The new generation of Infographics are making it a lot easier to understand and digest data. With fancy and sometimes animated images, readers can gain a whole new appreciation of information without having to read an encyclopedia. In a new book edited by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Gareth Cook and an introduction written by polymath … Continue reading
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top animated infographics: part two
Check out the second half of our top ten animated infographics list! 6. Herman Miller – This is You: Nice infographic explaining why Herman Miller is a great place to work. 7. What is HubStop? Hubstop offers an All-In-One Marketing software system to help companies get the word out in today’s world. 8. One Trillion … Continue reading
top animated infographics: part one
Given the popularity of infographics these days, we thought it might be fun to dig up some that are a little different—animated infographics. Here’s a list we felt were particularly informative and entertaining. (Part one includes the top five, part two includes six through ten.) 1. The World is Obsessed with Facebook by Alex Trimpe: An … Continue reading
twitter: mind-blowing metadata
When you think about the amount of metadata involved in a social media company like Twitter, the information is indeed mind-blowing. According to Fast Company (www.fastcompany.com,) Twitter’s datastream or “firehose” is full of metadata that discloses personal, geographic, and technological information on Twitter’s tens of millions of users. Gnip, one of the best known resellers of … Continue reading