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Animated Infographic Using BLS Data: the Volunteers

31 August 2010
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Do you volunteer? Do you want to volunteer? If you do, do you prefer education and youth services, the environment and animal care, hospital or other health care, or another kind of volunteering?
Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, GOOD collaborated with Design Language to create this animated infographic of volunteers in the United [...]

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Facebook: By the Numbers

5 July 2010
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The numbers behind the Facebook phenomenon are staggering. Users spend 500 million minutes per month on the site. Seventy different languages are used on Facebook. As of December 2000, there were an estimated 361 million users on the Internet; as of 2010, Facebook alone has 400 million users. As of this writing, the Facebook user [...]

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Data Envisioned as Flowing through a Cityscape

28 June 2010
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Or, should I say, a cityscape envisioned as data?
The animation below is called Data; it was created by Carine Bigot (@c4rin3). It shows data flowing through the streets of a city, with an accompanying futuristic soundtrack. As you watch the animation you will see the data flow from above and around the “buildings”, as [...]

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The State of the Internet

2 March 2010
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The creative agency Jess3 created this video on “The State of the Internet” for AIGA Baltimore. It reminds me of the video, “Is Information Management Hype?“, in that the authors of the video throw a lot of facts and figures at the viewer.
I found it interesting that there are 247 billion emails sent every [...]

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Data Privacy Day 2010 — Your Online Reputation

29 January 2010
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January 28th, 2010 was International Data Privacy Day. The idea behind the day is to raise awareness of the need for data privacy, and to encourage “dialog among all of the stakeholders — businesses, individuals, government agencies, non-profit groups, academics, teachers and students –- to look more thoroughly at how advanced technologies affect our daily [...]

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Cloud Computing in Plain English

6 January 2010
Cloud Computing in Plain English

While certain committee members at NIST work on the 16th version of the standards document that defines cloud computing, I decided to to do some (simplistic) research of my own regarding the term. What exactly does cloud computing mean? And how is this different/how has it evolved from an Application Service Provider (ASP)? I used [...]

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“Keeping Up with Data Rot”

8 December 2009
Bye, Tech: Dealing with Data Rot

CBS News ran this nice overview of the digital preservation/data (bit) rot problem. I have found this to be a great way to explain the problem in a way that doesn’t put the average listener to sleep.

Go ahead, send the article and video out to your friends and family without fear. You know you want [...]

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