Archive for the ‘Interesting Sites’ Category
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
How simple is it to find quality, open source alternatives to usually expensive and proprietary software?
Open Source for Windows can be found at OpenSourceWindows.org.
These two sites are the cleanest and easiest sites I found when trying to find basic and essential Open Source alternatives to commonly used applications.
Over atOsalt.com, Open ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Ok, so I'm still swamped with this proposal, but I wanted to make sure I shared some of the most interesting information visualization posts I've came across within the past week.
Heatmapping Your Productivity
The picture is a heat map of my daily productive capacity... the amount of productivity I am capable ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Sorry to have to do this but I've got a proposal I'm writing and I just don't have time to find some new stuff this week.
I've been very pleased with the increased traffic to the blog over the past few months.
Here's a random 5 of the 20 most popular posts ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
I appreciate the efforts of InfoVis for compiling 1100+ examples of information visualization.
the Parsons Institute for Information Mapping (PIIM), is building this searchable database of information graphics from visitor submissions and numerous repositories on the internet.
Part of our research program is to classify these and other information graphics according ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
A little while ago, I found some new Wikipedia visualizations from the guys that brought you Visualizing Wikipedia - The Power Struggle.
Found at A Beautiful WWW, their new visualization attempts to highlight activity in regions of Wikipedia that are predominately math or science or technology.
We developed a program to ...
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
When I originally saw the premise of Cabspotting.org, I assumed the intentions to visualize San Francisco's Yellow Cab service data only went skin deep... merely a slick cover on basic GPS plots. I think I underestimated their vision...
Cabspotting traces San Francisco's taxi cabs as they travel throughout the Bay ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Depending on your general interest in video games, you may have heard of the wildly popular multi-player game released earlier this year, Halo 3. In the 3rd generation of the game, player statistics are even more significant.
Personally, I'm a big fan and have probably spent too many hours in ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
As I was surfing flickr for some interesting infographics, I came across macro girl, a significant contributor to the Diagram Diariespool
Apparently, macro girl is developing a website devoted to providing recipes and cooking instructions through infographics. Her site is still in development. Click on the logo to check it ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
I've been listening to a number of the free online radio sites like Last FM, Slacker , and Pandora for some time now. Pandora in particular claims to help listeners discover new music they like, but don't know about, by playing music with the same general traits as ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
I found this scanned image from a magazine describing who owns who in the global car manufacturing industry. It may be out of date but I love how it makes the something that could be complex easily understandable.
This is the global car industry as you've never seen it before.
If ...
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