Instagram has been the talk of the tech world in the past few weeks. The site first released an app for Android and then was quickly bought by Facebook. Millions of folks are active on the site, contributing and discovering photos all the time. This infographic by Online Colleges shows how far Instagram has come over the years.
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Your Next Gadget {Infographic}
Best Infographics14 May 2012 | 6:04 amEvery year that goes by, we see even more awesome gadgets released to the market. The smartphones and tablets of today are much more capable than the ones released a couple of years ago. In a few years, tablet sales will roughly parallel PC sales. Close to 1b smartphones are expected to be sold by that year. Symphony Teleca has prepared an infographic that shows what features you can expect in your next device. Future handheld devices will be better in security, video editing, facial recognition and many areas. The next few years are going to be very exciting for gadget lovers. -
Client Infographic: Most Polluted Cities 2012
Cool Infographics8 May 2012 | 7:35 amEvery year the American Lung Association releases a new State of the Air Report sharing their test results of air pollution across the U.S. This year, InfoNewt is working with them to release a series of infographic designs based on the 2012 report starting with the Most Polluted Cities in the United States 2012. Air pollution remains a serious threat to our health. For 13 years, the American Lung Association has analyzed data from state air quality monitors to compile the State of the Air report. The more you learn about the air you breathe, the more you can protect your health and… -
TEDTalk Video: Information is Food
Cool Infographics9 May 2012 | 8:01 amIn March 2012, JP Rangaswami gave a short TEDTalk in Austin, TX, Information Is Food, about treating information similar to how we treat food. How do we consume data? At TED@SXSWi, technologist JP Rangaswami muses on our relationship to information, and offers a surprising and sharp insight: we treat it like food. With a background in economics and journalism, JP Rangaswami has been a technology innovator and chief information officer for many leading financial firms. As an advocate for open source and disruptive technologies, Rangaswami has been a leading force in the success of multiple… -
New Maps for the Web by Stamen
Datavisualization.ch21 Mar 2012 | 7:07 pmI just left the Stamen studio where I had a brief chat with founder and CEO Eric Rodenbeck. He enthusiastically showed me their newest work: maps.stamen.com. As part of the CityTracking project, the savvy folks at Stamen have put create three sets of map tiles to be used with OpenStreetMap data. These tiles are not your average map using custom colored vector paths. Instead Eric and his team tried to push the boundaries of what we consider feasible in mapping on the web.Toner is a high-contrast black and white tile set that is optimized to focus on the actual shapes found in maps without…
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Flowtown Infographic: Dine and Dish: Are Social Media and Food the Perfect Pairing?
14 May 2012 | 9:00 amCurrently, 49 percent — or nearly half — of surveyed consumers learn about food through social networks, and 9 percent have downloaded a mobile food app in the past year. From tweeting about the delectable belgian waffle they just ate and discovering recipes on image-centric cooking blogs to checking into the hottest new restaurants, more food-obsessed Americans are turning to social media to help satiate their cravings. See how in this infographic created with Flowtown. -
KT Tape Infographic: Game Change: Social Media’s Influence on the Sports World
14 May 2012 | 9:00 amYou can spot social media’s integration into sports everywhere.These days, more fans prefer getting their sports news from Twitter and Facebook than national news websites, and they’re engaging their favorite athletes the same way. This infographic created with KT Tape explores who the biggest athletes and teams are on social media, who has the biggest following, and which athletes are responsible for the biggest #FAIL. -
Flowtown Infographic: How To Spot An Instagram Junkie
14 May 2012 | 9:00 amNow 40 million users strong, digital photo-sharing app Instagram has taken advantage of the photoblog trend and transformed into something of an overnight global success. With the startup earning press for expanding its product to Android users and being snatched up by Facebook’s powerful grasp, the tech world is wondering what kind of users are downloading the app and catapulting the brand to the top. Below is a guide created with Flowtown on how to recognize the obvious signs of a die-hard Instagram devotee. -
Share Our Strength Motion Graphic: No Kid Hungry
10 May 2012 | 9:00 amAmerica has the food and programs in place to end childhood hunger, but they are up against a lot: The stigmas and embarrassments that surround hunger, the challenges presented by access to health food, and the struggle to connect children with the resources they need to thrive. Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry national campaign looks to end childhood hunger in America by 2015. Share Our Strength, in association with Discover the Journey, has been confronting hunger head-on to break down these barriers. Watch the motion graphic below to learn more. -
GOOD Infographic: Which Countries Are Most Reliant on Libya for Oil?
8 May 2012 | 9:00 amAs unrest continues to mount and conflict rages on in Libya, questions surrounding the North African nation’s oil exports remain in the air. The international Energy Agency said in March 2011 that the country’s oil production has “slowed to a trickle” as the fighting has prompted international companies to halt their operations and close ports. What does this mean for the countries that receive shares of Libya’s typical daily output? Here’s a breakdown created with GOOD of which ones depend most on the turbulent but oil-rich nation.
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The Rise of the Filibuster
15 May 2012 | 11:23 amTo understand this chart you have to be quite the congressional procedure wonk. I think they should at least have to go back to having to talk the whole time. While standing on one foot. In uncomfortable shoes. With their mom watching. -
Women in Parliament
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Repetitive Tasks
10 May 2012 | 1:58 pmYep. This pretty much describes my career. Progress is the result of a lazy man finding an easier way of doing things. -
Gay Rights
9 May 2012 | 9:34 amA nice interactive visualization of gay rights in the United States, by State. This was created by the Guardian in the UK – where, interestingly, the conservatives support gay rights.
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Ingeniously Charting The Horrifying Power of Today's Nuclear Bombs
15 May 2012 | 10:00 amAnyone remember what color the “tons” were on the infographic? The Ingeniously Charting The Horrifying Power of Today’s Nuclear Bombs infographic by Maximilian Bode (posted on fastcodesign.com) puts the power of the Tsar bomb into painful perspective (but seriously my fingers hurt from scrolling). A simple, but great design that puts some truly huge numbers into scale for the reader to understand. -
Backpacking Basics
11 May 2012 | 11:30 amEveryone loves the great outdoors! Well… until something doesn’t go as planned… With the informative How to Choose & Use a Backpack infographic from REI, enjoying roughing it without having to, you know, rough it. Need a break from the daily multitasking merry-go-round? Trade in your digital devices for boots and backpacks—they’re your ticket to off-the-grid adventures and the wonders of the backcountry! With the right pack and a little preparation, you can head out for a day hike or a through-hike and say “CUL8R” to the daily… -
TEDTalk Video: Information is Food
9 May 2012 | 8:01 amIn March 2012, JP Rangaswami gave a short TEDTalk in Austin, TX, Information Is Food, about treating information similar to how we treat food. How do we consume data? At TED@SXSWi, technologist JP Rangaswami muses on our relationship to information, and offers a surprising and sharp insight: we treat it like food. With a background in economics and journalism, JP Rangaswami has been a technology innovator and chief information officer for many leading financial firms. As an advocate for open source and disruptive technologies, Rangaswami has been a leading force in the success of multiple… -
Client Infographic: Most Polluted Cities 2012
8 May 2012 | 7:35 amEvery year the American Lung Association releases a new State of the Air Report sharing their test results of air pollution across the U.S. This year, InfoNewt is working with them to release a series of infographic designs based on the 2012 report starting with the Most Polluted Cities in the United States 2012. Air pollution remains a serious threat to our health. For 13 years, the American Lung Association has analyzed data from state air quality monitors to compile the State of the Air report. The more you learn about the air you breathe, the more you can protect your health and… -
How Has Internet Changed Education?
7 May 2012 | 7:15 amHow has internet changed education infographic from SEO.com explores what kind of impact the Internet has on education. Ever had a question and found yourself on wikipedia? Apparently your not the only one! If you want evidence of the way the internet is pervading every aspect of our lives, you need look no further than its effect on education. The internet and social media have dramatically changed both teaching and learning. In fact, most students’ (an incredible 93 percent) first instinct when confronted with a research problem is to turn to Google or Bing to get information…
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The Descriptive Camera
16 May 2012 | 11:42 amThe unassuming little Descriptive Camera made me rethink data. This project by Matt Richardson was on display at the ITP Spring Show. The basic premise is that you take a photo and the camera spits out a textual description of what it sees. The results are remarkably accurate, detailed, and humorous. Here's what my photo said: A woman wearing a seriously awesome jacket that is printed with yellow, blue, and grey circles looks at her ipad rather than making eye contact with Matt Richardson. I mean, my jacket *IS* seriously awesome! So it not only described what it saw, but it also has great… -
What is missing?
