tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66215466935898228102012-02-16T04:14:13.566-08:00futurespectivesusing data and analytics to understand the world around us. as it was, is and could be.Futurespectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183521008346785837noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621546693589822810.post-11515833356797799602010-10-08T13:22:00.000-07:002010-10-08T13:22:28.384-07:00Journalism in the age of data<iframe frameborder="0" height="225" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/14777910" width="400"></iframe><br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/14777910">Journalism in the Age of Data</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/geoffmcghee">Geoff McGhee</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br /><br />This video summarises the reason why I find this field so exciting. <br /><br />For links to people mentioned in the video see <a href="http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/">the original video on the stanford website</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6621546693589822810-1151583335679779960?l=futurespectives.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Futurespectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183521008346785837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621546693589822810.post-55233997951885928062010-10-04T09:00:00.000-07:002010-10-04T09:00:06.671-07:00The beauty of data visualisation | David McCandless<object height="326" width="446"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"></param><param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/DavidMcCandless_2010G-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/DavidMcCandless-2010G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=937&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization;year=2010;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=design_like_you_give_a_damn;theme=a_taste_of_tedglobal_2010;theme=presentation_innovation;theme=the_creative_spark;event=TEDGlobal+2010;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;" /><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgColor="#ffffff" width="446" height="326" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/DavidMcCandless_2010G-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/DavidMcCandless-2010G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=937&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization;year=2010;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=design_like_you_give_a_damn;theme=a_taste_of_tedglobal_2010;theme=presentation_innovation;theme=the_creative_spark;event=TEDGlobal+2010;"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6621546693589822810-5523399795188592806?l=futurespectives.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Futurespectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183521008346785837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6621546693589822810.post-6466990667592950722009-12-26T03:19:00.001-08:002009-12-26T14:23:14.376-08:00TED India | Hans Rosling's Talk on the rise of AsiaI've been a big fan of Hans Rosling who shows us how statistical information can be presented as an exciting story. His latest talk at <a href="http://conferences.ted.com/TEDIndia/">TED India</a> is about the rise of China and India to being superpower. He elegantly uses data from the past and models his prediction using <a href="http://www.gapminder.org/">Gapminder</a> which is an excellent resource for fact based analysis of the geopolitical landscape.<br /><br /><object width="446" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"> <param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/HansRosling_2009I-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/HansRosling_2009I.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=695&introDuration=16500&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=2000&adKeys=talk=hans_rosling_asia_s_rise_how_and_when;year=2009;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=numbers_at_play;theme=a_taste_of_tedindia;theme=bold_predictions_stern_warnings;event=TEDIndia+2009;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;"><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="446" height="326" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/HansRosling_2009I-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/HansRosling_2009I.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=695&introDuration=16500&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=2000&adKeys=talk=hans_rosling_asia_s_rise_how_and_when;year=2009;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=numbers_at_play;theme=a_taste_of_tedindia;theme=bold_predictions_stern_warnings;event=TEDIndia+2009;"></embed></object><div><br /></div><div>If you're as impressed as I was, then there's much more where this comes from. You can find all the Gapminder videos <a href="http://www.gapminder.org/videos/">here</a>. In particular, there's something different in his <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPeYJyAyZ30">talk at Google</a>, where he spots trends that look like "hockey sticks". [Imagine a horizontal hockey stick with a sudden spike in a trend which looks something like this -> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">______/ </span></span></b> ] He searches for hockey sticks in trends for OIL, HIV, CO2 & USD. Four topics, four acronyms. </div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6621546693589822810-646699066759295072?l=futurespectives.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Futurespectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10183521008346785837noreply@blogger.com1