Everything Xcelsius Voyager dans le temps grâce à Google Street View "Pas besoin de rouler à 88mph (141 kmh/h) en Delorean. Vous pouvez explorer le monde tel qu'il est et tel qu'il était. Bon voyage dans le temps", lance Google pour présenter son nouveau service. Une jolie référence au film "Retour vers le futur". Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas, le Doc Brown peut voyager dans le temps grâce à une voiture. bande annonce retour vers le futur © fanchdetronoen Pas besoin de voiture ici, mais d'un simple ordinateur et de l'application Google Maps et de Google Street View. Plus émouvant, grâce à cette nouvelle option, il est aussi possible de visionner les étapes de la reconstruction du port d'Onagawa détruit par le tsunami de 2011.
How to Format your Data for Tableau Public For those of you who maybe didn't work with data too much before using Tableau Public (I fall into this camp), understanding how to format data can seem daunting at first. Once you play with it a few times though, it becomes pretty easy. We want to make that learning process even easier, so we're starting a three-part video series introducing how to format your data for the best results in Tableau Public. Start your data in cell A1Have the first row be the column headersHave every subsequent row be one piece of data This video takes a look at the first suggestion: starting your data in cell A1. As mentioned in this video, it's important to start your data right away in cell A1, and also get rid of anything that isn't actually data. We'll have the next video on column headers out soon, so sit tight! Feel free to leave us a comment and let us know what you think, or how we can help make Tableau Public even easier to use.
Thinkmap visualization software facilitates communication, learning, and discovery. How to draw a map This tutorial covers my entire process for how to draw a map – from start to finish. In this case I’m illustrating a simple town map, but the steps apply to any map. Tools and Software I used Photoshop for this map, but all of this can be done in Gimp (for free). I also use a graphics tablet. Tablets are great for this work, and if you’re thinking about digital map making I’d recommend picking one up. I’ve uploaded the full photoshop file if you want to look at the final file and see how the sausage was made. Outline of how to draw a map My steps in drawing a map are pretty consistent: sketch an outlineink in the outlinesadd detail linesblock in dark areasadd overall light and shadelay in base coloursadd detailed light and shadelabelfinal polish – border, colour balancing, tone balancing I’ll go through each of these steps in order. Setup To begin, let’s open a new document. I grabbed one of my parchment textures and set it as the background. Sketch the base for your map Ink the Outlines
13 Tips for the Best Nap Ever A mid-afternoon nap of just 10 minutes can help you stay alert for more than two hours when you’re sleep deprived, according to research from the journal Sleep. But it’s not just insomniacs who benefit from some midday zzz’s. Napping can also improve alertness, performance, creativity and provide a slew of other benefits among the well-rested and yawning masses alike, says psychology professor and nap researcher Dr. Sara Mednick, PhD, in her book Take a Nap! So how can you harness the power of the restorative nap? Read on for our expert-approved tips for the perfect snooze. When to Nap There’s a time and a place for playing catch-up, and while some strategies are universal, others will depend a bit more on your individual lifestyle. “A 30-minute nap has been shown to improve alertness and prevent unsafe driving nearly as well as coffee, according to one study.” 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Nap Smarter So how do you make the most of your precious nap-time minutes? 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Who Shouldn’t Nap 11. 12.
Thinkmap SDK The Thinkmap SDK enables organizations to incorporate data-driven visualization technology into their enterprise Web applications. Thinkmap applications allow users to make sense of complex information in ways that traditional interfaces are incapable of. The Thinkmap SDK (v. 2.8) includes a set of out-of-the-box configurations for solving common visualization problems, as well as new visualization techniques for customizing data displays. We have designed Thinkmap to be lightweight, fast, easily extensible, and able to connect seamlessly to a wide variety of data sources. Thinkmap is composed of two primary components: an extremely lightweight and fast browser-based Visualization Component that renders the visualizations and allows for interactive exploration a Data Source API that enables connection to many different types of data sources Thinkmap's flexible architecture allows developers to configure applications to address a wide range of retrieval and discovery issues.
