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Lies, damned lies and statistics (about TEDTalks)

Lies, damned lies and statistics (about TEDTalks)

The best stats you've ever seen - Hans Rosling Rosling is a passionate advocate for “liberating” publicly-funded data on the Internet. Select one topic area for which country-specific data might be compared (e.g., education, health, food production, the environment, etc.), and identify what you think are the best sources of data in this area on the Internet. Create a guide that lists these sources, and provides a brief review of each. If the administrators of these data repositories are thinking about how users might engage with the data via mobile devices or social media, note this in the review. If the administrators currently aren’t doing anything in these areas, how could mobile devices and social media enhance the user’s experience?

This Is Broken July 2, 2007 12:03 AM Broken: (news) Moving over to Good Experience Please join me now at the Good Experience blog, where I'll continue discussing customer experience, including broken things. Submitting photos Please submit new photos and screenshots to the This Is Broken photo pool on Flickr. Reason for the move After four years - since the first This Is Broken post on June 20, 2003 - I've decided to consolidate my customer experience writing onto one blog. So, see you over at the Good Experience blog! -mark Posted in | Permalink | Comments (2) June 30, 2007 12:03 AM Broken: UT San Antonio online application Jeremy Teale writes in: I am supposed to graduate from the University of Texas at San Antonio after the summer term. So I went through all the proper steps on the web - I verified my name, declined the alumni association offer, etc. and then I was greeted with the address page above. It reads "click here to add diploma address, phone," but there's no hyperlink to do so. Broken: St. The St.

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