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David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization

New Orleans Saints Personnel Room Touch Screen Kiosk Mickey Loomis is the General Manager of the NFL's New Orleans Saints Mickey Loomis spent his first three evenings at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis sitting face-to-face with incoming rookies, utilizing intensive 15-minute interviews with 60 select players hoping to find a window into their character and personality. The human interaction with an athlete who is often heavily coached to provide well-crafted answers can be, well, very flawed. CRASH TEST Top prospects go all out to prove themselves at the Combine, and we've got the pictures to prove it. Performance statistics? Those can be crunched and evaluated much more effectively and efficiently. When it comes to dissecting the seemingly endless stream of empirical data that separates future NFL stars from expensive draft busts, Loomis, the New Orleans Saints general manager, has gone almost entirely digital. The interactive tool is called ICE, which stands for Interactive Collaboration and Evaluation.

How To Break The Mold & Reinvent Your Resumé It’s no secret that creativity matters. Yet when it comes to selling our own services – arguably the thing that matters most – we often set aside our creative superpowers, opting for a standardized resume instead.In an overstuffed job market, it’s more important than ever to set yourself apart. But how can you cram everything you do, know, and aspire to accomplish into a single page and create something memorable?The options are infinite, but the most successful examples we’ve found have a few qualities in common. They tell a story, inject personality while maintaining professionalism, demonstrate expertise in a relevant way, and – last but not least – pique the curiosity of their recipients.Here are 15 examples of resumes, portfolios, and promotional mailers that entertain and inform: What’s Impressed You? Do you have great examples of promo materials that you (or someone else) have created?

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