16 May 2012 | 2:10 amWhat is Missing? by Maya Lin seeks to raise awareness about the mass extinction of species. It has a beautiful interface. The world map is black on a sea of black. Your mouse acts as a sort of flashlight layered between land and water, showing you glimpses of familiar coastlines and allowing you to select dots that tell the stories of extinction. We are experiencing the sixth mass extinction in the planet's history, and the only one to be caused not by a catastrophic event, but by the actions of a single species - mankind. On average, every 20 minutes a distinct living species of plant or… -
How to Visualize and Compare Distributions
16 May 2012 | 12:47 amThere are a lot of ways to show distributions, but for the purposes of this tutorial, I'm only going to cover the more traditional plot types like histograms and box plots. Otherwise, we could be here all night. Plus the basic distribution plots aren't exactly well-used as it is. Before you get into plotting in R though, you should know what I mean by distribution. It's basically the spread of a dataset. For example, the median of a dataset is the half-way point. Half of the values are less than the median, and the other half are greater than. That's only part of the picture. What happens in… -
ITP Spring Show: Iraq war and diabetes visualizations
15 May 2012 | 5:15 amYesterday I visited the ever popular NYU ITP bi-annual show which is a showcase of the students' experimental and ingenious interactive work. I stopped to talk to data visualization student and self-tracker, Doug Kanter, about his work. His first and smaller piece was about the war in Iraq. The image above depicts the number of wounded US soldiers by state (and territory) using the red stripes. The stars show the number of soldiers killed. I'm sure we could quibble about labels and where the bar chart starts, but to me, the tattered appearance of the flag created by data about war is very… -
Welcome Kim Rees
15 May 2012 | 4:16 amI'm going to be away for a couple of weeks, with little to no Internet access most of the time, so I've asked Kim Rees to step in while I'm gone. She's the co-founder of Periscopic, one of my favorite information visualization firms, and she was the technical editor for Visualize This. You're in good hands. You can follow her at @krees. Be good, and see you all when I get back. She's all yours, Kim.
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A Carefully Selected List of Recommended Tools
7 May 2012 | 7:51 amWhen I meet with people and talk about our work, I get asked a lot what technology we use to create interactive and dynamic data visualizations. At Interactive Things, we have a set of preferred libraries, applications and services that we use regularly in our work. We will select the most fitting tool for the job depending on the requirements of the project. Sometimes a really simple tool is all you need to create something meaningful. On other occasions, a more multifaceted repertoire is needed. But how does one choose the right thing to use? An endless list of every tool available, does… -
How We Visualized the Vividness of Geneva
25 Apr 2012 | 4:17 pmOver the last few months we’ve been kept busy with designing visualizations for the project “Ville Vivante”. Based on the premise that the mobile phone has become the center of our everyday communication and main source of information, the City of Geneva, in cooperation with the Lift conference, decided to take the challenge to visualize the digital traces created by our mobile phones. As implied by the title “Ville Vivante” – “Living City” –, the goal of the project was to visualize the urban flow of everyday life and make it visible to passersby at the local… -
Pathline: Connecting Designers With Scientists
18 Apr 2012 | 7:43 amWe recently attended an interdisciplinary visualization workshop that was all about creating a dialogue between scientists, technologists and designers. It was interesting to discuss the different ways in which these groups think about visualization and how they use it for different purposes. Very bluntly put, each group lacks something another group knows and cares deeply about, be it an understanding of colour [we met in the UK] or an understanding of statistics.We had a deep discussion on interdisciplinarity, whether one person should feel comfortable and knowledgable enough doing work in… -
New Maps for the Web by Stamen
21 Mar 2012 | 7:07 pmI just left the Stamen studio where I had a brief chat with founder and CEO Eric Rodenbeck. He enthusiastically showed me their newest work: maps.stamen.com. As part of the CityTracking project, the savvy folks at Stamen have put create three sets of map tiles to be used with OpenStreetMap data. These tiles are not your average map using custom colored vector paths. Instead Eric and his team tried to push the boundaries of what we consider feasible in mapping on the web.Toner is a high-contrast black and white tile set that is optimized to focus on the actual shapes found in maps without… -
Four Ways to Slice Obama’s 2013 Budget Proposal
14 Feb 2012 | 1:20 amShan Carter‘s latest interactive for The New York Times offers four ways to slice Obama’s 2013 federal budget proposal. The $3.7 trillion in spending can be analyzed by type of spending, changes to discretionary spending, department totals and of course all together. In all of the charts, the data is represented as bubbles. The size equals the proposed amount and the color indicates a cut or an increase in spending from 2012. Although each chart has an individual layout, the transitions between them is extremely smooth and helps the user to make sense of the underlying data.View…
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Venngage: And Yet Another Online Infographics Editor
15 May 2012 | 4:11 pmAfter 2 very similar posts in a very small timeframe, featuring Easel.ly and infogr.am respectively, I seem not to be able to follow the 'automatic infographics editing' scene fast enough. Automatic resume infographics creator visualize.me has just launched Venngage [venngage.com], which aims to empower people to create beautiful infographics in minutes, so that "creating infographics [becomes] as easy as creating a Powerpoint presentation". As a unique feature, Venngage's visual elements are displayed as pure HTML elements, which should positively influence SEO stats, page ranks and back… -
infogr.am: Another Online Editor of Interactive Infographics
15 May 2012 | 3:28 pmA few days ago, we posted the website Easel.ly, a new web-based service that aims to empower lay users to design infographic-like illustrations within the browser. Unfortunately, Easel.ly seems more apt in combining infographic-like images on a canvas, than to link real numerical data to a graphical form. So here comes Infogr.am [infogr.am], another competitor towards semi-automatic, web-based infographics editing. Developed by a start-up based in Riga (Latvia), though now based in London, the online service offers a collection of infographic themes as well as different interactive chart… -
The Historical Evolution of Europe's Borders
15 May 2012 | 2:36 pmThe movie "Epic time-lapse map of Europe" fast forwards a map from the year 1000 AD until 2003 to reveal the dynamic nature of Europe's borders, alliances, unions, territories, and occupied lands. An alternative movie takes a bit longer, but contains useful textual annotations such as the actual year that is shown and the events that occurred. The movie was made with "Centennia Historical Atlas" by Centennia Software. Watch the movies below. Via @tillnm. -
FatFonts: New Font Links Value of a Number to Amount of Pixels Shown
11 May 2012 | 8:47 amFatFonts [fatfonts.org] is a novel numeric typeface for data visualization purposes. The design of FatFonts is based on Arabic numerals, but the amount of ink (i.e. dark pixels) used for each digit is proportional to its quantitative value. This font enables the reading of numerical data while still preserving an overall visual context. The typeface was developed by Miguel Nacenta, Uta Hinrichs and Sheelagh Carpendale at the University of Calgary. In the online gallery several case studies are documented on how this font can be used for good used. More detailed information about these… -
Easel.ly Debutes Online Editor of Infographics
10 May 2012 | 2:02 pmSan Diego-based start-up Easel.ly [easel.ly] is offering a beta service that allows lay people to design and implement their own "infographics" via an online editor. The user-based customization of infographics seems to be the next phase after the automatic generation of infographics, and has already been promised by community websites like visual.ly. For now, easel.ly allows users to drag and drop predefined and uploaded vector images on pre-designed canvases and themes for easy creation and customization of infographics. According to the founders Patrick Alcoke and Neil Harris, all themes…
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Always look out for shady vans.
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What would you grab if the house was on fire?
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Interactive Data Visualization
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Join me for a mobility microforum at SAPPHIRE NOW next week!
8 May 2012 | 5:04 pmI am very excited next week to join Wei Wang for a Micro forum titled “Take Your Business on the Road with Mobile BI.” There, I will be answering business or technology questions about the latest technology standards and platforms and apps. There are many and the exciting things I am seeing from SAP and the SAP ecosystem within the business analytics space. I heard today that they actually scheduled a second session due to popularity so make sure you get it on your agenda quick! SESSION DETAILS view details on SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference Web page Monday, 02:00… -
Shifting Focus From Dashboards to Apps
4 May 2012 | 2:07 amIf you have been wondering why things have been quiet on my blog, it is because I have been in the trenches with my team grinding out the remaining pieces of GMaps Mobile. This week, we finally loaded up its permanent resting place, GMapsMobile.com along with a short whitepaper I wrote entitled “Enterprise Mobile Apps State of Mind.” With a most of the hard work out of the way, my team and I now get to build on top of our brand new platform all of mobile location intelligence ideas that were impossible to accomplish within Xcelsius. As a long time Xcelsius evangelist, it has… -
HTML5 Used as Marketing Babel Instead of Technology Value?
