Filemail.com - Send large files - fast, easy & secure Infographic Tools - HBR.org Many technologies and forms of communication experience a painful, necessary moment. Synthesizers endured A Flock of Seagulls. The internet had its GeoCities moment. It’s colorful, and it sure looks like an infographic, but it’s nearly incomprehensible. It’s an exciting, noisy time for dataviz. Here’s how it goes. Next, everyone starts overdoing it—using the newfound tools regardless of usefulness or appropriateness, just because they’re trendy. Eventually, however, people get better at using the technology, make important breakthroughs, and ultimately pull it to a better place. Still, Tufte’s principles probably aren’t enough anymore. Today’s best visualizers are therefore moving beyond Tufte to reconcile the tension between information and design, accurate and exciting, telling and selling.
Scientists tell us their favourite jokes: 'An electron and a positron walked into a bar…' | Science | The Observer Physics ■ Two theoretical physicists are lost at the top of a mountain. Theoretical physicist No 1 pulls out a map and peruses it for a while. Then he turns to theoretical physicist No 2 and says: "Hey, I've figured it out. I know where we are." "Where are we then?" I heard this joke at a physics conference in Les Arcs (I was at the top of a mountain skiing at the time, so it was quite apt). ■ An electron and a positron go into a bar.Positron: "You're round." ■ A group of wealthy investors wanted to be able to predict the outcome of a horse race. This is really the joke form of "all models are wrong, some models are useful" and also sums up the sort of physics confidence that they can solve problems (ie, by making the model solvable).Ewan Birney, associate director, European Bioinformatics Institute ■ What is a physicist's favourite food? ■ Why did Erwin Schrödinger, Paul Dirac and Wolfgang Pauli work in very small garages? I knew this limerick when I was at school. Biology Maths Chemistry
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Top 10 Infographics - Fast Co Photographers have created many iconic images, but Biostatistics professor Roger Peng recently asked “What are the iconic data graphs of the past 10 years?” FastCoLabs called in Andy Kirk of Visualising Data, Robert Kosara of Eager Eyes, and Matt Stiles, the data editor of NPR, to help answer that question. You can see their selections in the slideshow above. The first three data graphics--WindMap, GapMinder, and the Ebb and Flow Streamgraph--were selected by multiple members of our panel. Reflecting the controversial nature of such a list, each of the remaining graphics were chosen as iconic by a single panelist. Wind Map Wind Map is an art project created by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg. “A wonderfully elegant and transfixing portrayal of wind,” says Kirk. You can zoom in on particular regions of the country, find the wind velocity at at a precise latitude and longitude, and browse wind patterns from the past such as when Hurricane Sandy made landfall. GapMinder Death and Taxes
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Buffett & Munger: How To Get Smarter “The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.” — Charlie Munger “Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.” — Charlie Munger Most people go though life not really getting any smarter. Why? They simply won’t do the work required. It’s easy to come home, sit on the couch, watch TV and zone out until bed time rolls around. Sure you can go into the office the next day and discuss the details of last night’s episode of Mad Men or Game of Thrones. But you can acquire knowledge if you want it. In fact there is a simple formula, which if followed is almost certain to make you smarter over time. It involves a lot of hard work. We’ll call it the Buffett formula, named after Warren Buffett and his longtime business partner at Berkshire Hathaway, Charlie Munger. “I can see, he can hear. We can learn a lot from them. How to get smarter Read. Warren Buffett says, “I just sit in my office and read all day.” What does that mean? The Omaha World-Herald writes: Eisner continues:
Amsterdam Bicycles This webpage, and all of are yours to enjoy. Feel free to use any pictures found here for any purpose you like, with or without credit. I grant you full rights, for free, forever, to do anything you want, including redistribute the pictures with or without any credit to me. This isn't my job, it's just my vacation website. Background & Explanation: I stopped in Amsterdam, Netherlands on my way back from a 2006_europe_motorcycle_trip. Categories that Show Differences between Amsterdam Bicyclists and San Francisco Bicyclists: Here are a few of the differences I wanted to point out, with examples: Location the Pictures were Taken in Amsterdam: In all the pictures below, you will see the same background over and over again, because all the pictures are from the same corner of Nieuw Markt (a nice open square in Amsterdam). So Now, the Pictures: The first picture below is just a normal scene of parked bicycles in Amsterdam. Formally Dressed Bicyclists Dogs on Bicycles