EE - Digital City Portraits EE - Digital City Portraits Special commission by EE for the launch of 4G For the launch of 4G services in eleven UK cities, EE commissioned me to create a digital portrait for each city, formed from millions of bits of data as people talked and interacted about the biggest events of the day. Based on the same mathematics that create the head of a Sunflower, time explodes outwards from the centre with each point representing one minute giving a possible 4320 points – the number of minutes in three days – to cover the day before, during and after the launch of 4G. The three days worth of data was searched for various keywords that were hot talking points at the time, including Skyfall, Hurricane Sandy, money, together with localised subjects for each city. Even though each piece uses the same system to generate the images, each one is unique, both from a density of data point of view but also from what was being talked about. Read the case study on the M&C Saatchi PR site.
7 Wordpress Themes for Launching your Minimum Viable Product By leveraging the web in creation of rapid prototypes for testing business model assumptions, and using customer feedback to develop them, companies will be able to advance in its’ search for a repeatable business model and reduce risk in new-product introduction. In creation of such rapid prototypes the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) idea is key. Neverthless, open source platforms such as WordPress are key enablers to the Lean Startup. As my previous post on 9 Minimum Viable Product WordPress Themes received pretty good interest among aspiring enterpreneurs, I decided to share some more recent WordPress themes that can help you in quickly launching your minimum viable product. Inspire, a clean-cut theme from the rockstars at Woothemes. SaaS Web App. Apz, also by Woothemes, is a simple theme aimed at iPhone application developers. Coming Soon is a dead-simple landing page theme. SaaS Web App II is based on the same ideas as the SaaS Web App above, but with some modifications.
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'Murmur' bridges physical and virtual using sound / @chevalvert @v3ga #raspberrypi Created using Raspberry Pi and openFrameworks, Murmur is a device that enables the communication between public and the projection by simulating the movement of sound waves, building a luminous bridge between the physical and the virtual. The device was designed to collect the murmurs of the public. Referred to “echo’s room”, making reference both to the audio effect achieved and to Greek mythology, it represents not only the key technique of the Murmur device, but also its magical aspect, turning sound waves into light waves. The project is a collaboration between Chevalvert, 2Roqs, Polygraphik and Splank. Project Page
The GoodData Process | GoodData Stupid Calculations Project Management for Startups by Daniel Kehoe Last updated 17 April 2013 This article from the RailsApps project describes how entrepreneurs can manage development of software applications for startups and personal projects. For solo operators or small teams it suggests some tools for task management and introduces the kanban method of project management. If You Are New to Rails If you’re new to Rails, see What is Ruby on Rails? What is the RailsApps Project? This is an article from the RailsApps project. Project Management for Entrepreneurs Building a web application is a complex project; building a business is even more complicated. Defining tasks and tracking progress is the core of project management. Once you’ve defined your tasks through a product planning process, you’ll need to organize and track your tasks. To-Do List Some entrepreneurs like the discipline of the GTD (Getting Things Done) system for personal productivity and time management. Personal Task Management Team Task Management Kanban Agile Tools
An Interactive Look at Connected Devices in 2020 [INFOGRAPHIC] Whether it’s the Internet of Things and the rising connectivity among devices, or the use of wireless connections for machine-to-machine applications, you might be considering how this technology affects you and your organization. It’s important to know the sharing of valuable data by devices is expected to become an almost $1 trillion industry by 2020 , according to a report by the Carbon War Room. And in the next seven years, we’ll be measuring the growth in connected devices in more than just dollars. The following is a glimpse of what this technology might mean for your business in the future: That’s a lot of devices. For organizations employing M2M technology, the benefits may be seen across wide swaths of the business , such as: Machine operators responsible for the uptime of mission-critical assets Finance professionals responsible for calculating the ROI of purchases Procurement team members evaluating the agility of their suppliers Richard G.
Human-Centered Design for Social Innovation » +acumen Design Kit: The Course for Human-Centered Design is a seven-week curriculum that will introduce you to the concepts of human-centered design and how this approach can be used to create innovative, effective, and sustainable solutions for social change. This course has been created to reach those who are brand new to human-centered design, so no prior experience required (though we of course welcome previous students to continue honing your human-centered design skills!) Our Learning Partner Acumen is excited to partner with IDEO.org in offering this course. IDEO.org is out to design an end to poverty by bringing creativity, empathy, and innovation to the social sector. Our goal is to improve the lives of people in poor and vulnerable communities through design and we’re doing it in three ways: through the products, services, and experiences that we design; through the problem solvers we fuel; and by inspiring the social sector to adopt human-centered design. What You'll Learn No group?
Oranges and Blues — BoxOfficeQuant When I launched this site over two years ago, one of my first decisions was to pick a color scheme – it didn’t take long. Anyone who watches enough film becomes quickly used to Hollywood’s taste for oranges and blues, and it’s no question that these represent the default palette of the industry; so I made those the default of BoxOfficeQuant as well. But just how prevalent are the oranges and blues? Some people have commented and researched how often those colors appear in movies and movie posters, and so I wanted to take it to the next step and look at the colors used in film trailers. Although I’d like to eventually apply this to films themselves, I used trailers because 1) They’re our first window into what a movie will look like, and 2) they’re easy to get (legally). After sampling, I created the chart below to represent the distribution of those colors, so we could truly see how often they appear. Notes:
12 best places to get free images for your site Adding a few high quality photos is a great way to improve a website, article or presentation - but be careful. A search engine like Google Images will quickly locate just about any shot you could ever want, but using them will almost certainly violate someone's copyright. What's more, search tools like TinEye mean there's a very real chance that the original photographer will find out what you've done. Which could be embarrassing, and maybe expensive, too. Fortunately there's a simple and safe alternative. Just look for your free images in a library of stock photos, where the photographer has already given away most, or all of their rights. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Liked this? Sign up for TechRadar's free Weird Week in Tech newsletterGet the oddest tech stories of the week, plus the most popular news and reviews delivered straight to your inbox.
How Common Is Your Birthday? | The Daily Viz UPDATE: I’ve written a clarification about this post here. Please read it. A friend posted an interesting data table on my Facebook wall yesterday, which was my birthday. Sept. 16 was most common. Data source: NYTimes.com, Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University