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Shoutout/Halloween’s History

31 October 2011
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Before I get on to Halloween, I’d like to thank the readers of this blog for your time and attention to my nattering.
Have you ever wondered how Halloween began? What is truth? What is fiction? The video below from National Geographic provides a quick history of the holiday.
Some Halloween statistics are listed after the [...]

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The Value of Data Visualization

18 October 2011
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Have you ever wondered why data visualization matters? Do you prefer to look simply at numbers in a spreadsheet, or would you rather seen an image of that data?
Many people learn better visually. We all have to crawl through a great deal of data each and every day as well as process the meaning of [...]

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User Experience Design

5 May 2011
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Have you ever visited a web site and wondered who created such a great experience? Have you ever wondered who makes the invisible visible?
No? Why do you think that is? If it works well, you don’t notice it, and if the site is a mess, it is all you do notice.
Therefore, what element can help [...]

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Being a Google Autocompleter

4 April 2011

Can you type 34,000 words a minute? Are you psychic?
If so, you may wish to apply for a job with Google as an Autocompleter. The video below details some of the requirements of the position.

Yes, this is another one of Google’s jokes for April Fools’ Day 2011.
Happy Monday!
[Via TechCrunch.]

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GMail Motion and the Top 5 Viral Pictures of 1911

1 April 2011

Google writes: “Now you can control Gmail with your body. Learn more at http://gmail.com/motion“.

YouTube writes: “One hundred years ago on April 1, these moving pictures were the finest in the land. Hooray!”

Happy April Fools’ Day 2011!

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Shoutout to TamingData Readers/Gratitude

31 March 2011
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I would like to thank the readers of this blog for your time and comments.
This month, TamingData received almost 4,000 “page impressions“. That is an almost 189% increase over February 2011 (if I did that math correctly). Yes, I went from slightly under 2,000 page impressions in February to over 3,800 page impressions in March! [...]

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Earthquakes — Animation of Cause and Effect

18 March 2011
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What causes an earthquake?
We are told by the media in the aftermath of an earthquake that the ground moved and major “faults” shifted and collided because the earth’s “plates” are adjusting.
But what does that mean in layman’s terms?
Podders79 created this “Animation-Earthquake Guide” based on BBC archives to explain the how and what behind [...]

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NOAA Maps Shows Honshu Tsunami Wave Heights Around the Globe

15 March 2011
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How can you display wave height in a meaningful way, particularly when a tsunami strikes after a major earthquake?
NOAA researchers and staff took the maximum predicted wave heights from buoys positioned in the Pacific as the Honshu Tsunami spread across the Pacific on March 11, 2011. Using that data, they created the dramatic images [...]

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Debtris (Visualization of Debt)

23 February 2011
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How does the cost of the Iraq War compare to US credit card debt? What about the worldwide costs of the financial crises from the late 2000s to the present? How do those costs compare to African nations’ debts?
Information is Beautiful provides those answers and more in his first animation, entitled “Debtris“. I have embedded [...]

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Shoutout to Taming Data Readers/Asteroids, A Love Story & Asteroids, an Online Version of the Arcade Game

31 January 2011
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I would like to thank the readers of this blog for their time and attention. I’m amazed every day at how many people want to read my scribblings.
In honor of the upcoming Valentine’s Day holiday, for your amusement I present, “Asteroids – A Love Story” from Nigel Upchurch. The song accompanying the video is a [...]

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