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September 2010

Shoutout to Taming Data Readers/The Great Office War

30 September 2010
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I’d like to give a shoutout to the Taming Data readers. This blog is now going on ten months old; I appreciate your interest and I’d like to thank you for reading me.
In honor of all of you who are out in the trenches, taming data day in and day out, sweating over data quality, [...]

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Google Releases World Map of Government Censorship Requests

28 September 2010
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How would you display a somewhat abstract term like “censorship” to your users and the rest of the world?
Earlier this week, Google released the latest version of their censorship map. Via the BBC: “the new map and tools follows on from that and allows users to click an individual country to see how many [...]

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Keeping the Cherokee Language Alive and Dynamic for Future Generations

27 September 2010
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How do you keep language alive when you have only 500 fluent speakers of your language, and 70% of those speakers are older than age 50? If you are the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation, then you create a school to teach your young ones how to speak the language. You also work with [...]

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Zotero Everywhere — Coming Soon to a Browser Near You

24 September 2010
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How do you organize your references when you are doing research? I’ve tried several different methods, both digital and manual. For a while, my favorite was Zotero, but I did not want to be tied to the Firefox browser; I prefer to use Safari. If there is any one immediate area where I would be [...]

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Three and a Half Seconds About Life

24 September 2010
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You enter a contest and you are given three words. You have to make a short movie based on those three words — “ring”, “three and a half”, and “winter”. What topic or topics would you cover?
Yoav Brill, Shay Yosef, and Eran Hilleli came up with a creative answer to their limited data dilemma for [...]

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A Day in the Life, London c.2002

22 September 2010
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If you wanted to show “a day in the life” of someone living in a major city, what features of their life would you choose to highlight? French motion graphics studio H5 decided to focus on the details of a 20-something living in London. Directed by Ludovic Houplan & Hervé de Crécy, the infographic is [...]

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Little Red Riding Hood, the Animated Infographic Version

20 September 2010
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If you were the Big Bad Wolf and you were on a diet, would you want to know how many calories Grandma contains? What about the cost of the bread and wine you, the parent, are sending to your mother or mother-in-law via your daughter? Tomas Nilsson took on the story of Little Red Riding [...]

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The Business of Death

16 September 2010
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How do you take data related to the worldwide funeral industry and make it interesting to review? If you are GOOD Magazine, you create a fun infographic that lobs various bits of data at you, along with terms like, “embalming fluid” and “formaldehyde“. Welcome to the Business of Death animated infographic. As the creators of [...]

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Bridging the Divide Between Digital and Physical Preservation

14 September 2010
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What is involved in digitizing and preserving a digital surrogate of a physical object, such as a map? The Library of Congress highlights this complex process with a short video that describes the processes involved in preserving the Waldseemüller Map in both physical and digital formats.
Why did the librarians and conservators at the Library of [...]

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Animation of the Known Universe

13 September 2010
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How do you create a cartographically accurate map of the known universe? You take heaps of astronomical data and animate it.
The American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium have engaged in three-dimensional mapping of the Universe since 1998 as part of the Digital Universe Atlas. They created the animation below in [...]

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