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. And now data visualization has given us charts like the first one below, which comes from a site called JobVine. 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.
Five Manifestos for the Creative Life by Kirstin Butler How a numbered list can start a personal revolution. Some days everyone needs a little extra encouragement. We’ve long been fans of the amazing work of Frederick Terral, the creative visionary behind design studio Right Brain Terrain. You may not be a Picasso or Mozart but you don’t have to be. We can’t imagine more sound advice. Guidelines to get you from Point A to finished product, The Cult of Done Manifesto was written by tech guru Bre Pettis (of MakerBot fame) in collaboration with writer Kio Stark in 20 minutes, “because we only had 20 minutes to get it done.” Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.” With iteration at the heart of its process, The Cult of Done Manifesto will banish your inner perfectionist (and its evil twin, procrastination). This is your life. There is an enemy. Even better, Do the Work is free(!) Donating = Loving
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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. 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 “In a way, Gapminder was nothing new,“ says Kosara. The Ebb and Flow Streamgraph Paths to the White House Death and Taxes Bikini Chart
(1) Data Use Policy 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. 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? All of us can build our knowledge but most of us won’t put in the effort. Continuous learning
La candidature spontanée En ces temps de crise du marché de l'emploi, nous savons ô combien il est difficile de trouver un emploi, même pour les personnes les plus compétentes. Il est donc hors de question de rester chez soi les bras croisés à atteindre que le poste parfait arrive dans votre boîte aux lettres. Que faire? La candidature spontanée est une solution et vous la connaissez sûrement! Cependant qui dit candidature spontanée ne dit pas lettre stéréotypée, envoyée par publipostage à des dizaines voire des centaines d'entreprises. Pour y parvenir, la règle d'or de la candidature spontanée réussie tient en effet en un mot : personnalisation ! Étape 1: Préparer votre campagne Les préparatifs d'une campagne de candidatures spontanées se déroulent en quatre points:Identifier les cibles: se concentrer sur 3 ou 4 secteurs, définis de façon discriminante pour ne retenir, pour chacun d'eux, qu'entre 5 et 15 entreprises. Étape 2: Identifier les destinataires de vos candidatures Comment? Étape 3: Rédiger un courrier
How Olympians Stay Motivated - Olga Khazan Mindfulness, self-talk, and an obscure chunk of the brain help elite athletes get through the training grind. Until the 1990s, Olympic figure skating included a segment called “compulsory figures,” in which athletes would slowly trace precise, intricate shapes into the ice, and judges would inspect the resulting swirls and loops to determine much of the skater’s overall score. These “figures” gave the sport its name, but they were gradually phased out because not even the most ardent skating fans would watch the tedious process on TV. Today's competitive figure skaters only do what their predecessors called the “free skating” portion—fast-paced programs set to music, packed with jumps and dance moves. When American figure skater Dorothy Hamill won gold in the ladies’ single competition in 1976, compulsory figures were the first event. “I would spend four hours a day going in circles and trying to perfect the compulsory figures, and no one ever saw those but the judges,” Hamill told me.