3 Apr 2012 | 1:52 pmI have been following the adoption of HTML5 for a few years when my organization took the plunge in converting our Flash expertise over to the latest open web standards. It has been a painful and eye opening experience, though we picked up a lot of knowledge along the way. During this time, I have noticed several products or demonstrations where HTML5 was a key selling point. The first problem I have with HTML5 as a selling point is most enterprise organizations can’t use HTML5 powered applications on the desktop because of browser compatibility. The second problem I have is some of… -
Webinar Alert: Advanced Techniques to Design Xcelsius Dashboards Like the Gurus
19 Mar 2012 | 11:05 amFor those of you who joined me during BI2012 in Vegas a few weeks ago, I promised a follow up session to present the second half of my advanced Xcelsius development presentation. The guys at WISPubs set it up for this week, so I look forward this coming Thursday. Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM EDT https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/366715382 -
WISPubs 2012
4 Mar 2012 | 10:30 pmThis last week, I was at WISPubs BI2012 conference for a few days and presenting a topic: ”Advanced Techniques to Design an Xcelsius Dashboard Like the Gurus” Unfortunately, while the content was fantastic I had a series of presentation blunders. Two hours of content in a one hour slot is doable with editing… However i didn’t know I only had one hour until the end. I committed to the group a free webinar where I will present the second half. I am still working out the details, so one way or another we will get something setup this week. For those of you who…
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Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media
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Zero Tolerance Search : 24 year old neuroscientist
12 May 2012 | 4:44 pm[The idea behind 'zero tolerance search' posts is to illustrate real life search interactions that show how far we have to go in leveraging the explicit and implicit data in the web and elsewhere.] Yesterday, I heard part of an interview on NPR. The interview was around a new book on determinism and neuroscience. The only thing I remember about the author was his young age. I wanted to recover the name of the author and the title of his new book so that I could comment on his argument against determinism (which was, essentially, 'I'm afraid of determinism therefore it… -
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Graphing Twitter Attention
30 Apr 2012 | 9:39 amtrack // microsoft (and games and movies) now includes a simple graph indicating the attention being given to each cluster of posts. This graph shows the total of tweets per hour for all posts in the cluster. Below is an example from the cluster around Steve Wozniak's positive comments for his Windows Phone. -
Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 Problem - A Solution
22 Apr 2012 | 10:08 amBriefly - there is plenty of chatter (see track // microsoft) about the possibility that Microsoft won't be upgrading existing handsets to Windows Phone 8. However, Hal makes a very interesting point in his post on the topic. The problem is not the upgrade, it is the users. Simply give them all a new Windows Phone 8 hand set for free - problem solved. -
Finding New Story Links Through Blog Clustering
20 Apr 2012 | 12:15 amThe basic mechanism used in track // microsoft to cluster articles is similar to that used by Techmeme. A fixed set of blogs are crawled and clustered based on specific features such as link structure and content (and in the case of Techmeme, additional human input). However, what about blogs that aren't known to the system? I recently added a feature to track // microsoft which analyses clusters for popular urls and adds those to the bottom of the cluster. The title of the web page is used as a simple description of the popular page. In the recent story about Nuno Silva's mistaken…
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Well-formed data
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Muesli Ingredient Network
1 May 2012 | 2:48 pmI put a little new project online, analyzing which ingredients were ordered together most often in custom muesli mixtures from mymuesli.com customers. Besides chocolate, nuts and oat, the project description also features a little excursion on matrix views of networks, and conditional probabilities. -
Global Trade Flows
22 Feb 2012 | 3:15 pmFinally, at least some documentation for the “Global Trade Flows” project I completed last year for citibank. Unfortunately, I cannot publish the full interactive tool, but I hope the screenshots are informative enough. -
Data Stories
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WEF Risk Report 2012
11 Jan 2012 | 2:26 pmFor the third year in a row, I was responsible for a good deal of the graphics in the annual Global Risk Report published by the World Economic Forum. For the report, hundreds of experts take part in a survey on their perception of what they consider the most important global risk and their inter–dependency. Three types of graphics are at the heart of the report: The “crystal” network diagram sheds light on the “Centers of Gravity” (systemically most important risks) in each category (Economic, Environmetal, Societal, Geopolitical, and Technological Risks) and the risks strongest… -
Substratum interview
15 Dec 2011 | 5:04 amThe fine folks over at Interactive Things interviewed a few great designers and hackers for their substratum interview series. I also answered some questions — read the interview here.
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Sankey Diagrams
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Forced air and IR heating
23 Apr 2012 | 11:10 amThe below two Sankey diagrams can be found in the following open access article: A. Kavga, G. Alexopoulos, V. Bontozoglou, S. Pantelakis, and Th. Panidis, “Experimental Investigation of the Energy Needs for a Conventionally and an Infrared-Heated Greenhouse,” Advances in Mechanical Engineering, vol. 2012, Article ID 789515, 16 pages, 2012. doi:10.1155/2012/789515 Conventional forced air heating of a greenhouse Infrared (IR) heating of a greenhouse . The arrows have a fancy 3D effect. No quanitative reference is given, but the article mentions that “the diagrams are qualitatively… -
Global Oil Flows
19 Apr 2012 | 6:33 amI am back after a few weeks of holiday. To get into posting again, here is a quick one I found at Graphic Design Forum in a discussion thread on software for creating trade flows (in this case oil flows) on a world map. Flows in million tonnes (per year?). Scale element at the bottom left. No visible arrow direction, but instead a blue to green gradient on each band (blue for export, green for import). Middle East region being the lasrgest exporter remains a problem with a very wide Sankey arrow leaving through the Indian Ocean. -
Consumer Spending Breakdown Sankey
13 Mar 2012 | 9:03 amCarl-Johan Skoeld of China-based strategic advisory firm Stenvall Skoeld & Company presented the following Sankey diagram in his recent post on ‘How a 31-year old Shanghai office worker spends his money’. (Stenvall Skoeld & Company via ChartPorn) This is a fine sample of a Sankey diagram that merits some more explanation: In fact, these are two combined Sankey diagrams. The overall sum of 10,000 RMB income breaks down to some 25% taxes, 19% savings and 56% spendings (consumption). The Sankey arrow representing the disposable income is then zoomed to allow for more detail… -
Transfer Price for Soccer Player
12 Mar 2012 | 7:56 amBlog reader W. Rufer sent a scan of a Sankey diagram from his favourite soccer magazine. Rufer writes: “I found this rather unusual Sankey diagram in a German soccer magazine called 11Freunde (11Friends). It visualizes the career of French international Nicolas Anelka in terms of transfer and lending fees. He started in the youth team of Paris Saint-Germain, changed to their first team in 1995 and got sold to Arsenal for 750’000 € (left side of the Sankey diagram). From there he made his way through Europe, sometimes for incredible transfer fees of about 35 million €. Now, as… -
Economy Maps – visualizing environmental impacts
6 Mar 2012 | 9:58 amFollowing up to yesterdays post on the supply chain visualization by TRUTHstudio. Imagine the concept described for the meat production sector blown up to cover the all sectors of the U.S. economy, and showing all the links between these sectors. There you are: Economy Maps, “an interactive visual map of the United States economy and its environmental impacts” by Jason Pearson. In the first version the economy maps covered 24 major sector groups, and were apparently “static”. However, they already were beautifully designed Sankey-style maps of the environmental impacts…
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Junk Charts
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No sorting and lack of structure undermine a chart
15 May 2012 | 6:52 amReader Daniel L. isn't impressed with this page of charts about gay rights in the U.S., from the Guardian paper (London). (link) The use of circles to organize data has a long history, stretching back at least to the Nightingale rose, which turns the time dimension into a circle. Andrew doesn't like this concept (e.g. here), neither do I. Here is something similar by McCandless (link) that has appeared on this blog. Take the following set of charts showing the legislative differences by region of the country. Since states within region are categories with no order,… -
Look what I found: two amazing charts
2 May 2012 | 6:00 pmWhile doing some research for my statistics blog, I came across a beauty by Lane Kenworthy from almost a year ago (link) via this post by John Schmitt (link). How embarrassing is the cost effectiveness of U.S. health care spending? When a chart is executed well, no further words are necessary. I'd only add that the other countries depicted are "wealthy nations". Even more impressive is this next chart, which plots the evolution of cost effectiveness over time. An important point to note is that the U.S. started out in 1970 similar to the other nations. Let's appreciate this… -
A matter of compactness
29 Apr 2012 | 10:00 pmAndrew Gelman may have nominated himself the graphics advisor for the World Happiness Report (link). That would be a very good thing. To kick this off, I re-made the Figures 2.1-2.2.8 in the report, which summarized the findings of the Gallup World Poll covering annual samples of 1,000 people aged 15 and over from each of 150 countries. (These charts are effectively the first charts to appear in the report. There is no Figure 1 because Chapter 1 has no charts. The report also inexplicably follows the outdated academic-publishing convention of banishing all diagrams to the end of the report as… -
Flooding the Himalayas
26 Apr 2012 | 11:27 pmJust a quick post today as I've been traveling. Reader Chris P. sent in this map showing tsunami risk around the world: I don't have a larger version but here is Chris's comment: Not that residents of Lake Tahoe should worry about tsunamis, but the map makes it look like they should... I'm not sure what's going on here because in some cases (India, Australia), apparently the entire country is subject to tsunami risk. Surely, the water won't rise up the Himalayas?
