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data is boring, information is interesting!
From Smashing Magazine, Data Visualization: Modern Approaches From Single Function, 20 Inspiring Uses of Data Visualization
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Aakash Nihalani - Magkinetic Drawings
I’m not sure what’s going on here, but it’s pretty fun to play with.
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Interestingly timed article on people leaving Facebook (I just joined this week).
I don’t really have a fully formed opinion on Facebook yet, though it’s been interesting to observe it as someone coming so late to the party. My initial reaction is simply “too much noise.” I guess that makes me the ideal candidate for Facebook Light?
Good point in the linked article: ““Facebook is good for finding people, but by now the novelty of that has worn off, and everyone’s been found.””
Has anyone considered quitting Facebook?
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Stars? Bars? Thermometers?
A work related post today because I’m really proud of what we’re putting together as a small team over the past couple of days. Ideas become wireframes; wireframes become mockups; graphics are integrated; soon we’ll be hard at work developing the newly improved interface on www.travelfusion.com.
We are having office debates over the best way to indicate the score of each flight result relative to the other results in the set. There are various ways we’ve thought of doing this, from star ratings, rankings, bars, colours, thermometers, thumbs up/down, etc. Maybe you can help me solve this problem by tweeting back at me (@facemark) or via email (markellison@gmail.com). The question: what makes most sense to you??
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Baltimore’s got murders
As an admirer of data visualization and interactivity, I can respect the effort Baltimoresun.com developer Stephen Mekosh put into developing this handy Google Maps mashup. In one click of a button, users can plot the locations of murders over the last three years atop an interactive Google Map of Baltimore.
Select options from the dropdown lists below and click “Show Results”. The map below will display points for each homicide in Baltimore City that meets your search criteria. Click on a point to get details about that homicide.
There have been 163 homicides in 2009 to date.
You can even drill down to each particular murder’s location and get the dead person’s name, race, age, and cause of death. Each of the deceased has a unique profile page, kind of like a Facebook profile, but for dead people.
Here is the tool: http://essentials.baltimoresun.com/micro_sun/homicides/
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Secret Project Launched!!
This is a total Life 2.0 kind of story. I noticed last week on Facebook that my old friend Annvi would soon be launching a website for her new business. She was asking the sorts of questions I knew the answers to, so I piped up. As we conversed it became clear that the site was fully conceptualized and content-ready, but it was nowhere close to actually being built. I volunteered to put it together and in less than a week produced this: Barkin’ Doggie Biscuits. Annvi and Tobiah are great and easy to work with, and because they knew exactly what they wanted, the geographical barrier and time difference (Houston, USA to London, UK) was not really an issue.
My favorite part of the site is the Testimonials section where people can upload pictures of their own dogs eating the yummy looking biscuits. Okay, it’s kind of empty now, but it’ll grow. These dog treats will be up for sale online pretty soon. I can’t wait to get some for Jessie.
For you Life 2.0 types, BDB is active on Twitter, Facebook, and Annvi writes an entertaining dog themed blog.
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