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mostly about data

Browsing Posts published in April, 2007

From the Björk shows comes the reactable. The demo is wonderful. Via Boing Boing.

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What and outstanding site! Found on Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools blog.

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The team at Juice Analytics asked its readers for the “Lingua Analytica” and here is the evolving dictionary. Some of my favorites are abracadata, frankensheet and sociomath.
My additions:

  • Bitpicking (v): Carefully choosing data to create the most favorable impression.
  • Sheetcake (n): A spreadsheet with excessive formatting and color.
  • Spreadache (n): Exceeding the Excel 65,000-row limit.

The Inner Life of the Cell is a mind-expanding animation. Watch the incessant, precise, complex and beautiful activity inside a single white blood cell. Why can’t more educational materials be like this? Here’s a neat writeup about it in Wired. Created by John Liebler. Here’s another version with music instead of narration.

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