The context of a statistic is explained through three medical examples from Edward Kavanaugh’s presentation titled, Statistics Without Context.
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Michael Anderson’s Resume Infographic is displayed and discussed. Michael has put together an excellent visualizaiton of his work experience and education. One of the best resumes I’ve ever seen.
People have a lot of trouble visualizing big numbers, particularly, the relationship between one big number and another big number.
A few weeks ago, I evaluated a randomly selected dashboard using Stephen Few’s 13 Common Mistakes in Dashboard Design. Today, I have picked another Dashboard, this one from VisualCalc, a web-based analysis software provider.
Amit Agarwal wrote an informative post a few weeks ago regarding Web 3.0. In his post, he links to 4 presentations that do a great job explaining what Web 3.0 is. I have pulled a few of the better slides below.
Stephen Few wrote an excellent book entitled Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data.
My good friend, who has made a successful second career out of professional poker online and live, alerted me to this incredible story.
My recent fascination with infographics has led me to discover a small set of quality infographic videos.
