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Entries from November 2006

Coding Horror: This Is What Happens When You Let Developers Create UI

November 30th, 2006 · No Comments

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QlikView

November 29th, 2006 · No Comments

QlikView is an amazing product. I say this as an end user and implementor for the past 5 years.

A versatile data warehouse with multi-billion-row capacity and incredible speed.
A BI front end for report generation, interactive analysis, dashboard design.
Complemented by a platform for distributing data securely to customers, suppliers, contractors, etc.
End-user applications are intuitive and have [...]

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Authenticity

November 28th, 2006 · No Comments

I saw this video last week and I have been wondering what makes it so powerful. Authenticity. Just the process, done as it has been done for a long time by the men in the video. No sound track. No deep sonorous voiceover. It is like a video of a hurricane–documenting what is independent of [...]

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The Speed Of Social News Sites

November 24th, 2006 · No Comments

Data visualization tools such as Swarm are crucial to sifting through the hordes of detritus on Digg. Because of these tools, Digg was able to harness the collective intelligence of its users and serve up speedy results that, in this case, bested Google’s specialized algorithm.

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Is There A Better Way To View Large Images Or GIS Datasets?

November 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

Use the Google Maps interface with your own images through Maplib.net. Via O’Reilly Radar.

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What Are The Top Cameras Used On Flickr?

November 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

Flickr has assembled stats on the cameras used over time. Take a look at the stats page for Canon cameras. And some of the photos from the number one camera. Nice shot. Via Boing Boing.

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Microsoft Says SQL Server Will Support 270TB Data Warehouse

November 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

Microsoft said it is designing a 270TB multinode data warehouse for a foreign government that it declined to identify. The software vendor is also working on a 162TB single-node installation for its own marketing department.

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World Maps Distorted To Show Proportional Contributions

November 21st, 2006 · No Comments

Maps found here. Via information aesthetics.

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Using Sound To Aid In Detecting Changes In Complex Systems

November 20th, 2006 · No Comments

This recent Slashdot article resurrected ideas about the mind’s ability to detect change in familiar systems, even very complicated ones. Slashdot links to an IBM developerWorks article.
If you want to create a soundscape from a network, there is the Peep toolkit. In their examples the background network is a babbling brook and key actions are [...]

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FortiusOne Launches Project To Collect Free GIS Datasets

November 18th, 2006 · No Comments

Press release from FortiusOne masquerading as an article on InformationWeek. Their product in action.

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