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67 bookmarks by garrettc
"My educated guess is that 50% of my job as a manager is information acquisition, assessment, and redistribution. It is my primary job and the efficiency with which I do this is a direct contribution to the velocity of the team."
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Good data tables allow users to scan, analyze, compare, filter, sort, and manipulate information to derive insights and commit actions. This article presents a list of design structures, interaction patterns, and techniques to help you design better data tables.
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Space dashboard is a collection of a select few live happenings in space.
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To mark the 50th anniversary of the British Road sign, artists & designers transformed circle, triangle and square signs.
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"After a while you realize that this image could be used anywhere in any paper or presentation and make perfect sense. This is a graphic that defines a way of describing anything that has ever existed and everything that has ever happened, in any situation."
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Team structure and processes should cover a full range of distinct competencies.
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Interactive tool from Juice Labs to help you pick the right chart for your data depending on what you're trying to explain.
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Interesting comment thread with usage examples. I'm still not convinced though.
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Using photographs as a bedding for informational graphics
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A survey of powerful visualization techniques, from the obvious to the obscure
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WTF is HTML5, an infographic (and quite nice it is too): /via @dknights
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I saw some of these wayfinding signs the other week and really liked them
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"Prior to Flickr, all the competition was focused on printing an a couple of other features. Sharing was under-developed. Rather than competing on printing, Flickr completely ignored this functionality until recently. Instead, Flickr blew the wheels off the competition in sharing. It follows a similar pattern with editing and uploading functionality."
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"...typical examples of attempted RESTful HTTP usage that create problems and show that someone has attempted, but failed, to adopt REST ideas."
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Absolutely brilliant examples of bar charts and sparklines built using accessible markup and CSS.
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Comprehensive roundup of visualisation tools for social networks.
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Tom Armitage has hooked Tower Bridge in London up to Twitter, brilliant!
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"Through large scale blog analysis, Lovelines illuminates the topography of the emotional landscape between love and hate, as experienced by countless normal humans keeping personal online journals." Quite compelling in an ambient twitter way.
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Images from "Flight Thru Instruments," a 1945 US Navy pilot-training manual designed by the Graphic Engineering Staff at General Motors
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I loved this show when I was a kid. And they're still as good as ever
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Patterns for navigation, layout, interaction and customisation
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The ALA survey has been published, and interesting reading it makes too
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Interesting visualisations of country and city internet connections.
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Adaptive Path has made slides and audio from the UX Week 2007 sessions available.
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Very nice looking drupal site: "HowToDoThings strives to solve people’s everyday problems by compiling reliable information from experienced contributors and making it available to inexperienced readers."
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Interesting infographic on the changing frontpage of the LA Times and the shifting of editorial, images and advertising.
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Some beautiful, some useful, some not so much. All pretty interesting though.
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Handy site for tracking down new places to eat in the capital
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"The obvious way to make the most money possible is to plaster your sites in as many ads as your visitors can stand. But if you look at your traffic, chances are you'll lose little by turning ads off completely for your biggest fans."
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Machinetags.org is an effort to create conventions for making machine tags (or triple tags).
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"SIMILE is focused on developing robust, open source tools based on Semantic Web technologies that improve access, management and reuse among digital assets." - lots of cool data tools basically.
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Learn all sorts of interesting things about your flickr account and photos, including if they're being used anywhere else
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Mike Schinkel's succinct list of rules for well designed, hackable URLs
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Guide to all the stuff going on under the hood, Geeky and useful.
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Evan Williams argues for new metrics to measure web traffic.
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Interactive animations and exploded timelines mapping Manhattan's development
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You live in the big here. Wherever you live, your tiny spot is deeply intertwined within a larger place, imbedded fractal-like into a whole system called a watershed, which is itself integrated with other watersheds into a tightly interdependent biome.
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