Category: Information Visualization

  • EPIC 2012 • October 14-17, 2012 • Savannah, GA

    EPIC 2012 • October 14-17, 2012 • Savannah, GA. Related articles Population Health and Social Governance: Analyzing the Mainstream Incorporation of Ethnography (2012) (foucaultnews.wordpress.com) July Edition of Ethnozine – Ethnography of Wikipedia Sources, Live Fieldnoting, & 4 guest contributors for The Ethnographer’s Reading List (ethnographymatters.net) Ethnography & The Customer: Building a Compelling Brand (ablebrains.typepad.com) Ethnography…

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  • Jobs for the Future (JFF) uses online intelligence to find jobs in most demand

    In contrast to traditional survey based means of measuring job growth which can be quite inaccurate  Jobs for the Future’s (JFF)  John Dorrer uses ethnographic/online methods to analyze job postings (mining nearly 100,000 unique online postings for the three months ending February 14) in real time to extract the skills employers are asking for right now, then works…

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  • Wikinvest: another crowdsourced, cloud investment startup

    See your portfolio in a whole new light – Wikinvest. Related articles Zemanta now with SlideShare, 5min, Wikinvest, bigger images and 17.9% less fat (zemanta.com) Online Investment Portfolio Manager Comparison: My Wish List (mymoneyblog.com) SigFig Is a Powerful Investment Tracker and Portfolio Advisor (and We’ve Got Invites) [Investing] (lifehacker.com) Bringing more transparency to 401(k) fees…

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  • Hybrid Calling: Say Goodbye to Big Cell

    Over the past month I’ve been using Google voice and other Wifi based VOIP apps as my primary personal phone service due to a disinterest in paying Verizon >$100 a month over a 2 year contract for a piddling number of calls and text messages. Now, it appears that a few companies including Republic Wireless…

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  • Evolutionary basis of maximum connections on Facebook (150)

        Robin Dunbar: We can only ever have 150 friends at most… | Technology | The Observer.   Related articles   Social Media Maximum: 150 Friends (forbes.com) This Man Knows Exactly How Many Friends You Should Have (businessweek.com) The Dunbar Number, From The Guru of Social Networks | Drake Bennett | Business Week |…

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  • BzzAgent is the leading word-of-mouth marketing (WOM) company

    BzzAgent is the leading word-of-mouth marketing (WOM) company. Another cool Web 2.0 application that allows you to create word of mouth communities and viral networks for your product. Related articles BzzAgent’s Dave Balter Offers Word-of-Mouth Advice Rockin Week with BzzAgent Spread the Word! The Secrets of Word of Mouth Marketing Bzz or bust? Put your…

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  • UIC – Master of Engineering

      UIC – Master of Engineering. Related articles Master’s Degrees Part II: But Does That Mean You Need One? (avoidingadulthood.com) Two New Online Master of Engineering Degrees from Colorado State… (prweb.com) Roominate: Inspiring Artists, Engineers and Visionaries (engineering.curiouscatblog.net) Accuracy of Medical Information on the Internet (blogs.scientificamerican.com) Cornell Tech Campus Opens Applications for First Class (theepochtimes.com)…

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  • Mercer’s 2011 Cost of Living survey highlights

    Mercer’s 2011 Cost of Living survey highlights. best cost of living index for 150 cities. lists cities which are least expensive to retire to worldwide. Related articles Cost of countryside living rises – Confused.com (confused.com) How does your cost of living compare to other cities? (christianpf.com) Tax the Rich? Itemized Deductions & Cost of Living…

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  • Knowledge Jolt with Jack

    Knowledge Jolt with Jack. This guys has been at it for years, trying to get companies to embrace KM and has assembled a great collection of articles. Related articles Can you make tacit knowledge…explicit? (therunninglibrarian.co.uk) Technology Change (ivythesis.typepad.com) Move It or Lose It – Keeping Knowledge on the Move (blogs.gartner.com) Process Aligned Knowledge Management and…

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  • IIR ePharma Summit

    I’ve been a speaker a these conferences and they do a good job of covering new developments in life science and social media. IIR USA – Events Deliver Business. Related articles Viva the Healthcare (Social) Revolution! (gigipeterkin.com) Profiles of Drug Companies “Doing it Right”: AstraZeneca (medmeme.com) #ePharma Annual Summit: leveraging innovative digital marketing strategies (pharmastrategyblog.com)…

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  • Simple Online Time Tracking Software – Harvest

    Simple Online Time Tracking Software – Harvest. I’ve used this software to track time on a team and it worked pretty darn well. It is part of the Basecamp portfolio which I also use for project management and is entirely cloud based so is very easy to set up and rollout with minimal IT resources.…

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  • David Allen, Getting Things Done® and GTD®

        David Allen, Getting Things Done® and GTD®.   this approach to time management focuses on organizing things by the context in which you do them, like you have done with the house: kitchen, office, recreation etc.     Related articles GTD Times: Ten Ways To Get More Done At Work (gtdtimes.com) Test Your…

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  • OmniPlan for Mac – The Omni Group

      OmniPlan for Mac – The Omni Group. really good project management software. wish it was hosted and web based Related articles News: OmniPlan adds PDF export, task and resource reports (ilounge.com) Manage Projects Like A Pro On Your iPad [Feature] (cultofmac.com) RSS Sponsor: OmniPlan for iPad → (omnigroup.com) Weekly Poll: Which Omni Group Apps…

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  • 43 Folders | Time, Attention, and Creative Work

    43 Folders | Time, Attention, and Creative Work. best project and time management approach Related articles Great Email Time Management Tips Part 1 (brucemayhew.wordpress.com) The Paradox Of Time- What I Have Learn’t So Far (auniqueworld.wordpress.com) Find Time to be Savvy-5 Favorite Sites for Tech, Time and Productivity (solo-e.com) Management Tip ~ Stop Wasting Your Boss’s…

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  • High frequency stock traders and optimal fiber optic network locations

    Soon, several computer scientists argue, stock traders will locate themselves in optimal points long fiber optic cable routes (shown on the map) to optimize the speed of their trades by milliseconds.  High-frequency trading is a new way for financial firms to make money by trading securities ultra-fast. Instead of holding securities for the long term,…

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  • Ratings and reviews: the end of serendipity (and bad hotel rooms)

    An interesting article which points out some social downsides to the Internet including the fact that almost everything now comes with a sea of reviews and ratings making the act of discovering something entirely oneself a little more difficult. Rate This Article: What’s Wrong with the Culture of Critique | Wired Magazine | Wired.com. Related…

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  • Narrative Science: Using computational linguistics to automate storytelling

    The new startup Narrative Science is slowly replacing many of the stories you read every day by using computational linguistic algorithms to summarize data from online sources on subjects from finance to sports. It is also scaring the pants off of journalists everywhere. Narrative Science . Related articles Could algorithms replace writers? (raventools.com) We’ve sold…

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  • Black Coral Capital: Private Equity Fund Investing in CleanTech Space

     Another link from Jay. Black Coral Capital is a fund investing in the alternative energy / cleantech space. The fund can invest in a wide variety of cleantech arenas, both directly and through funds. Black Coral was formed in late 2008 and is presently building out its presence in North America. Black Coral Capital –…

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  • Intelligence agencies, mired in inefficiencies, begin to adopt social science and crowd sourcing methods

    As with other fields such as medicine, after years of massive costs and sometimes ineffective methods, resulting in catastrophic failures such as 9/11, new leadership at our intelligence agencies such as Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper are adopting digital and social science methods such as crowd sourcing, data science, knowledge management.  Social scientists have…

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