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Juice Analytics
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“Dad, how do you say ‘indigo’ in Japanese?”
8 May 2012 | 9:00 am(A conversation about data) The other day my seven year old asked, “How do you say indigo in Japanese?” I said, “Why do you want to know?” His response: “Just curious.” I love every interaction with my kids, but especially the ones where they surprise me. This particular interaction got me thinking about how tightly linked certain questions are to specific conversations. When it comes to data, it’s no different. The conversation that surrounds a question is as important as the question itself. Both have context, a set of relevant questions and hopefully a… -
The Conflicted Data Analyst
24 Apr 2012 | 9:05 amAmericans are a painfully conflicted people. We love our TV and movie violence but worry that it ruins our children’s minds. We want to reduce healthcare costs, but don’t want to restrict the free market. We love Justin Bieber, but hate ourselves for loving a Canadian. Conflicts like these leave little room for a satisfactory answer. Basic principles are in conflict and deeply-rooted desires run up against painful consequences. We don’t want to choose, and the middle ground feels like failure. The people who practice data analysis and visualization have their own set of immutable… -
Who’s the champ?
3 Apr 2012 | 1:36 pmIt’s over. The people have spoken and their voice is loud and clear. Google Search is the champ. Google’s mission: “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”. Now they can add a subtitle, “ha ha, iPhone”. Google Search knocked out a who’s who in the Gadget space. Let’s look at how they got the win. Round 1: The Flip camera (93-7) Round 2: Kindle (85-15) Round 3: iPod (81-19) Round 4: GPS (55-45) Semifinals: Amazon Store (71-29, where do we go to get all those gadgets) Finals: iPhone (75-25) Google… -
Talk to _people_ about your data
2 Apr 2012 | 12:05 pmI need your help. I want to ask my wife if she’d like to go see a movie with me. Which way do you think I should go: Option 1: “Interested in catching the 7PM showing of Hunger Games at the AMC?” Option 2: Time: 7PM Movie: Hunger Games Location: AMC Attend? Well, we both know the answer: she might be inclined to take me up on my offer either way, but with the second option, she might also be inclined to make me sit on a different row. We know that when we talk to people, we have to do so in a way that feels warm and personal. Why is it then, that when we design systems for… -
Clash of the Titans: iPhone versus Google Search
1 Apr 2012 | 12:37 pmIt’s been a long road. A road fraught with jubilation. A road fraught with tears. A road fraught with… well, you get the idea. Now we have the final two. It is iPhone over Wikipedia and Google Search over Amazon Store. And not even close: (click to see the semi-finals results) So, who will take it all? Will it be iPhone or Google Search on the throne: (click to see and download a larger version) Now vote! Remember, your picks should be based on: influence: changed how we thought about a problem and future technology solutions innovative: new and different, why didn’t I think…
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DesignNotes by Michael Surtees
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The Mobile(s) Web Speed
13 May 2012 | 10:35 amThe I Heart Etsy iPad app from Gesture Theory has had some modest success so far with the number of downloads. It’s not a cash cow but the consistency is nothing to blink at if it stays the same for the year. The feedback has been positive from the Etsy community with helpful suggestions on how it can be improved upon. The most fascinating thing that was slightly unexpected was watching the live Google Analytics with the page views per minute. People were hitting Etsy with the app at over 100 page views per minute. People were literally going through 2 pages per second. I’ve never… -
The I Heart Etsy iPad App
6 May 2012 | 12:48 pmI’m really happy to mention that Gesture Theory launched the I Heart Etsy iPad app. It was really exciting to see how we could build a product like this internally. If you’re a fan of Etsy and have an iPad, this makes the discovery process really fast. We’ve also added some fun ways for a person to heart a product or section. He’re our description in the iTunes store: *** Optimized for iPad Retina *** I Heart Etsy was designed especially for Etsy lovers. It provides an ideal browsing experience and seamlessly integrates with your Etsy profile to make your shopping… -
Benches of Sullivan st
27 Apr 2012 | 8:04 amNYC is big and unique enough that it’s hard for me to say there’s one city street that is my favourite. I really like walking down Elizabeth early on a Saturday morning. The contrasting nuances between that street with Bowery and Canal are a plenty. I also like Thompson. It’s kind of cozy with the smaller shops and what feels like low hanging trees in the summer. A couple months ago I started switching up my walking to work paths. One day Thompson, the next Sullivan st. Over time I’d test out the different coffee shops for my early morning fix. My hands down favourite… -
Diehards Type Test
25 Apr 2012 | 8:41 amOver at Gesture Theory we’re testing out a couple fonts for a project. Being someone that really enjoys the craft of typography I thought it was a great opportunity to put the three typefaces that are in consideration against each other. The other day I tweeted about diehards. Curious to see how it read on a different scale I’m using it for the text comparison. Below is a bit more information about each typeface from the foundries. About Guardian from Commercial Type (PDF): A large family intended for editorial design and situations requiring complex typographic hierarchy,… -
Now that watch batteries are dead
14 Apr 2012 | 2:39 pmThe USB cable is the best thing to happen to watches since the removable strap. I’ve had my ups and downs with the Nike+ GPS watch. Great concept but poorly executed. Awful typeface, gps worked sometimes and the site that showed my data was pretty limited. What it did show me was that a watch didn’t need a normal battery. I just had to connect it to my USB port on my air to charge it. The new pebble is about to kickstart something that is long overdue. It does not rely on old battery power, it can talk with the most used devices in the world and it gives an opportunity to improve…
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Visual Business Intelligence
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Information Technology and the Loss of Common Sense
16 May 2012 | 1:00 pmI have a low tolerance for stupidity and waste. For this reason, I oppose unnecessary bureaucracy whenever possible. For instance, when a potential client asks me to review and sign a lengthy contract before accepting their invitation to teach a course or speak at an event—typically a one to three day engagement—I tell them “No thanks, I’ll pass.” Experience has taught me that, in addition to the time it takes to read the contract, revisions are always required. One size fits all service contracts, usually written for long-term software development engagements,… -
Confusion in the Age of Data
1 May 2012 | 3:41 pmContrary to popular opinion, we do not yet live in the Information Age. At best, we live in the Data Age—a time when bits of data constantly zoom past our eyes and buzz past our ears, yet few of them inform us meaningfully and usefully. We’re spending millions to put all of that “Big Data” into “The Cloud” without first learning how to separate the signals from the noise. A storm cloud of our own making is already raining confusion down upon us. Last week I gave a keynote presentation and taught a course at the Teradata Universe conference in Dublin, Ireland. -
The Gullibility of BI Professionals
17 Apr 2012 | 3:01 pmIs the ability to think critically too much to expect of business intelligence (BI) professionals? How about BI professionals who support institutions of higher learning? Wouldn’t it be reasonable to expect high levels of critical thinking from them? Unfortunately, a recent experience has called this into question. I’m currently in Austin, Texas where I’ll be teaching one of my public workshops this week. On Sunday, I taught a visual data analysis course here on the campus of the University of Texas at the annual conference of HEDW (Higher Education Data Warehousing). I… -
In Memory of Andreas Lipphardt
3 Apr 2012 | 12:43 pmEarlier this year I was saddened to learn that Andreas Lipphardt, the co-founder and chief executive of the business intelligence software company BonaVista Systems, died tragically on January 27. With a team of never more than three or four people, BonaVista Systems made useful, affordable, effective, and desperately needed data visualization tools that functioned as add-ins to Excel. The company’s first and best-known product was MicroCharts, which added to Excel the ability to embed sparklines and bullet graphs into cells of a spreadsheet. Andreas was the heart of BonaVista Systems. -
Dashboard Insight and the Objectivity of Sources
26 Mar 2012 | 10:32 amWhen you’re looking for reliable information—especially guidance—pay close attention to the sources. Experience has taught me to approach information with a skeptical eye and to always identify and scrutinize the source. This has become especially important since the advent of the Internet. The anonymity of the Web makes it easy for people to claim expertise or to feign objectivity that is lacking. Organizations often publish information that is tailored to serve their own interests, and their interests are often not ours. When you know the source and are aware of its motives and…
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INFOGRAPHIC: WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH AN EXTRA 2 HOURS?
15 May 2012 | 12:20 pmKristel Cuenta has added a photo to the pool: What would you do if the information you needed was readily available, giving you back part of that two hours every day? Check out this Domo infographic to see some of the most common – and surprising – answers. Image Source: www.domo.com/blog/2012/05/infographic-what-would-you-do-w... -
Evolution of Diaper
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Tecnologías Latinoamérica
15 May 2012 | 12:40 amjose.duarte has added a photo to the pool: El problema de la tecnología en Latinoamérica. Diagrama basado en Oficio de Cartógrafo, Tecnología: innovaciones culturales y usos culturales, Jesús Martín Barbero. -
Ação BB
15 May 2012 | 12:04 amMarco Vergotti has added a photo to the pool: Campanha de ação do Banco do Brasil - Variação do produto final
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What Is An Infographic?
