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September 2010

The Essence of the Credit Crisis, Visualized

10 September 2010
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How do you distill the essence of a complex and complicated set of data without watering it down so much the information become worthless? Jonathan Jarvis faced that question two years ago when he created the Crisis of Credit Visualized, “the Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis”.
I admit that I read the news [...]

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How Comedians Re-Use Government Data to Inform and Teach About White Collar Crime Using Movie End Credits

9 September 2010
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What does a Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg comedy have to do with the financial shenanigans of the past few years? White collar crime. I went to go see “The Other Guys” over Labor Day weekend, expecting some light entertainment. That, it certainly was. I had a good laugh.
What surprised me were the ending credits [...]

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Satire No. 2: Colbert Takes on Eric Schmidt, Google, and Facebook’s Mining and Selling of Personal Data

8 September 2010
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Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, “predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends’ social media sites”. Schmidt made the statement in an interview with The Wall Street Journal’s Holman Jenkins that ran [...]

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Satire No. 1: Eric Schmidt, Google and Your Digital Exhaust

7 September 2010
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Is Google Evil? What secrets do your family members hold? What does Google actually know about you based on your digital exhaust? Is there a difference between having something to hide and some things not being anyone’s business?
Consumer Watchdog has created an animation that shows Google CEO Eric Schmidt driving an ice cream truck around, [...]

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London Underground Style Map of Modern Science — 500 Years of Science, Reason & Critical Thinking

1 September 2010
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If you wanted to “celebrate the achievements of the scientific method through the age of reason, the enlightenment and modernity”, how would you show this? Would you throw a party? Write a Very Long Paper or Book? Or, like Crispian Jago, would you create a map of the past 500 years of science using “Harry [...]

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Tsunami Animated Infographic

1 September 2010
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What is a tsunami? What makes it so powerful? Joshua Lue Chee Kong answers those questions with a short animated infographic about tsunamis. He discusses the history and origins of tsunamis, as well as their impact today.
While the information conveyed about tsunamis is very general and not new, I found the graphics bright and easy [...]

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