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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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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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Clueless Discovery / Asking the “Right” Questions

22 March 2011
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A large part of life and research involves figuring out what questions to ask. Still, how do you know what questions to ask? How do you know when to keep exploring vs. accepting that what you’ve found so far is “good enough”?
I have no idea.
And neither, apparently, does this guy, whose failure to “get [...]

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Linked Open Data: the Promises an the Pitfalls…Where Are We and Why Isn’t There Broader Adoption?

8 February 2011
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This post is for those of you who are interested in Linked Open Data.
The following is from an announcement sent out via email by Diane Goldenberg-Hart of CNI on 7 February 2011.

A new video from CNI’s 2010 fall membership meeting is now available from CNI’s video channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni). [...]

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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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The Information Explosion and Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom

24 January 2011
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The information explosion. What does that mean to you? Does it mean multi-tasking, multiple Internet-enabled devices, cyber-friends, a vast database of knowledge at your fingertips…and a sense of being overwhelmed with too much information?
If you were an adult before the World Wide Web became common, are you more informed or less informed because of the [...]

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World Statistical Data, “As If To Nothing”

6 December 2010
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How would you display statistical data about the earth and its population of humans, flora, and species? What about diseases, deaths from war, births, deaths, marriages, divorce and abortions? Drownings, poisonings, and fires? Oil, cars, and bicycles? And if you want to display this data all at once and show how it changes over time, [...]

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Air Traffic World Map

29 November 2010
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Have you ever wondered how many airplanes are in the air at one time? How about over a 24 hour period? Can you visualize this data? If so, how?
A group of students at ZHAW in Europe took on the challenge. Pierre-Alain Goualch posted this video of one way to display this data, which is this [...]

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Shoutout to Taming Data Readers/Happy Halloween

31 October 2010
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I would like to wish each and every one of you a safe and Happy Halloween. Thank you for reading this blog. As part of my “thank you”, I’ve included Greg Fellin’s video “Happy Halloween“, which features “The Monster Mash” song. I’ve also added an infographic with some interesting facts about Halloween. (You can find [...]

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