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How A Book is Born
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Big Time Heists
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Take a Car-cation
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Leveraging Internal and External Social Influence
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Infographic World
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ESPN Infographic: Luck vs RG3
29 Apr 2012 | 5:41 pmESPN asked us to do an infographic comparing the college careers and numbers of the #1 and #2 overall picks in the NFL Draft: Stanford’s Andrew Luck and Baylor’s Robert Griffin III. This infographic breaks down their total careers stats, along with their combine numbers and other interesting stats about the 2 quarterbacks. -
ESPN Infographic: NFL Draft
26 Apr 2012 | 8:55 amFor our latest infographic, ESPN asked us to do an in-depth look back at the history of the NFL Draft. There were some amazing facts and figures we found, covering everything from the best undrafted players, the change in guaranteed salaries over the years, as well as who the best early and late round picks were. -
Infographic Poll
18 Apr 2012 | 7:01 pmWe teamed up with the amazing polling community of Sodahead to find out from you how you feel about infographics as a whole. Check out this poll to let your voice be heard and vote on the 8 questions. We’d love to hear your thoughts in there. -
ESPN Infographic: Opening Day
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Sea-Waves Infographic: High Schoolers Then and Now
2 Apr 2012 | 5:21 pmWe take a fun look back at the differences between high schoolers 20 years ago and high schoolers of today. You might be surprised at some of the findings…
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Daily Infographic
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Money & The Food Industry [infographic]
16 May 2012 | 8:00 amIt’d be an understatement to say America loves food. The food industry is one of the most lucrative in the country and the big wigs of fast food chains are raking in the doe, while their foot soldiers run the business essentially. A fast-food worker is regarded to as the lowest median paying job in the U.S., according to the infographic. Getting paid between $6.80 and $7.90 an hour, members of the food service industry are forced to work a little harder for extra cash. The tip. It’s a word known to rear it’s head around the close of a meal. On average, we tip 17.5%. The… -
Instagram Addict [infographic]
15 May 2012 | 8:00 amThis infographic might as well be “how to spot any one of my friends who happen to all be instragram junkies.” Instagram is my favorite iPhone (and now android I suppose) app. It turns any average joe, like myself, into a fake photographer. While instagram talent isn’t something to marvel too hard at, it is a fun, creative way to share your life in pictures. I know many people who constantly keep their phone at eye level, take far to many pictures of meals, pets and nature, and I know I have definitely ran into a car or a wall while taking a photo. Does this mean we are all… -
E-Books in America [infographic]
14 May 2012 | 9:33 amE-Books, are they as popular as we thought they would become? Well yes and no, while they are not quite as popular as printed books at the moment. They are becoming more and more popular with 17% of Americans having read an e-book before the 2011 holidays and 21% after. While not a staggering stat, it does show people like e-books and more importantly there is growth in popularity. While printed books remain the top choice for readers those reading e-books with e-content reportedly spend more time reading. With e-content a reader is allowed to get more involved in what they’re reading. -
Behind Birthstones [Infographic]
13 May 2012 | 1:11 pmIt’s that time of year again: today is Mother’s Day. I know that I’ve overlooked this holiday by accident in the past and as a result I’ve had to scramble in order to get gifts for the mothers in my family, which is never fun. For those last-minute shoppers out there thinking to themselves “what could I possibly get in this little amount of time that I have?” I have today’s infographic from online jeweler Brilliance.com, which outlines the significance and meaning behind the 12 precious gems known as birthstones. Jewelry might not be the cheapest… -
Overview of Health Insurance [infographic]
12 May 2012 | 8:00 amHealth insurance is a hotly debated topic in this year’s presidential elections. Obama-care has some citizens fuming over the possibility universal healthcare. But before I go preaching about my thoughts on Obama-care, we should get a full grasp of what health insurance entails for a buyer. Today’s infographic gives a thorough explanation of how the health insurance industry works. One thing for sure, the health insurance industry is a booming business, the typical 22-year old will pay $4,000,000 for health care and insurance in his or her lifetime. I personally don’t really know too…
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Best Infographics
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Choose the Right College {Infographic}
16 May 2012 | 7:22 amGoing to college is a big decision. It is not something you should go for without doing research. Figuring out what you want to study and finding schools that fit your situation can take a bit of time. This infogrpahic by Course Hero gives you an idea what you need to think about to choose the right college for you: -
Instagram 101 Infographic
15 May 2012 | 7:01 amInstagram has been the talk of the tech world in the past few weeks. The site first released an app for Android and then was quickly bought by Facebook. Millions of folks are active on the site, contributing and discovering photos all the time. This infographic by Online Colleges shows how far Instagram has come over the years. -
Your Next Gadget {Infographic}
14 May 2012 | 6:04 amEvery year that goes by, we see even more awesome gadgets released to the market. The smartphones and tablets of today are much more capable than the ones released a couple of years ago. In a few years, tablet sales will roughly parallel PC sales. Close to 1b smartphones are expected to be sold by that year. Symphony Teleca has prepared an infographic that shows what features you can expect in your next device. Future handheld devices will be better in security, video editing, facial recognition and many areas. The next few years are going to be very exciting for gadget lovers. -
2011 World Car Sales Statistics #Infographic
13 May 2012 | 7:23 amMany auto executives have been concerned about the young generation not buying cars as often as previous generations. But people are still buying cars. GM, VW, Toyota, Nissan, and Ford are all selling a ton of cars across the globe. This infographic by Olathe Toyota shows how well various car makers did in the world’s biggest markets in 2011: -
Is America Obsessed with Lawsuits? {Infographic}
12 May 2012 | 7:24 amEvery day that goes by, we hear about all kinds of new lawsuits launched by all kinds of people. Considering that the majority of lawyers in the world live in the U.S, it is no wonder that this country is so lawsuit friendly. In fact, over 15m civil cases are filed in the U.S. on an annual basis. This infographic by eLocalLawyers shows why being a lawyer in the U.S. is a great career choice:
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The Infographics Showcase
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Money, Music & Piracy Statistics Infographic
16 May 2012 | 1:18 pmWhat’s included in this Money, Music and Piracy graphic: Total U.S. Music Sales from 1999 – 2008 Concert Tickets Sales from 2006 – 2011 Most Downloaded Songs of All Time (iTunes) Music Sales Breakdown, How the Money Gets Distributed How Much Artists Get Paid for a Live Concert Countries on the U.S. Priority Watchlist for Piracy Cost of Piracy to the U.S. and Global Economies Music Piracy Compared to Movie Piracy Infographic Review Infographic Design: A Certainly no small amount of time went into this infographic design. The stereo motif works well with the subject matter is… -
Fast Facts on Coffee Consumption Infographic
11 May 2012 | 4:01 pmInfographic about coffee drinking provided by Hamilton Beach providing quality coffee makers. Related Infographics:The History of the Blender Infographic The blender has been and is a popular kitchen appliance. ...17 Things You Didn’t Know About Your Morning Coffee Infographic Seeing as this is an infographic that lists 17 pieces ...The Buzz vs The Bulge This infographic outlines the calorie count of soda, coffee and ...Best Wines to Order When Flying Infographic Best Wine to Order When Flying the Friendly Skies Wine! Want ...Is it good to be single? An Infographic’s tale This… -
Funny Exercise Chart (Infographic)
11 May 2012 | 3:07 pmInfographic Review Infographic Design: B i am assuming the infographic design was supposed to mimic a cheesy and out-of-date poster you might find on a junior high gym wall. If so, this infographic does a great job of taking me back to the 80s when this type of poster was prevalent especially as a public service ad or notification. I will point out a few nice details I think were intentional to juice up the comedy in this funny infographic: turkey leg in hand while running to fridge, face on female co-worker as man lunges in her direction, bored expression by dog as it is lifted and the hairy… -
Air Pollution Facts Infographic
4 May 2012 | 6:37 amHey, surprise! Humans put out a lot of air pollution and this dirty, polluted infographic will show you just how filthy and polluting the human race really is. Wow, we suck! Infographic Review Infographic Design: B Every infographic doesn’t have to be huge and cause you to scroll for 2 minutes trying to view all the contents. Sometimes a shorter infographic can get its message across more effectively with a striking design and this infographic on air pollution comes very close to hit the mark. The gritty design is a natural fit for this polluted subject matter. The color choices are… -
Most Expensive Road Cars Infographic
3 May 2012 | 7:37 amThis infographic explores the fast lives of the rich and famous and what expensive cars they are driving. Infographic Review Infographic Design: C This car infographic doesn’t do anything to give itself a flat tire, in fact it is a very safe design that looks professional. That is why we gave it an average grade. It doesn’t break any design rules and doesn’t go past any design boundaries either. Grey and red are good color choices but they aren’t used with any real excitement. The car images are decent, but not anything to catch your eye. Some recognizable celebrity…
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Reprographics 101 (more than you ever wanted to know about the reprographics industry)
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Staples 1Q Profit Down 5.6% Amid International Weakness
16 May 2012 | 11:42 amNote: when I pulled down this article from the web, Staples’ stock was off over 7%, trading at $13.68 per share. It’s already bounced back up, somewhat, since then.Staples 1Q Profit Down 5.6% Amid International WeaknessBy DOW JONES NEWSWIRESPublished May 16, 2012Dow Jones NewswiresStaples Inc.'s (SPLS) fiscal first-quarter earnings fell 5.6% as the office-supply giant grappled with weaknesses in international operations, particularly Europe.Office suppliers such as Staples, the largest chain in the U.S., are operating in an deeply competitive retail climate marked by declining… -
