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[10 Mar 2010 | Comments | 128 views]

A collection of visual thinking links found on the web in the past few days by our editors & vizthink community contributers. Have a link suggestion? Tweet it or add it to delicious and be sure to tag it with vizthink.
These are the links for March 10th:

Signs: The most useful thing you pay no attention to. – By Julia Turner – Slate Magazine –
Rise of the Infogeeks – The Society for News Design – …

[9 Mar 2010 | Comments | 201 views]

A collection of visual thinking links found on the web in the past few days by our editors & vizthink community contributers. Have a link suggestion? Tweet it or add it to delicious and be sure to tag it with vizthink.
These are the links for March 9th:

What If Everybody in Canada Flushed At Once? | Pat’s Papers – Funny little graphic showing water usage in Edmonton during the Gold Medal Hockey game last week… …

[9 Mar 2010 | Comments | 485 views]
Google Launches Public Data Explorer

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 …

[8 Mar 2010 | Comments | 235 views]

A collection of visual thinking links found on the web in the past few days by our editors & vizthink community contributers. Have a link suggestion? Tweet it or add it to delicious and be sure to tag it with vizthink.
These are the links for March 8th:

Think You Can’t Draw? Here Are 6 Artists Whose Work Will Help! (@austinkleon, @davegray, @tomgauld and more) – Computer Books / Human Readers – Some shoutouts for some of …

[8 Mar 2010 | Comments | 230 views]
BBC Visualizes the Growth of the Internet

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.

(click through to view graphic)
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 …

[7 Mar 2010 | Comments | 242 views]

A collection of visual thinking links found on the web in the past few days by our editors & vizthink community contributers. Have a link suggestion? Tweet it or add it to delicious and be sure to tag it with vizthink.
These are the links for March 7th:

The 21 Heroes of Data Visualization: – BusinessWeek –

[5 Mar 2010 | Comments | 231 views]

A collection of visual thinking links found on the web in the past few days by our editors & vizthink community contributers. Have a link suggestion? Tweet it or add it to delicious and be sure to tag it with vizthink.
These are the links for March 5th:

Tips and Truisms: Listening for Graphic Recording or Visual Note-Taking « Sunni Brown –

[5 Mar 2010 | Comments | 393 views]
Visual Frameworks: A Work In Progress

Much the same way people say there’s only 7 unique plots in story telling the same can also be said about visual representations. This isn’t to say there isn’t room for creativity or design but the reality is, when you dig into many visuals a lot of them have very similar underpinnings which they’ve been built upon. This isn’t a big secret and many people have tried to document and present these visual frameworks over …

[4 Mar 2010 | Comments | 240 views]

A collection of visual thinking links found on the web in the past few days by our editors & vizthink community contributers. Have a link suggestion? Tweet it or add it to delicious and be sure to tag it with vizthink.
These are the links for March 4th:

22 Inspirational Creative Resume[CV] Designs | BootStrap –
Chalkboard Table –
A Decade in Search: Highlights from 2000-2009 in the world of search engine marketing. –

[4 Mar 2010 | Comments | 498 views]
Pivot: A Turning Point for Visual Data Exploration?

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 …