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Creating a successful website is all about process. A good design process helps you get ideas into a format that can help you make logical design decisions.
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Graphs are a visual treat, as they can present complex information in a quick and easy manner. Mostly graphs are used to reveal a trend, compare statistics or they can be even used to establish relationship between two different variables.
There are several types of graphs and each graph has different display properties to represent the data. Based on the information, choose a graph that depicts data in an effective way. This infographic shares some interesting information about different graph types.
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It's been an eventful year for cartography. Development and disaster continue to mold the physical world, but for mapmakers, keeping up with geographic changes is busy work -- a tweaked direction here, a freeway exit there. It's very important busy work, as we learned this September when Apple reminded us not to take a good map for granted. The intersection of geography and data, though, is just beginning to fill out. Together with interactive functions like sliders, timelines, and embedded information, the best new maps resemble Rand McNally's about as much as movies look like photographs. Creating an accurate representation of geography and infrastructure is only the tip of the iceberg. What happens when you integrate statistics about rising seas, gang affiliations, metaphors and beer? A whole new understanding of the way the world works. And some pretty sweet maps. Without further ado, the top favorite maps of the year...
(visit the article link for the maps and associated links)
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Some of the year’s best book covers, chosen by people in and around the world of graphic design.
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Cosmo. Photo: Sandra Garcia/Wired The 15-year-old hacker known as Cosmo the God was behind the takeover of a Westboro Baptist Church member's Twitter f
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The National Rifle Association (NRA) deactivated their Facebook page on Saturday, December 15, just one day after the Newtown school shooting. Last week, the NRA posted on their page to boast their 1.7 millionth “like” on Facebook.
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Slowly but surely, video is taking over as the preferred medium for brands looking for a better way to connect with their audience. Not only does it offer a
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The Red Cross gave people it had helped video cameras to record their stories and is using the results in its year-end fund-raising campaign.
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Facebook has Sponsored Stories. Twitter has Promoted Tweets. Buzzfeed has Promoted Posts.
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Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Pinterest are all great social networks. Many folks spend hours of their time on these sites. Over the past few years, people
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Though it's coming to a close, 2012 has certainly been an eventful year, with everything from elections and the Olympics, to scientific breakthroughs and major weather events making headlines. To review some of these events and happenings in a visual format, here are twenty of the best static infographics from the past year...
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Here’s a New Year’s resolution that’s a lot easier than losing 10 pounds--and with the tough marketplace we face in 2013, it will make your business more competitive.Are you a team manager or a sales director responsible for delivering weekly...
Excerpted from this interesting article by Brian Solis: "While the amount of personal and ambient information churned out by SoLoMo is often inundating or even perplexing, it is this “big” data that will help businesses evolve and adapt in a new era of connected consumerism. More importantly, the study and understanding of relevant big data will shift organizations from simply reacting to trends to predicting the next disruption and adapting ahead of competition—thus, marking the shift from rigid to adaptive business models.
Without interpretation, insight and the ability to put knowledge to work, any investment in technology and resources is premature. But, by investing in human capital to make sense of would be ominous data, organizations can modernize the role of business intelligence to introduce a human touch.
The reality is though that how organizations connected with customers yesterday is not how customers will be served tomorrow. Meaning, the entire infrastructure in how we market, sell, help, and create now requires companies to not only study data and behavior but also change how it thinks about customers.
I refer to the confluence of data and interpretation as the human algorithm—the ability to humanize technology and data to put a face, personality, and voice to the need and chance for change. Data tells a story, it just needs help finding its rhythm and rhyme.
The human algorithm is part understanding and part communication. The ability to communicate and apply insights internally and externally is the key to unlocking opportunities to earn relevance. Beyond research, beyond intelligence, the human algorithm is a function of extracting insights with intention, humanizing trends ad possibilities and working with strategists to improve and innovate everything from processes to products to overall experiences.
The idea of the human algorithm is to serve as the human counterpart to the abundance of new social intelligence and listening platforms hitting the market every day. Someone has to be on the other side of data to interpret it beyond routine..."
Read full original article here: http://www.briansolis.com/2012/12/the-human-algorithm-redefining-the-value-of-data/
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Newspaper print ad sales have declined more than $20 billion in six years. In that time, digital ads growth has erased only 2% of the losses.
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Gifted writers such as Kurt Vonnegut and Anton Chekhov worked according to certain tenets of the craft. Here are some favorites.
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Google's great little social network got even better Friday. Google+ gained over twenty new features across mobile and web platforms, and the iPhone app was redesigned as well. Maybe more people will use it now.
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The National Rifle Association (NRA) deactivated their Facebook page on Saturday, December 15, just one day after the Newtown school shooting. Last week, the NRA posted on their page to boast their 1.7 millionth “like” on Facebook.
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NASA will host a two-day event for 60 of its social media followers on Monday, Jan. 28, and Tuesday, Jan.
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Guest post written by Ryan Holmes Ryan Holmes is CEO of HootSuite, a social media management system with 5 million users.
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This stunning presentation design guide will help rouse your audience to the edge of their seats. Check out these 10 slide design tips and take your
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Don't surrender the holiday shopping seasons to the big box retailers. Here are six ways to deploy your small-business marketing dollars and win.
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Type is all around us. It is a key component in the design process. The font you choose affects the aesthetic of your design, and one bad font can ruin everything. (Are you listening, fans of Comic Sans?
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Social Media - BusinessNext Social conducted a study of CMOs in the Fortune 100 to see which of them were most socially active in 2012. Surprisingly, only one in five Fortune 100 top-level ...
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