AIA Architecture Billings Index (ABI) for April 2012
16 May 2012 | 11:33 amArchitecture Billings Index Reverts to Negative Territory Decline is possibly a brief pause from unusually strong winter activityContact: Scott Frank, 202-626-7467, sfrank@aia.orgFor immediate release: Washington, D.C. – May 16, 2012 – After five months of positive readings, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) has fallen into negative terrain. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI reflects the approximate nine to twelve month lag time between architecture billings and construction spending. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) reported the… -
At drupa, Senior Executives Take the 10,000-foot View
16 May 2012 | 7:11 amhttp://whattheythink.com/articles/57995-drupa-senior-executives-take-10000-foot-view/THIS ARTICLE IS FROM: WhatTheyThink BlogBy Patrick Henry Published: May 14, 2012As would be expected during an event of this kind, most of the media briefings at drupa were focused on product announcements and technology introductions. From time to time, though, speakers put the salesmanship aside and offered broader commentary on industry trends and print market conditions. Here are a few examples.For printers, mastery of production economics will be as crucial as the ability to print well, observed… -
The Future Of Reprographics
16 May 2012 | 7:08 am(THIS ARTICLE IS FROM: http://www.myprintresource.com)BY PAM MORTIMER, Created: May 1, 2012Reprographics shops have noticed significant changes in the way they do business. How can they use technology and an improved business model to attract new customers and to better serve those already on board?Reprographics shops have noticed significant changes in the way they do business. Technological improvements have assisted print service providers in improving productivity, increasing profitability, and reaching out to new clients.“There have been many trends affecting the… -
National / AZON Equipment announces acquisition of Paradigm Imaging Group’s Canon distribution division
15 May 2012 | 9:47 amTroy Michigan – May 11th, 2012 – National / AZON Equipment today announced that it has acquired the Canon distribution division of Paradigm Imaging Group. Based in Costa Mesa California, Paradigm Imaging Group are a systems integrator, service bureau and custom solutions provider to the reprographic, AEC and Government markets.“Customer service is a top priority at National / AZON Equipment. With this acquisition, we are enhancing our ability to service our growing customer base in the western states with Canon products and services” said David Dodge, President of National /AZON.
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INFOGRAPHR
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The Benefits of Digital Menu Boards
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Poker – Wild West vs Online
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Brain Hacks
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Ocean of Garbage
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The Cost of Early Childhood Education
26 Apr 2012 | 1:40 pmLittle bundles of money! Created by: EarlyChildhoodEducation.com
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Value Menu: The Top 12 Benefits of Digital Menu Boards
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A Brief History of Cougars
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The Business of College Sports
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Michelin Star Lunches
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Not Yo’ Mama’s Mama: A Mother’s Day Infographic
10 May 2012 | 11:50 amVia Internet Exposure.
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Value Menu: The Top 12 Benefits of Digital Menu Boards
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Not Yo’ Mama’s Mama: A Mother’s Day Infographic
10 May 2012 | 11:50 amVia Internet Exposure.
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Newsilike
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How Big is the Feng Shui industry on the Internet?
16 May 2012 | 7:30 amFeng shui is a Chinese system of geomancy believed to use the laws of both Heaven (Chinese astronomy) and Earth to help one improve life by receiving positive qi.[3] The original designation for the discipline is Kan Yu (simplified Chinese: 堪舆; traditional Chinese: 堪輿; pinyin: kānyú; literally: Tao of heaven and earth). But… How Big is the Feng Shui industry on the Internet? Like many other industries Feng Shui is becoming bigger and bigger on the Internet every year and the number of websites and social media profiles are growing more and more. However, no one knew much more… -
A Visual Guide to the Kentucky Derby
16 May 2012 | 4:30 am“A Visual Guide to The Kentucky Derby”, which details some popular topics and history facts on the most exciting two minutes in sports, the Kentucky Derby! The infogaphic was created by Derby Supply Chain Solutions which is a complete 3PL solution that specializes in assembly, packaging, warehousing and the distribution process. The Most Exciting Two Minutes In Infographics -
Nursing Career
16 May 2012 | 1:30 amConsidering the global shortage of nurses and increasing demand of medical experts, nursing is counted among the fastest growing occupations. The following infographic will provide you an insight how nursing has progressed over the years. Using detailed information and statistics, this infographic will enlighten about the various aspects of nursing in US and all over the world. Via: affordablenursingschools.com -
Mobile Apps Download Trends
15 May 2012 | 10:30 pmMobile Apps download has become immensely popular these days, all over the world In December 2011, Android exceeded 10 Bn Apps downloads. South Korea is leading in Mobile Apps downloading followed by Hongkong & Taiwan. Go through this beautiful yet entertaining infographic, designed by InfoGraphic Design Team, to learn about the amazing facts about the trends of downloading mobile apps. -
10 Things You Might Not Know About Physical Therapy
15 May 2012 | 7:30 pmThis photo infographic illustrates ten of the most common things people do not know about a job of physical therapist. Majority of people thinks physical therapist is some one close to massage therapist with advanced degree, but this infographic will open your eyes on what physical therapists actually and can do as well as some information what a job environment can look like if you are considering to get physical therapy degree.
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Infographic List
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15 Ridiculous Laws Around The World [INFOGRAPHIC]
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The Advertising Intern Must Do’s [INFOGRAPHIC]
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User Activity: Comparison Of Social Networking Sites [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Adding Technology To The Menu [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Your Momma’s So Connected… Moms And Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]
16 May 2012 | 5:00 amFiled under: Social Media Tagged: Connected, Moms, Social Media
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Infographics Archive
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Infographic: Are You Average?
15 May 2012 | 3:54 amComparison of average American non-essential expenditures versus cost of meeting an impoverished child’s basic needs. Brought to you by shaungroves.com. Brought to you by shaungroves.com -
Infographic: Bayern VS Chelsea: Can Chelsea Overcome The Odds in Munich?
15 May 2012 | 3:43 amThe Champions League Final – the biggest club competition in football. And it’s coming up this weekend! Can Chelsea overcome Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena? Bayern Munich havn’t lost a European game at home this season and Chelsea have won only once. On Chelsea’s side, you’ve got a pot of Abramovich cash mixed with the calm temperament of Roberto di Matteo and the passion of Lampard, Drogba and Cole. Bayern Munich have excelled this term through the talents of Gomez, Robben and Ribery. It’s all to play for, and the game is on! Who knows who’ll… -
Infographic: Summer Opportunities for Students
15 May 2012 | 3:34 amWith summer fast approaching, large numbers of high school and college students are searching for summer jobs, beginning an internship or enrolling in summer school. Other students choose to use summer as an opportunity to sleep in, hit the beach and take advantage of a carefree lifestyle. Brought to you by creditdonkey.com. Brought to you by creditdonkey.com -
Infographic: New Dads More Engaged at Home and Online
15 May 2012 | 3:28 amThe image of moms getting together at the play park to compare notes and swap stories on kids is timeless. Blogs, message boards, and other versions of social media geared to moms are the high-tech versions of this meeting of the minds. But it’s time for moms to move over, because modern dads are using their social media skills to brag and commiserate about their offspring and fatherhood. In past generations, dads were removed from the day-to-day care and feeding of their offspring, but times are changing. Diaper commercials no longer just feature mom and baby…new ad campaigns feature… -
Infographic: It’s All About the Images
14 May 2012 | 12:12 pmSome say image is everything, and that’s especially true on the Internet where the shift to visual optimization is playing an increasingly important role in the recent phenomenon of photo marketing. In light of their numerous benefits for brands of all kinds, MDG Advertising developed an insightful infographic that illustrates the influence of images on a company’s business, branding, search, and social media efforts. Brought to you by mdgadvertising.com. Brought to you by mdgadvertising.com
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Shopping Cart Abandonment Rate and Statistics
16 May 2012 | 1:03 am"Our infographic on “Shopping Cart Abandonment Rate Statistics” covers some interesting facts about Shopping cart abandonment , Online conversion, Major reasons why shoppers never complete the checkout process, What you should do to reduce the shopping cart abandonment rate of your website to increase your sales" -
Who is Reading Origins
16 May 2012 | 12:21 amOrigins, The Magazine by BermudaQuest, features articles about archaeology, ancient history, and stories about different cultures from around the world to a broad audience of scholars, students, and the public. This infographic displays data about our readers - where they read from [devices and networks] and how much they read. The magazine is concerned with the entire range of themes and concepts found within each of these fields throughout the world. It therefore offers all scholars involved in such research a unique opportunity to publish well-illustrated accounts of their work for a… -
Solar Blues
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Big Data, Big Returns
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The Pop Up Restaurant Phenomenon
