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  Hoosgot… the answer?

  11.09.09 | Permalink | Comments

  Dave Sifry, blogger and photographer has a nifty new twitter/blog crawl mashup called Hoosgot (Who’s Got?).
  Simply place a request with Hoosgot (with the keyword… ‘hoosgot’ followed by the actual words) and use the power of what has been called the lazyweb 2.0. In a few moment you’ll get the answer.
  Just put “hoosgot” in a blog [...]

• information, tools

  Wolfram Alpha’s humor

  09.13.09 | Permalink | Comments

  Not only does Wolfram Alpha give us all the data one may expect (Life expectancy, number of car accidents, unemployment, etc.), but it also has the sense of humor to answer such tricky questions like:
  How many roads must a man walk down?

• information

  The world of 100

  04.29.09 | Permalink | Comments

  Thanks to Dolors Reig (El Caparazón) I discovered this: If the world were a village of 100 people…

  Beautiful information design from Toby Ng Design.

• information

  Animated maps with data mined from the Web

  03.12.09 | Permalink | Comments

  Image via Wikipedia

  I found a couple of fascinating examples of the use of data repositories over the Web. Both deal with Walmart’s spread all over he US, since its opening.
  The first example uses freebase as the data provider. Freebase is a “social database of things you know and love” which collects data-provided by users- on [...]

• information, tools

  Micro-charts & infographing

  10.19.08 | Permalink | Comments

  More on Excel in-cell graphing: Juice Analytics
  Juice Analytics plays with the concept of in-cell graphs for Excel. It is really a fascinating, and beautiful effect, as well as quite informative. To do this…  simply put a formula like “=REPT(“|”, 25)” in one cell, and you have 25 vertical bars. They say that, when formatted in [...]

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