[R] Faire des anamorphoses cartographiques avec Getcartr – Carnet (neo)cartographique Comment faire des cartogrammes avec R ? Aujourd’hui, c’est possible grâce aux récents développements de Chris Brunsdon de l’université de Maynooth (Irlande) qui a réalisé un front office (Getcartr) permettant d’utiliser simplement et efficacement le package Rcartogram. La méthode d’anamorphose proposée par ce package est basée directement sur le code C développé par Mark Newman (cart). Cette méthode, conçue conjointement avec Michael Gastner, repose sur le processus physique de la diffusion de la chaleur (diffusion linéaire). Référence : A Diffusion-based method for producing density equalizing maps, Michael T. Installation L’installation s’effectue en deux temps. 1) Télécharger et installer le package Rcartogram. 2) Installer le package Getcartr Dans R, tapez la ligne suivante pour télécharger et installer package Getcartr développé par Chris Brunsdon : library(devtools);install_github('chrisbrunsdon/getcartr',subdir='getcartr') Utilisation
Visual:Acuity Dashboard Solutions What is a dashboard? The fact is, there's a fair amount of confusion about how to define a dashboard. We think Stephen Few, author of Show Me the Numbers and Information Dashboard Design, has it just about right; "A dashboard is a visual display of the most important information needed to achieve one or more objectives, consolidated and arranged on a single screen so the information can be monitored at a glance." The Problem. Dashboards today fall woefully short of delivering on their promise of more informed and proactive managers. Why? We could have selected examples from any number of vendors - the similarities are striking. Dashboard examples from Crystal Xcelsius The Solution, Visual:Acuity We developed Visual:Acuity out of our frustration using existing dashboard products. The ability to assimilate and make judgments about information quickly and efficiently is key to the definition of a dashboard. In practice this means displaying a lot of information in a small space.
MapJam. Créer des cartes personnalisées – Les Outils Tice MapJam est un outil en ligne qui permet de créer et de partager de magnifiques cartes géographiques personnalisées. MapJam est un excellent outil pour produire des cartes avec des point d’intérêt géolocalisés contenant de l’information multimédia. Destiné à l’origine à tous ceux qui ont besoin de créer un plan d’accès à un lieu, MapJam peut aussi très facilement être utilisé dans un cadre scolaire. L’utilisation de MapJam est assez simple. Le plan apparait avec une flèche verte pointant l’adresse exacte. Les fonctions d’édition de MapJam sont nombreuses. Vous allez ensuite pouvoir créer une fiche interactive pour le point que vous souhaitez localiser sur votre plan. Vous pouvez en effet embedder des vidéos, des sons, des images à partir des principales plateformes existantes sur le web (Youtube, Dailymotion, Spotify, SoundCloud, Flickr…etc) Plus de 200 services sont pris en charge. Tout est personnalisable sur MapJam y compris la flèche qui situe votre point d’intérêt sur le plan.
The Big Business of 'Big Data' GE Appliances & Lighting, via Business WireA GE data center. Is Big Data a Bubble? In case you’re in a hurry: Of course it is. And that is good. Longer version: Last week there were several events that convinced me that one of the great tech bubbles inflating right now is around what people have agreed to call “Big Data.” Big Data is really about, however, the benefits we will gain by cleverly sifting through it to find and exploit new patterns and relationships. Other companies look at air and soil data to write insurance about crop production. Last week’s gathering of the tech tribes, the Web 2.0 conference, focused heavily on the benefits of the ubiquity of Big Data — ad placement at Google, Coca-Cola vending machines that develop a personal relationship with the buyer, or what Facebook algorithms are doing to the cultivation of our souls. Sometimes there were overreaching conclusions. Mr. “We have all the data we need. Expect to see a lot more before it all gets sorted out.