15 May 2012 | 7:07 pmAn overview of the Pop Up Restaurant Phenomenon that's sweeping the culinary world!
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Infographics | CouponCabin Blog
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Infographic: The Skinny on Dining Out
3 May 2012 | 4:00 amAre restaurant menus ruining our health ambitions? Who doesn’t want a perfect evening out, away from the kitchen and the mass of dishes? Most Americans love dining out, but even those who can afford the luxury are abstaining from restaurant … Continue reading → -
Infographic: The High Price of Prom
19 Apr 2012 | 4:00 amThe astronomical price tag may be keeping some high schoolers from participating in one of the most memorable social events of their youth: prom. According to a 2012 Visa survey, the average cost of prom is at an all-time high. … Continue reading → -
Infographic: Does Birth Order Influence Financial Behavior?
5 Apr 2012 | 4:00 amNumerous studies have attempted to prove, and consequently disprove, the birth order theory first proposed by Alfred Adler, an Austrian psychotherapist and Sigmund Freud collaborator. Does birth order truly play a significant role in outlining our personalities, or is this merely a … Continue reading → -
Infographic: Mad About March Madness
15 Mar 2012 | 4:00 amMarch Madness is about hardcore hoop playing by collegiate super-athletes, but the real madness of America’s favorite tournament is actually in the revenue it generates. Exclusive TV deals, colossal coach salaries and heavy betting have turned the most celebrated tradition … Continue reading → -
Infographic: How to Save $5,000 a Year
27 Feb 2012 | 4:00 amWith gadgets, apps and programs galore, keeping track of finances has never been easier. Still, most Americans seem to burn through their paycheck without even realizing where their hard-earned dollars went. Experts say that without careful preparation and keeping track … Continue reading →
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The Cloud Infographic
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A Guide to Sharing Broadcast Video Files in the Cloud
16 May 2012 | 5:03 amAre you involved in video production activities? If so, you should already knew that a modern video production project involves many activities – collecting footage, move video files into the system, review and edit (and review and edit again… and again…) – before a final version is released. It’s pretty much like any complex project [...] -
Cloud-based Apps for Business
15 May 2012 | 4:06 amThe rising popularity of cloud-based apps has particularly helped small and medium businesses (SMBs) to be more productive while reducing operational costs. Today, small businesses don’t have to invest their capital and hard earned cash on IT infrastructure; what they need to do is now plugging their business into the cloud and start benefiting from [...] -
Evaluating Cloud Accounting Software
14 May 2012 | 5:17 amIf your company uses accounting software, you need to be aware that there are new technologies introduced into the market that can help your company to be more effective and efficient managing all of your accounting needs. Hanging onto the “old-reliable” software might be counter productive. It is best for you, either as a business [...] -
Google Drive and the Battle for The Cloud
11 May 2012 | 3:41 amGoogle has been known as “category killer” for some time. Let’s take one of the examples: Web search. In web search, Google was 10 years late entering the web search market – however it quickly established itself and be a category killer, now grabbing 65 percent of search market. Online ads? AdWords and AdSense kill [...] -
Red Hat Enterprise PaaS
10 May 2012 | 3:15 amThe cloud can help developers build apps quickly with the growing-in-popularity Platform as a Service (PaaS). According to an infographic by Red Hat, PaaS global market will grow 26 percent per annum through 2014, with a projected market size of $1.8 billion by 2015. Those figures show that PaaS will continue to have a strong [...]
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Wrapping your head around schizophrenia
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Just How Well Are E-Books Doing In America? An Infographic.
13 May 2012 | 5:03 amWe constantly get asked if we actually read on our iPad. With the sexy new Retina display in the new iPad, I’m certainly doing more reading on the device, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say that I use it exclusively for all my reading. That brings up a question. Just how well are E-Books doing in America? The fine folks over at Online Universities have put together a nifty infographic that attempts to draw some conclusions on the topic…… Excerpt from the original article Source :… -
New York City Now Fastest-Growing Tech Hub [INFOGRAPHIC]
13 May 2012 | 5:02 amSilicon Valley may still be the biggest tech hub in the U.S., but New York City is now the fastest growing tech sector in the country — surpassing Boston for the top spot, according to a new study. A report by The Center for an Urban Future found that thousands of tech jobs have been added in New York City over the past few years when other industries have been hurting amid a struggling economy. Over the past five years, tech-related jobs in ….. Excerpt from the original article Source : http://mashable.com/2012/05/09/new-york-city-tech/ -
[Infographic] Twitter Account Showdown: @Netflix vs. @Hulu
13 May 2012 | 5:00 amAn infographic from Visual.ly showing who’s more popular on Twitter: Netflix or Hulu?After my last post, “[Venn Diagram] Netflix vs. Hulu Plus at a glance[5]“, I decided to try Visual.ly again and see how Netflix and Hulu compare on Twitter. At first I was going to compare @Netflix to @HuluPlus, but HuluPlus’ follower count was too low.Below is an infographic comparing Neflix’s and Hulu’s impact on Twittter….. Excerpt from the original article Source : http://gbstechnews.com/2012/05/04/twitter-account-showdown-netflix-vs-hulu/ -
Has Hollywood Lost its Way?
13 May 2012 | 4:59 amWe love short films, but we also follow the larger film industry and how the web is changing how we watch films. Much has been said over the last few days about the bleak year for theatrical films with year-end box office sales down 3.8% compared to last year and attendance down 4.7% (Box Office Mojo). But there’s been less coverage of a bigger problem looming over the film industry—one that would be hard to blame on a bad year—the growing scarcity of original stories ….. Excerpt from the original article Source :…
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Movement in Manhattan Video
8 May 2012 | 2:20 amIn my last post about visualizing Movement in Manhattan I mentioned that it would be interesting to explore a more direct view of the data by using an animation. I have created such a video based on a fresh collection of tweets from Monday, April 30th. I gathered new data because I realized that my previous data set was collected over the weekend and I suspected that a weekday might provide more obvious patterns. It compresses 24 hours of data into 1 minute of video. Here it is: I was influenced by the 'Fireflies' video showing iPhone traces done by Michael Kreil. In particular, I like the… -
Movement in Manhattan
18 Apr 2012 | 6:35 amInspired by the beautiful and elegant Interactive Wind Map created by Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg I have begun to explore the flow of people within a city. An ideal dataset to do this would include the GPS traces from thousands of people wearing trackers for weeks as they go about their daily lives. Organizations such as crowdflow.net and OpenPaths collect voluntarily donated data of this type and might be fruitful to explore. I decided, instead, to use geolocated tweets to try and see how the movement of people is affected by the urban landscape. The image below shows an area of… -
Datavis Subgroup Word Analysis
5 Mar 2012 | 1:30 amThis is Part 4 of a set of posts related to the analysis of the Data Visualization Field on Twitter. For context or more information you may want to read those other posts first. They are: The Data Visualization Field on Twitter Data Visualization Field Subgroups Datavis Blue-Red Connections In the previous posts we have seen that there are two fairly cohesive subgroups of twitter accounts that emerged from our analysis of the original 1000 accounts. I've been calling them the 'blue' and the 'red'. They were determined by looking exclusively at the references to twitter IDs within the tweets… -
Datavis Blue-Red Connections
2 Mar 2012 | 9:30 amThe recent post on Data Visualization Field Subgroups had an interesting reaction on Twitter that I didn't expect. Many people that were placed in the 'red group' by the community detection algorithm in Gephi joked about being part of the 'team' and being happy to represent it and be grouped together with the others. Jen Lowe lightheartedly suggested a scrimmage at #eyeo between the red and blue. There was much less reaction from the 'blue group', likely because I'm embedded within the reds myself and so they likely paid more attention to my posts and the subsequent reaction on twitter. There… -
Data Visualization Field Subgroups
28 Feb 2012 | 9:30 amThere was some interesting discussion yesterday on Twitter about my post on the Data Visualization Field on Twitter. Moritz Stefaner pointed out that he didn't see a big improvement over his VIZoSPHERE and a quite similar topology. Furthermore, he noted that if you rotate my version 90 degrees counter-clockwise many of the primary nodes line up fairly closely with his. He's right, and it's something I missed noticing completely. It's not really surprising that an analysis of most of the same twitter accounts using a different connectedness metric would yield similar results. I do still feel…
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The Viral Monkey
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Map of Love Interactive Infographic This is a very informative...
