Good piece on dataviz from Harvard Business Publishing.
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Swimming in Data? Three Benefits of Visualization
4:11 PM Friday December 4,2009
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A sample text widgetEtiam pulvinar consectetur dolor sed malesuada. Ut convallis euismod dolor nec pretium. Nunc ut tristique massa. Nam sodales mi vitae dolor ullamcorper et vulputate enim accumsan. Morbi orci magna,tincidunt vitae molestie nec,molestie at mi. Nulla nulla lorem,suscipit in posuere in,interdum non magna. | December 4th,2009 | Category:Main Page,SNA [Social Network Analysis],VisualStats &Infographics | Leave a comment We don't know how long this one's been around,but kudos to the gang at the WashPost for taking a concept/tool somewhat on the margin and putting it to good use for both reporters and readers. See http://projects.washingtonpost.com/potus-tracker/ Jobs by SimplyHired POTUS Tracker Analyzing Obama's schedule [...] OK,OK. Using R can be a steep hill to climb for some. But here,thanks to O”Reilly Radar,is a pretty good video of a presentation on using R as a Social Network Analysis tool. ”Social Network Analysis in R —video and slides for talk on doing social network analysis with R.”[...] Much of this is well-known by those of us who have worked with dataviz for the past decade or two,but his ending conclusions are solid and worth reviewing. Key quote from Jeffrey Veen:“We need to create tools to help people manipulate THEIR data.” Good examples of how to use large data [...] April 29th,2009 | Category:Analysis,Main Page,SNA [Social Network Analysis],VisualStats &Infographics | Leave a comment Amy Disch,library director of The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch,sends along these links via the News Librarians'listserv (newslib@listserv.unc.edu). This is a gentle reminder about how the foundations of good publications today rest,first,on the integration of library AND IT skills. Watch them in the order listed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWY8OBMlroI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYwoHCdIDKU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFzHH5LRK2M&NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6uWmT2TXlQ
[...] November 14th,2008 | Category:Main Page,Research,RRAW-P process,SNA [Social Network Analysis] | Leave a comment No story? Then check out Swivel,a web site rich with data —and the display of data —that you didn't know about and which is pregnant with possibilities for a good news feature. And often a news feature that could be localized.Here,for example,is a posting from the SECRECY REPORT CARD 2005 [...] January 2nd,2007 | Category:Analysis,JAGIS (Journalism &GIS),Main Page,SNA [Social Network Analysis],Statistics,VisualStats &Infographics | Leave a comment The 2006 Knight-Batten Awards given by J-Lab are out. All are worth looking at,but one caught our eye,one of the “Niche News”awards in the “Notable Entries”category. Clearly,a lot of legwork on the streets of Boston went into this well-designed project. Now the only question is:Who will keep it updated [...] September 19th,2006 | Category:Main Page,SNA [Social Network Analysis],VisualStats &Infographics | Leave a comment From The Chronicle of Higher Education:http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=t1n20rynvsqvbk0g14g8pth0vlnbl1yd “Human Trails In Cyberspace Social scientists create maps of online interactions Multimedia:Maps and audio charting human interactions in cyberspace By JEFFREY R. YOUNG Philadelphia [...] June 30th,2006 | Category:JAGIS (Journalism &GIS),Main Page,SNA [Social Network Analysis] | Leave a comment Mapping the World:An Illustrated History of Cartography –by Ralph E. Ehrenberg Mapping the World is a collection of cartographic treasures that spans thousands of years and many cultures,from an ancient Babylonian map of the world etched on clay to the latest high-tech maps of the earth,seas and the skies [...] May 29th,2006 | Category:JAGIS (Journalism &GIS),Main Page,SNA [Social Network Analysis] | Leave a comment Comes this interesting post on the Complexity and Social Networks Blog…. Social Networks and the Business World By Alexander Schellong Social Network Theory and its principles are applied by more and more companies in a way that some of us might not be aware of yet. So what we buy,how we rate products/services,[...] March 23rd,2006 | Category:Main Page,SNA [Social Network Analysis],VisualStats &Infographics | Leave a comment | Recent Posts
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