Category: Information Visualization

  • USA.gov: The U.S. Government’s Official Web Portal

    USA.gov: The U.S. Government’s Official Web Portal. It’s the homepage for the Land of the Free! But besides that, for U.S. citizens, businesses, government employees, and foreign visitors, USA.gov offers governmental information and services, from health-care info and U.S. history to tax guides Related articles USA.gov (ilovehistoryandresearch.wordpress.com) Did the U.S. Government Really Say That? How…

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  • Electronic Frontier Foundation | Defending your rights in the digital world

    Electronic Frontier Foundation | Defending your rights in the digital world. Whether you’re aware of it or not, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is looking out for you. Founded in 1990, the organization is devoted to defending the civil rights of citizens as they pertain to technology. Related articles Electronic Frontier Foundation Tackles News Nazi (blogs.lawyers.com)…

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  • NPR : National Public Radio : News & Analysis, World, US, Music & Arts : NPR

    NPR : National Public Radio : News & Analysis, World, US, Music & Arts : NPR. News coverage doesn’t get much better than NPR, which runs the gamut in terms of coverage, from serious to downright silly. Need an international fix? Listen to Talk of the Nation. Want a good laugh? Tune into Ira Glass‘s…

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  • Latest US news, world news, sport and comment from the Guardian

    Latest US news, world news, sport and comment from the Guardian | guardiannews.com | The Guardian. Sometimes getting the best news about your country’s politics involves turning to sources outside of its borders. Published since 1821, The Guardian (formerly The Manchester Guardian) has become one of the most celebrated English-language papers Related articles ‘Guardian’ sparks…

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  • Bloomberg – Business, Financial & Economic News, Stock Quotes

    Bloomberg – Business, Financial & Economic News, Stock Quotes. We’ll put it this way: Bloomberg.com is the go-to financial news service for the guys who manage your stock portfolio and the Wall Street bigwigs who manage their portfolios. Related articles The Rise of Bloomberg Online (247wallst.com) Consumer Comfort in U.S. Slumps to Lowest Level Since…

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  • AllThingsD: WSJ online tech news

    AllThingsD. All Things Digital is the online brand extension of the D: All Things Digital conference, which in turn is a brand extension of Walt Mossberg‘s technology coverage for The Wall Street Journal. Related articles AllThingsD: New Kindle Fire will feature 1280 x 800 resolution, ship … (engadget.com) AllThingsD confirms September 12 launch date (apple24seven.wordpress.com)…

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  • Verbotomy: The create-a-word game

      Verbotomy: The create-a-word game. Verbotomy gives you the power to create words from meanings with daily Challenges: The Challenge provides a definition, and you invent a verb (or Verboticism)-usually a mashup of others. Entries are judged. Related articles Weekend Distraction: Wordsplosion, A New and Simple (Yet Satisfying) Word Game (sharechair.wordpress.com) Towers of Babble Available…

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  • Free People Search – Find People – Wink

        Free People Search – Find People – Wink – Wink.   Wink is a people search engine that culls results from social-networking sites (MySpace, LinkedIn, Bebo, and more), followed by results from other sites where users keep public profiles, followed by results from the Web at large.     Related articles   Geri…

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  • Ninjawords – a really fast dictionary

    Ninjawords – a really fast dictionary. Sometimes you need to know the meaning of a word, and you need to know it two-tenths of a second faster than any other dictionary site can get it to you. And that’s why Ninjawords is there. Like a ninja, it is smart, fast, and accurate. Related articles Uuuuuugh,…

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  • Scour, After vote – Search Socially

    Scour – Search Socially. AfterVote is a search aggregator that combines results from the big three search engines (Google, Yahoo!, and MSN) and ranks them for you. Each search results page shows you a particular page’s ranking on each search site, gives you the ability to vote on it. Related articles Bing adds more to…

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  • Systems theory: foundations of business analysis

    Systems theory – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A core part of the theory used by the business analyst according to Michael Hugos, along with Information Theory Related articles System Theory (2nd Reference) (prerna4everything.wordpress.com) System Theory (Referred Article) (prerna4everything.wordpress.com) Eyal Sulganik: Towards a Theory of “Mathematical Accounting” (gilkalai.wordpress.com) Complexity:: understanding living systems (fitforrandomness.wordpress.com) Projects are systems…

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