May 2011
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Infographic Resumes 2 →
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Infographic Resumes 1 →
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Hans Rosling - The Joy of Stats →
one of the best video’s i’ve seen, even from Hans…
April 2011
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Watchseawitchery:
I started out clicking strategically… and by the end was just wildly clicking and dancing in my chair.
biancavirina:
CLICK THE SQUARES.
THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS.
THIS THIS THIS THIS!
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Google Refine for SEO: Find Keyword Modifiers with... →
How to go about using Google Refine to facet keywords, in addition to using Google Adwords…
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Get Started With Google Refine 2.0 →
Data nerds rejoice! Google has gifted the world with the latest version of its new product, Google Refine 2.0. Google Refine is a spinoff from the Freebase acquisition that occurred in July of 2010. Freebase developed a strong following among its user base, which included many media outlets such as the Chicago Tribune, ProPublica and many others. The Google Refine blog touts its latest...
March 2011
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3 Things to Know about Google Apps for New Users →
When friends ask me which service should they use to buy new web domains on the Internet, I almost always recommend the free edition of Google Apps and here’s why…
from Digital Inspiration
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Colour Lovers - Palettes →
purple palettes:
Colour Lovers > Search > Palettes > Hues: Violet/Blue-Violet ; Sort
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10 Super Useful Tools for Choosing the Right Color... →
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50 Best Creative Logo Designs from 2010 →
cukri:
best logos from 2009 - HERE.
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Watchthrough Places & Spaces I’ve found Knowledge Cartography, by Marco Quaggiotto.
The style of rich picture used by Marco below is what drew me: it’s part concept map, part knowledge map, and identifies actual people along with their departments and how those departments interrelate. As Marcus notes:
The images displayed below are screenshots taken from ATLAS, the application...
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Online resources for subject: Information &... →
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The State of Information Visualization, 2011 →
2011: What Will Be
I see a few trends become stronger and more pronounced in 2011. They are not entirely new, but I believe that this year will be when they gain a lot more momentum than they have so far.
In particular, I think we are ready for truly interactive, browser-based visualization. Protovis has now been around for almost two years, and a lot of people are getting interested. My...
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Advanced Excel: Creating Thematic Maps →
In this screencast tutorial I’ll show you how to create a thematic map and color-code it, based on your own data. You don’t need add-ins or additional software, just a little time to set it up. Please note that this is not intended to replace even the simplest mapping tool, but it’s a simple and fast solution to geo-reference your data and add it to a presentation slide.
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Watchmetaconscious:
Ever wondered what it looks like when a hacker attacks a computer and tries to break into someone’s account?
Now Ben Reardon of Dataviz Australia has created a stunning visualisation that shows a single attack on a voice-over-IP (VOIP) server, similar to those used for Skype. Hacked VOIP servers are often used for black-market communications and cheap calling-card scams.
In the...
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“excellent…some new ones in this list :)”
– http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
http://infosthetics.com/
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/
http://flowingdata.com/
http://www.benfry.com/
http://stamen.com/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog
http://bigthink.com/blogs/strange-maps
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Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design →
an oldie from Jakob Nielsen, but still relevant in oh so many cases…
Summary: The ten most egregious offenses against users. Web design disasters and HTML horrors are legion, though many usability atrocities are less common than they used to be.
Since my first attempt in 1996, I have compiled many top-10 lists of the biggest mistakes in Web design. See links to all these lists at the...
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VisWeek 2011 →
a wee bit of advertising (no i’m not involved, i don’t live in america or work in the industry [yet])
VisWeek 2011 is the premier forum for visualization advances for academia, government, and industry, bringing together researchers and practitioners with a shared interest in tools, techniques, technology and theory. The week is organized around three separate conferences: IEEE...
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invisible cities →
A project by Christian Marc Schmidt & Liangjie Xia. By revealing the social networks present within the urban environment, Invisible Cities describes a new kind of city—a city of the mind. It displays geocoded activity from online services such as Twitter and Flickr, both in real-time and in aggregate. Real-time activity is represented as individual nodes that appear whenever a message or...
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Information Representation - Academic Papers →
a collection of interesting articles shared among the Mendeley ‘Information Representation’ group
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The Flamenco Search Interface Project →
The Flamenco search interface framework has the primary design goal of allowing users to move through large information spaces in a flexible manner without feeling lost. A key property of the interface is the explicit exposure of category metadata, to guide the user toward possible choices, and to organize the results of keyword searches. The interface uses hierarchical faceted metadata in a...
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