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Great idea and good to see Calais grow from black-ops internal project to an open-API service.

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The Question of Aesthetics in Info Viz

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Cathching up on some blog-reading I stumbled across this link. The post, Information Visualization Manifesto, is more “10-tips” than Manifesto, but still a valuable read nonetheless. Though I do have one (sort of major) qualm. Manuel Lima writes: The power of Narrative Human beings love stories and storytelling is one of the most successful and [...]

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IdN: We [heart] Infographics

(thnx forz for pointing this out) A lot of designers regard the practice of infographics as dull and boring — but this is almost certainly because they’ve never tried it. The 10 we spoke to, and whose work we’ve used to illustrate this feature, love what they do and believe it offers as big a [...]

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Slate Looks at Data Visualization

This art form is making inroads at universities and on the Web, and it has gained currency in tech and design circles. It has inspired some press and a handful of shows, and has featured in minor ways in museum exhibitions, in particular the Museum of Modern Art’s “Design and the Elastic Mind” show earlier [...]

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NYT Info Viz of Global Wealth

(via the NYT) The increased activity comes as other kinds of acquirers have been sidelined by the credit crisis. These funds are state-sponsored investment vehicles and have combined assets of $2 trillion. With that much dry powder, sovereign funds dwarf the formerly booming private equity industry and in some cases, compete directly with it. The [...]

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