Year: 2009
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Data As Art
These data visualisations from Chris Harrison are so beautiful they are an art-form in themselves: Digg RingsUsing data from the digg API, the top ten most-dugg stories of the day over one year rendered in a series of tree-ring-like visualisations (moving outwards in time). The colour of the rings relate to digg's eight top-level categorizations,…
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Consumers Are People (2)
Looks like I struck a bit of a chord with my protestations around some of the language we use in our industry. There were some great comments and some good discussion around my post (thanks), some good follow up posts, and plenty of action on twitter. John even put together a natty widget aggregating the…
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The Wrong Summit
This short 3 minute TED talk by Arthur Benjamin makes a simple but very perceptive point, that the teaching of mathematics is now out of step with the modern world. Moving beyond the foundations created by arithmetic and algebra, Benjamin suggests that as the world moves from analogue to digital the curriculum should move with…
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Consumers Are People
I'm banning the word 'consumer' from this blog. Not that it crops up that often here – I've been making a conscious effort to avoid using it ever since Adam launched his 'Stop Calling Me a Consumer' Facebook group (and even wrote a piece of Firefox script that automatically replaced the word 'consumer' with 'people')…
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Post Of The Month – June ’09 – The Winner
Very close run race this month, with Charlie's post on 'Time As Context' vying for the top spot pretty much all the way with David's 'Service' post – both excellent contenders but in the end, it was Charlie's post that won at the last fence. So well done Charlie – you get the props of…
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The Story Engine
I love this quote from Guillermo Del Toro on the future of film and entertainment: "In the next 10 years, we're going to see all the forms of entertainment – film, television, video, games, and print – melding into a single-platform 'story-engine'. The Model T of this new platform is the PS3. The moment you…
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Post Of The Month – June ’09 – The Vote
OK, the vote is open. Thanks as usual for the nominations (and thanks Michael for nominating one of mine). So please help spread the word that voting is underway, and of-course vote yourself below. Our shortlist this month is: Time As Context… from Charlie Gower The Price of Pomposity… from Euan Semple Nixon And Complexity……
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Jer Thorp
Two amazing visualisations from Jer Thorp: First up – 'Just Landed' – originated from a thought about the data that is hidden in various social network information streams, this visualisation finds tweets that contain the phrase 'just landed in', parses out the location they’d just landed in along with the home location they list on…