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The death of Massimo Vignelli, one of the greatest 20th century designers, undoubtedly marked this past week – which, we might add, wasn’t as prolific in news as the latest ones. At the age of 83, Mr....
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How To Deal With Data
This infographic outlines just how much data is out there for the taking. Are you using your data wisely? Infographic Directory…
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The Biggest Hadoop and Big Data Influencers on Social Media
If there’s one thing that’s effecting businesses all over the world in a major way, it’s the growing familiarity with big data. With the rise of big data, more and more companies are also gaining an...
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William Hoffman: Navigating the ‘Fog of Data Ignorance’
Effective transparency is not a one-way mirror that reduces individuals to being spectators on how their data is used. Instead, meaningful transparency requires both inbound and outbound information...
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Shannon Vallor: Big Data, Democracy And The Path Not Taken
Golbeck succumbs to a dangerous, self-fulfilling fatalism, one all too common among other well-meaning proponents of her alternative solution — namely, to simply arm individual users with more digital...
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After a long wait and lots of expectations, Tableau for Mac is here! The 8.2 version was released this week, and with several new features that have been, overall, praised and well-received by users....
View ArticleJeremy Harris Lipschultz: Live Social Media TV Offers Behavioral Data
TV must use mobile app technology in this way for a variety of programming — from presidential debates to sports and awards show — for it to find a happy ending in the fragmented social media world...
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After skipping last week’s Data Viz News, due to a scheduled website maintenance, we bring you another fully-packed edition with dozens of fresh links about data visualization, data journalism,...
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Will Facebook Backlash Kill Scientists’ Data Dream?
The difference between Facebook users and lab rats? Lab rats can see who’s conducting the experiment. Facebook’s 2012 experiment on 689,003 unsuspecting users has stoked controversy for breaking...
View ArticleHow to Use Google Analytics Audience Data to Improve Your Marketing
Do you need to learn more about the Audience reports in Google Analytics? Do you want to know more about your website visitors? Understanding the demographics, behaviors and interests of your website...
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Why Marketers Love Big Data & Hadoop
In the past advertising and marketing was pretty straight forward. Girls like pink and boys like blue. Women belonged in an apron and men in the garage. Furthermore, the power was in the hands of...
View ArticleJane Sarasohn-Kahn: Big Data and Dark Data for Health
There’s a growing trend in health care for providers and payors to look beyond traditional medical claims at the data that captures what we’re doing i… Read more: Healthy Living Health News,...
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Twitter Is Mostly a White Male Company, Diversity Data Reveals
It took a few weeks, but Twitter has finally released diversity data on its company, joining the likes of LinkedIn, Facebook and Google. The results? Twitter’s roughly 3,000 employees are...
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Recent Data Breaches
Online retailers and data breaches seem to go hand in hand. Check out this infographic for more about recent data breaches and what we’ve learned from them. Infographic Directory…
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Welcome to another edition of Data Viz News, our regular bulletin of content published around the web. And this is a particularly intense edition, since we’re covering a period of two weeks, after our...
View ArticleHow to Use Twitter Analytics to Find Important Data
Do you use Twitter’s built-in analytics tool? Are you looking for new ways to measure success on Twitter? Twitter’s Analytics tool is the social network’s best-kept secret and gives you access to data...
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Welcome to another issue of Data Viz News, and let’s move on right to the top story of the week: Reports confirm that there was no new data journalism website being launched in thew last few days. Yes,...
View ArticleTimex Ironman smartwatch has its own data connection, doesn’t need your phone
Timex has announced a smartwatch which doesn’t need to be tethered to your phone in order to use a data connection. Instead it has its own, provided by AT&T, and is designed for running fanatics....
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Ukraine, Gaza, Western Africa. This week, the news surrounding the tragic events unfolding in these regions have overshadowed everything else – or at least, it should have. In terms of data...
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The Evolution of Data Storage
Data storage has become important for businesses and personal use. Now we can carry hundreds of gigabytes of data just in just one drive. And then there is cloud storage which offers the flexibility to...
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