The end of The New Normal – McKinsey
I just love this article from McKinsey. It ends like this: “Companies seeking high rates of income and consumption growth will increasingly look to Asia. The fundamental drivers of Asian growth—productivity gains, technology adoption, and cultural and institutional changes—did not halt as a result of the 1997 Asian financial crisis. And Asian economies—though they have...
Honorable mentions in Yahoo mashup contest
I sent an idea I had for a while to a contest at Yahoo for their BOSS mashup in october 2008. And I got honorable mentions! Yay. It was a really early sketch but I took it away immediately after the contest. It came out pretty nice given the time. Yet another spare-time project.
Interesting Google APIs
Base Data http://code.google.com/intl/sv-SE/apis/base/ Maps http://code.google.com/intl/sv-SE/apis/maps/ Mapplets http://code.google.com/intl/sv-SE/apis/maps/documentation/mapplets/ Financial http://code.google.com/intl/sv-SE/apis/finance/ Financial gadgets http://code.google.com/intl/sv-SE/apis/finance/docs/finance-gadgets.html Charts http://code.google.com/intl/sv-SE/apis/chart/types.html Visualisation http://code.google.com/intl/sv-SE/apis/visualization/
Being inside the structure
To be in the middle of thousands of actions from different information sources simultaneously could be wanted. Like being next to a cell while it divides. It gives some information you couldn’t figure out beforehand… Being inside a nova while it expands or collides with a galaxy. Could observe things not observable… Like being witness...
Ben Fry on Computational Information Design
I just feel the need to repeat this. It encourages. “One significant difficulty with such problems is knowing, given a set of data, how to glean meaningful information from it. To most, the process is entirely opaque. Fields such as statistics, data mining, graphic design, and information visualization each offer components of the solution, but...
Sometimes it has to take time to understand
Original post January 2009 When you start to learn a new language – like Spanish, you don’t expect to understand a spanish news cast completely after the first class. Then why do we have this enormous demand on gui and visualisation that is innovative to be completely and immidiately understood? Some things will take time...
Superpoint library
Very cool library for processing. http://www.hardcorepawn.com/SuperPoint/
