which was released last week, offers an early look at some of the new features available to developers. We've been scouring the documentation and looking at the source code examples to see how all the pieces fit together. In this article, we will give you a concise overview of several key new features. ActionBar
First look: Honeycomb APIs power tablet-friendly Android apps
65 Terrific Social Media Infographics | pamorama
As you know, infographics are visual representations of information, data, or knowledge. They present complex concepts quickly and clearly, and communicate ideas in an easily understandable fashion. Last year, I assembled a collection of 35 infographics that told the story of social media at that time. That post proved to be so popular that I wanted to update it, including images that are still relevant and adding newer visualizations that illustrate more recent knowledge and insights into the social Web.In this post, Robert reviews of some of the important trends in information visualization in 2010, discusses the potential of HTML5 for creating information visualization experiences on the web, and makes a few predictions about the near future. Robert is pretty sure that the world is ready for " truly interactive, browser-based visualization ". He notes that the Protovis Primers he shares on his website are quite popular.
State of Information Visualization, 2011 InfoVis in HTML5 "how-to", and more (Thanks to Robert Kosara)
Information design - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Visualization of the frequency of outbound trains from Bangalore , India Information design is the skill and practice of preparing information so people can use it with efficiency and effectiveness. Where the data is complex or unstructured, a visual representation can express its meaning more clearly to the viewer. [ edit ] From graphic design Information design began as a subset of, or synonym for, graphic design [ citation needed ] and is often taught as part of graphic design courses. One of the first uses of the term was by the London graphic design consultancy Pentagram , who used the term in the 1970s to mean their graphic design, as distinct from product or other kinds of design. [ citation needed ] Since then, the term has come to be used specifically for graphic design for displaying information effectively, rather than just attractively or for artistic expression.
Be sure and check out our previous infographics: The Worlds Most Obscure Top Level Domains , Comparing the Two Fastest Selling Gadgets of All Time , Chinese: The New Dominant Language of the Internet , and The Great Rise of the Mobile Web .
How Big Is The Internet? [Infographic]
Guest Blog: Words, pictures, and the visual display of scientific information: Getting back to the basics of information design
Data visualization. Infographics. Ooh, better yet, make that interactive infographics. The recent buzz around the visual display of information makes it seem like everyone should be rushing to whip up some multi-colored cartogram , bubble chart or word cloud .
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Infographics Have Jumped the Shark | VizWorld.com
Fast Company posts the (they call it “Controversial”, but I think it’s pretty obvious to anyone in the Visualization space) stance that “Infographics have jumped the shark”. Speaking about the recent deluge of beautiful pictures that combines lots of information, but in the end leave you wondering what you were supposed to be learning from it. It seems to me that that’s exactly what an infographic does best: Wrap a bunch of not-so-interesting content in a bow that’s pretty enough that you take your attention off what’s inside and instead focus on the pretty bow.infographics | VizWorld.com
Here in the US, sports are not just big fun but big business. Maybe that’s no big surprise, but if you break down the numbers on number of games, price of tickets, and salaries of players, you start to see some interesting facts emerge. Facts like the NHL and NBA have similar game counts and attendance figures, but NHL tickets cost on average $10 more, but somehow bring in about $1B less a year in revenue. Seems we all suffer from insomnia at one point in our lives, but for some it’s a chronic and debilitating condition that leads to lots of complications. Weight loss, inattentiveness, and behavioral issues are common, but there are others you may not know of. This new infographic show some of the risk factors associated with Insomnia and various genetic and environmental causes.
Axiis: Data Visualization Framework
Whether you are building elegant charts for executive briefings or exploring the boundaries of advanced data visualization research, Axiis has something for you. Axiis provides both pre-built visualization components as well as abstract layout patterns and rendering classes that allow you to create your own unique visualizations.
Graph Visualization Software | Tulip
Written in C++ the framework enables the development of algorithms, visual encodings, interaction techniques, data models, and domain-specific visualizations. One of the goal of Tulip is to facilitates the reuse of components and allows the developers to focus on programming their application. This development pipeline makes the framework efficient for research prototyping as well as the development of end-user applications.Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.From navigating the Web in entirely new ways to seeing where in the world twitters are coming from, data visualization tools are changing the way we view content. We found the following 16 apps both visually stunning and delightfully useful. Visualize Your Network with Fidg’t Fidg’t is a desktop application that aims to let you visualize your network and its predisposition for different types of things like music and photos. Currently, the service has integrated with Flickr and last.fm, so for example, Fidg’t might show you if your network is attracted or repelled by Coldplay, or if it has a predisposition to taking photos of their weekend partying.
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