Category: Information visualization
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An Overview of Start-up Marketing—Infographic
As I continue to build my start-up I have had great conversations with other entrepreneurs about what a start-up needs to market themselves. One lifelong entrepreneur told me he wished he could draw the process. This graphic is my view of what we need to create and manage as we build our businesses. Marketing for…
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Cult of Done Manifesto infographic
This infographic was designed based off of the Cult of Done Manifesto by Bre Pettis.
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Google’s Art Copy Code—that’s what I’m talking about.
Google has been very involved with the intersection of the three disciplines of creative, content and programming, better named Art, Copy & Code. This video encapsulates a vision for this intersection. I share a passion for projects and ideas that work in this intersection. I believe that marketers don’t yet see the opportunities for…
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On starting anew
I’ve been looking for creative truths, principles which make the creative process, design thinking and visualization effective. Creative truths often overlap with other philosophical principals for good business, spirituality, sports, gardening or relationships. I like that these high level thoughts and ideas can be applied directly to doing better work, creating valuable stuff and…
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Wealth Inequality in America
Having spent the last 6 weeks in Alberto Cairo’s MOOC, Introduction to Infographics, I am obsessed now with data visualizations and infographics that really tell a great story and use data in effective ways. It is much harder than it looks. Today’s favorite is the data visualization of the Wealth Inequality in America. Unfortunately, even…
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MOOC
This week I am one of 3,000+ enrollees in Alberto Cairo’s MOOC: Introduction to infographics and data. A MOOC, a massive open on-line course, is new variation on online learning—a global opening up of learning and increasing the reach of professors, institutions and learning. Classes may have thousands of participants who interact and learn together. I…
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Learning to code
I am teaching myself to code. Like all the traditional languages I have tried to learn, I do this in fits and starts, which is the worst way to learn a language. Hence I am not fluent in Latin, Italian, French or Spanish. However, I like to be online and I am the perfect candidate…
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The importance of purple
The use of color to convey meaning in design and communication is no where more apparent than in the many maps generated for the 2012 U.S. election. American imaginations are full of red states and blue states and the huge ideological associations that go along with those colors. Designers, whether working for one party or…
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How to decide?
What’s the decision tree for making decisions? What’s the best way to know what to do and how to act? Who is a decision maker? Here’s my first attempt at my best practices for making good decisions, no matter what the topic. This decision maker outlines my process as well as what I think are…