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New Edition of StoryCentric Focuses on the Role of Data in Multiplatform Storytelling | InteractiveTV Today - A Literacy of the Imagination

[itvt] is pleased to present the latest edition of StoryCentric , our video column from Brian Seth Hurst , CEO of The Opportunity Management Company and former second vice chair of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. http://goonth.posterous.com/new-edition-of-storycentric-focuses-on-the-ro
The future of User Interfaces

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Measuring the Progress of Societies

http://www.oecd.org/pages/0,3417,en_40033426_40033828_1_1_1_1_1,00.html The OECD World Forum on “Statistics, Knowledge and Policy” was held in Busan, Korea on 27-30 October 2009. This OECD World Forum focused on Charting Progress, Building Visions, Improving Life and attracted high level participants with a mixture of politicians and policy makers, opinion leaders, Nobel laureates, statisticians, academics, journalists and representatives of civil society from many countries. The 3 rd OECD World Forum, was organised by the OECD and the Government of Korea (Korean National Statistical Office).
You might not know it, but there are actually a ton of data and visualization blogs out there. I'm a bit of a feed addict subscribing to just about anything with a chart or a mention of statistics on it (and naturally have to do some feed-cleaning every now and then). In a follow up to my short list last year, here are the data-ish blogs, some old and some new, that continue to post interesting stuff.

37 Data-ish Blogs You Should Know About | FlowingData

http://flowingdata.com/2009/05/06/37-data-ish-blogs-you-should-know-about/

Final Forum Home

http://www.medstat-finalforum.org/ Here are brief details of a previous bursary award in which International Biodeterioration Society granted 150 for an undergraduate project at the Department of Plant Sciences of the University of Oxford.

Free GIS mapping software program applications and resources

Featured GIS Shapefile Map Layers - for Beginners & Experienced GIS Users Alike. http://www.mapcruzin.com/free-gis-software-tools.htm