2 May 2012 | 9:23 amMap of Love Interactive Infographic This is a very informative infographic on average marriages in the United States, average marriage rates and age by state, and average birth rates by state. Brought to you by: Blue Nile -
A Global Effort - How Corporations are Giving Back Lucky for us,...
11 Apr 2012 | 8:10 amA Global Effort - How Corporations are Giving Back Lucky for us, many corporations are focused on fostering positive global citizens – not just good employees. It’s impressive. -
Steal of a Deal Infographic Tanga.com alone has cultivated 945...
28 Mar 2012 | 8:14 amSteal of a Deal Infographic Tanga.com alone has cultivated 945 percent revenue growth since 2008, while Slickdeals.net reported 1.5 billion site views in 2011. Brought to you by: Tanga.com -
The Social Media Effect Infographic
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The Journey of a Tweet Infographic
10 Mar 2012 | 1:05 pmThe Journey of a Tweet Infographic
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Facebook IPO: Can Facebook Beat the Google Display Network in Online Advertising?
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Value Menu: The top 12 benefits of digital menu boards
14 May 2012 | 1:38 pmValue Menu: The Top 12 Benefits of Digital Menu Boards [Infographic]Compliments of QSRweb.com -
Save Trees: Recycle Your Moving Boxes
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Current Screen Resolution & Internet Browser Trends
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LinkedIn Bootcamp
10 May 2012 | 4:09 pmSource: mindflash
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Gentlemint, Start Your Engines: A Pinterest for Men
16 May 2012 | 8:00 amI’m sure you’ve heard your female friends obsessively talking about Pinterest, the greatest social network since sliced bread. But what about men? We need our mancave of a pinboard/social network to show off our wares. Luckily, Gentlement has accepted entered the foray. We couldn’t wait to hear more news about them, so we decided to sit down and interview them: 1 – Tell us a little bit about yourselves. The site is co-founded by myself (Glen Stansberry), a web designer. The other co-founder is Brian McKinney a designer and developer. Since starting the site,… -
Weekly Meme: Socially Awkward Popcorn
15 May 2012 | 12:30 pmI fail at making microwave popcorn, and fail even more at eating it. More often than not I end up burning it, resulting in stinking up the whole office. A mess ensues every time I open the bag because of the delicious, drippy butter that is so enticing. No work gets done because, frankly, popcorn stops everything. So lately I’ve been opting to only popping it after everyone has already left. After several weeks of this practice, I have come to realize just how weird it is. Waiting until everyone else leaves so you can gorge your face with an entire bag of microwave butter-lovers… -
Facebook IPO: Can Facebook Beat the Google Display Network in Online Advertising?
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The Top 12 Benefits of Digital Menu Boards
14 May 2012 | 2:59 pmValue Menu: The Top 12 Benefits of Digital Menu Boards [Infographic]Compliments of QSRweb.com -
The Real Cost of BYOD
10 May 2012 | 2:12 pm© 2012 Xigo
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Infoglyphs
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A New Telling: Mainstream Acceptance of Data Journalism
10 May 2012 | 2:41 pmAll media outlets have embraced data journalism and either have infographic designers on staff, in-residence or have hired infographic design... more -
Book Design: Infoglyphs Staff Vote “The Giving Tree”
4 May 2012 | 11:19 amDoes that makes us … sensitive? Hey Girl … I loved The Giving Tree too. Check my tatt. So, it... more -
Q: What Do You Call a WWII Computer?
25 Apr 2012 | 11:27 amA: A Woman After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, American women with mathematical aptitudes were hired by the US military... more -
Daytripping In The Georgian Triangle
18 Apr 2012 | 2:20 pmInfoGlyphs’ Staff Converge on Small Town: Town Never the Same Last weekend, InfoGlyph’s staff descended on basecamp in Meaford, Ontario,... more -
Spring is in the Air, Animated IG & Google Art Project
9 Apr 2012 | 10:28 amLearning about Spring Allergies through Infographics Ah, yes. It is that wonderful time of year again. Break out the hankies... more
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Slow Web Pages Suck: 25% of Users Abandon Pages that take Longer than 4 seconds to Load [Infographic]
26 Apr 2012 | 11:56 am25% of users abandon pages that take longer than 4 seconds to load. It’s simple: slow web pages s*ck! Make sure you pages are optimized to load as quickly as possible, and take a look at this cool infographic to learn more amazing facts about slow loading web pages. Original Source Slow Web Pages Suck: 25% of Users Abandon Pages that take Longer than 4 seconds to Load [Infographic] is a post from: MBA Programs 411Slow Web Pages Suck: 25% of Users Abandon Pages that take Longer than 4 seconds to Load [Infographic] is a post from: MBA Programs 411 -
Social Media in the College Classroom [Infographic]
22 Apr 2012 | 9:48 pmColleges are leveraging social media both in and out of the classroom. Learn more with this cool infographic. Original Source Social Media in the College Classroom [Infographic] is a post from: MBA Programs 411Social Media in the College Classroom [Infographic] is a post from: MBA Programs 411 -
Education’s Effect on Income [Infographic]
22 Apr 2012 | 9:46 pmAlthough education is not a guarantee of success, there is a correlation between higher education and higher income. Learn more in this awesome infographic. Education’s Effect on Income [Infographic] is a post from: MBA Programs 411Education’s Effect on Income [Infographic] is a post from: MBA Programs 411 -
The State of Digital Education [Infographic]
4 Apr 2012 | 11:46 amLearn all about the state of digital education in this highly informative infographic. Original Source The State of Digital Education [Infographic] is a post from: MBA Programs 411The State of Digital Education [Infographic] is a post from: MBA Programs 411 -
The History of Online Education [Infographic]
4 Apr 2012 | 11:43 amLearn about the history of online education with this cool infographic. Original Source The History of Online Education [Infographic] is a post from: MBA Programs 411The History of Online Education [Infographic] is a post from: MBA Programs 411
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Infographic: The Evolution of Bridal Lingerie
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Infographic: Ebooks Explosion
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Birthstones By Month Infographic
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TOP 10 LOTTO AND BINGO WINNERS OF ALL TIME
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‘Breaking The Law: 15 Ridiculous Laws from Around the World’
12 May 2012 | 6:26 pmVia:- Prism Online Casino
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Ferry Fun
15 May 2012 | 8:08 pmStena Line do a little research and they come up with their favourite ferry fun reasons for you to choose a Car–cation for your next trip! Stena Line also provided a few interesting facts about our great destinations; Ireland, Britain and Holland! Who would have thought that it used to be illegal for Scotsmen to wear kilts?! Stena Line Ferries EMBED THE IMAGE ABOVE ON YOUR SITE Stena Line Ferries & Only Infographic -
Apponomics: The World of Mobile Apps
15 May 2012 | 3:26 pmDot Com Infoway (DCI) expert analysts share worthwhile information regarding the mobile app industry and marketing trends of apps in the infographic. According to the infographic’s statistics, there are 585,000 apps on the Apple store, 450,000 apps on the Android market and 82,234 apps available at present on Microsoft’s store. An interesting fact is that more than 300,000 mobile apps have been developed in the last three years. EMBED THE IMAGE ABOVE ON YOUR SITE Via: Only Infographic -
Ecstasy Effects and History “Rolling Around Your Brain”
14 May 2012 | 6:47 pmMDMA is an amphetamine derivate. This synthetic chemical can be extracted from an essential oil of the sassafrass tree. Dirty “Ecstasy” pills have been known to contain caffeine, ephedrine, stimulans, MDA, MDEA, DXM, heroin, cocain, and often don’t contain any MDMA. Via Recovery ConnectionView More Addiction Related Infographics EMBED THE IMAGE ABOVE ON YOUR SITE Infographic Via Recovery ConnectionView More Addiction Related Infographics -
Top 10 Lotto and Bingo Winners of All Time
14 May 2012 | 3:48 pmIf you have ever won a bingo jackpot or bought a winning lotto ticket, you are probably familiar with the rush and excitement of winning. Well, imagine how would you feel if one day you discover you’re the lucky winner of a $656 million jackpot. What would you do if you become filthy rich all of a sudden? Infographic: Top 10 Lotto & Bingo Winners of all time created by 123 Bingo Online EMBED THE IMAGE ABOVE ON YOUR SITE Infographic: Top 10 Lotto & Bingo Winners of all time created by 123 Bingo Online -
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
10 May 2012 | 7:48 pmInfographic called “Modern Warfare 3: Achievement Unlocked” looks at the incredible launch and sales figures of the game, along with in-game strategies, game modes, etc. Infographic by BroadbandChoices EMBED THE IMAGE ABOVE ON YOUR SITE Infographic by BroadbandChoices


