What’s a visual thinker to do when an injury or disease robs them of their ability to use their hands to create visuals? Tony Quan, aka TemptOne, a legendary LA graffiti writer, publisher and activist faced just that situation as he was stricken with ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease in 2003. Now, unable to move his body, eat or even talk, but with an otherwise entirely healthy brain Tony was faced with a lifetime …
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Yesterday Google flipped the switch on their newest Google labs product “Google Public Data Explorer“, a tool that allows anyone to browse, compare and visualize information from a dozen or so public data sets (World Bank data, US Census Information, Eurostat etc.). While a limited in what you can do today it provides some interesting insight into what might be coming down the pipes.
Data visualizations can also be linked to, or even embedded in a …
Last Friday, the White House put out a press release “President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts” – ordinarily this isn’t something we’d cover here at VizThink except for one key person who was mentioned in the release: Edward Tufte.
Tufte has been asked to join the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel, a group with the following mandate:
“To promote accountability by coordinating and conducting oversight of Recovery funds to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse and to foster …
The BBC created an interactive infographic showing the spread of the Internet around the world from 1998-2008. In addition to advancing along a timeline in annual increments, you can roll over a country at any point to see how many people were online there at that time.
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It’s interesting to me from a couple of perspectives – one is obviously just how fast Internet access has permeated much of the developed world …
TED.com posted a new video in the past couple of days featuring Gary Flake, a Technical Fellow at Microsoft and the founder/director of Live Labs. Gary was demoing Pivot, a new tool from Microsoft’s Live Labs that was designed with the goal of making it easier to interact with massive amounts of data. this 6-minute TED video gives a run-down of a few of the features and tools Pivot makes available and is worth a …
As some of you know Dave Gray, a founding member of VizThink, has been working on his new book “Knowledge Games: The Visual Thinking Playbook” along with co-authors Sunni Brown (VizThink Austin) and James Macanoufo (XPLANE).
“We’re moving from an industrial to a knowledge economy, where creativity and innovation will be the keys to value. New rules apply. Yet 200 years of industrial habits are embedded in our workplaces, our schools and our system of government. …
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