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Craig Robinson has created a set of amazing baseball infographics over at Flip Flop Fly Ball. One of my favorites is “Home Team Dugouts” (below) which shows the side that MLB teams use as their home dugout. Before seeing this graphic, I thought the home dugout was nearly always on the on the first baseline… [...]
Jared Spool (UIE) is always fun to listen to, and his latest work of art, “Revealing Design Treasures from the Amazon” is now on Slideshare. In the presentation, Spool introduces Amazon.com as a unique place on the Internet, where strange things happen, like the reviews for Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz. Some [...]
This is a delightful must-read fictional short story that is available for free online or $0.80 on the Kindle. It’s about a peculiar book store, Google book scanning, information visualization, and immortality. The author is Current TV’s Robin Sloan.
Hopefully the Kindle platform and/or other quick online publishing solutions will encourage more short stories like this [...]
Boston has a very strong usability community, which every year turns out in great numbers to their own annual “Mini-UPA” conference in the spring. It’s called Usability & User Experience and it actually has grown to compete with the national UPA conference.
A couple of my former peers at Bentley (@jledwell and @kaniasty) created a great [...]
Jeffrey Veen (Small Batch, Inc.) gave a great talk on data visualization at O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco recently (March 31-April 3, 2009). He provides a history of usage of visualizations, including the first subway map (the tube map) and John Snow’s map that is credited with ending the 1854 cholera outbreak in [...]
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