The Value of Big Data Isn't the Data - Kristian J. Hammond by Kristian J. Hammond | 11:00 AM May 1, 2013 It is clear that a new age is upon us. Evidence-based decision-making (aka Big Data) is not just the latest fad, it’s the future of how we are going to guide and grow business. But let’s be very clear: There is a huge distinction to be made between “evidence” and “data.” The former is the end game for understanding where your business has been and where it needs to go. The confusion here is understandable. I would argue that what you want and what you need is to turn that data into a story. It may well be the case that you already have someone who looks at the data, builds the queries, interprets the results and writes up the report. If we’re going to really capitalize on Big Data, we need get to human insight at machine scale. For the most part, we know what we want out of the data. In order to do this, your starting point has to be the story (or the communication) itself. Here’s an example.
40 Useful and Free Visualization Libraries: Charts, Diagrams and Flowcharts Don't Forget to participate in a contest where you can win an amazing e-Commerce template from TemplateMonster. Here, we have come up with an interesting round up of some beautiful visualization libraries. Presenting collected data to the users is a very common need in web application or software. There was a time when data was presented simply through numbers and words even the complicated data like traffic statistics and clicking hits. With the technology advancements, internet users have developed some standard methods to present data to users. Highcharts Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering intuitive, interactive charts to your web site or web application. CSS Chart Generator Enter all the necessary information for your chart. AwesomeChartJS AwesomeChartJS is a simple Javascript library that can be used to create charts based on the HTML 5 canvas element. Arborjs A graph visualization library using web workers and jQuery. InfoVis Online Chart Generator
The Weekly Flickr celebrates Mother’s Day In this edition of The Weekly Flickr, we asked you to help us celebrate those special women in our lives: mothers. We wanted you to share your photos of them and tell us the best advice she’s ever given to you. What better way to celebrate Mother’s Day than to hear their wise words that inspire our lives! We received countless photos and testimonials from participants, and here you’ll find a selection of them submitted to us. After you’ve watched the video, be sure to check out the photos in our “Mother’s Day” galleries. “The best advice she gave me is to lead a happy, healthy and full life — such as hers. “The best advice my mother gave me was, ‘Don’t ever let the negative things in life get you down.’” – ✈ Sean Marc Lee 李子仁 “The best advice my mom ever gave me was to save money. “The best advice she ever gave me was you have to remember to always smile and keep your head up because your smile could make anyone’s day. Do you want to be featured on The Weekly Flickr?
HTML5 Please - Use the new and shiny responsibly IRS targeted groups critical of government, documents from agency probe show The staffers in the Cincinnati field office were making high-level decisions on how to evaluate the groups because a decade ago the IRS assigned all applications to that unit. The IRS also eliminated an automatic after-the-fact review process Washington used to conduct such determinations. Marcus Owens , who oversaw tax-exempt groups at the IRS between 1990 and 1999, said that delegation “carries with it a risk” because the Cincinnati office “isn’t as plugged into what’s [politically] sensitive as Washington.” Owens, now with the firm Caplin & Drysdale, said that before the agency’s most recent reorganization, it had a series of “tripwires in place” that could catch unfair targeting, including the fact that the IRS identified its criteria for special scrutiny in a public manual. The IRS came under withering attack from GOP lawmakers Sunday. Sen. In March 2012, then-IRS Commissioner Douglas H.
Free Demo: Test Drive Our SaaS Login See Demo Sign Up See the system with our free interactive demo <p><strong>In order to complete this form please enable JavaScript in your browser. We guarantee your privacy. Connect Copyright © PaySimple 2005-2014. The Short Life & Fast Times of Fusion Drive Fusion Drive, we barely knew you. Announced as part of an Apple event held on October 23rd, 2012. Fusion Drive combined the large capacity of a conventional hard drive with the speed of a 128 GB flash storage to create a single logical volume with the space of both drives combined. The operating system automatically managed the contents of the Fusion Drive so the most frequently accessed files, applications, documents, photos and other data are stored on the faster flash storage, while infrequently used items moved or stayed on the hard drive. Users benefited from the affordable large-capacity data storage Fusion Drive provided, while still experiencing the quick boot times and fast application launch speeds of an SSD. Unfortunately many of Apple’s most popular Macs could not accommodate Fusion Drive due to a lack of space. There was also the problem of price. Let’s not forget that most users no longer need the high-capacity storage the Fusion Drive provided.
Free Web Conferencing Software, Free Online Meetings, Free Webinar Service Providers InstaPocketability I was only half-joking last week on App.net, when I said I wanted to create my own read-it-later service . I have been an Instapaper user since 2010. Originally I didn’t see the point in saving articles to read later. My RSS feed reader was already archiving my favorite articles for me. But Instapaper opened my eyes . Before Twitter, if I found an article on a site I wanted to read, I would subscribe to the RSS feed. Instapaper allowed me to read more by reading later. Ever since Marco Arment announced he was selling Instapaper , I have been reevaluating my read-it-later choices. Each read-it-later service Instapaper, Pocket, Readability, comes with its own strengths. Instapaper offers the best reading experience, and app integration. Depending on your priorities there is something for everyone in the read-it-later space. Website authors have the choice to opt-out of a given read-it-later service. Read-it-later is bigger than any one service or application.