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Visualisations (or visualizations if you're American or absolutely love your Zs) transform whole sets of arbitrary data into beautiful, visual learning tools. From basic graphs and charts to complex animations, visualisations take an infographic-like approach to helping us understand the world around us. Today's Stuff to Watch features nothing but the most interesting visualisations I could find.
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Ever since I was a little kid, I've adored optical illusions. Believe it or not, but 1993 found me browsing my parents' hefty Escher art book, looking for more and more drawings I couldn't quite figure out. This fascination continued through the famous Autostereogram era, when I learned to see those cool 3D images in seconds, becoming a source of jealousy to all my cross-eyed friends.
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Pearltrees is a more natural way to process all we save and share on the web. At its simplest, it is a free web curation tool but with a completely visual interface (like a mindmap) that gives you a birds-eye view of all your interests. It is also a collaborative community that allows you to discover new stuff related to your interests.
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Infographics have become an incredibly popular way to display bite-sized bits of information in easy to consume forms of charts, graphics and more. It usually takes quite a bit of designer know-how, patience and some pretty pricey software to get the job done, but thankfully there are quite a few services that aim to make that process a little easier. We've already covered Ease.ly and Visual.ly. Now we're adding Infogr.am to the mix.
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The history of this visual science (or art) and tells us that infographics is by no means an invention of the digital culture. The only difference between then and now is the amount of information we are swamped with. Infographics gives us a tool to cut through the noise and into the meat. Patterns, trends, and relationships become a bit more understandable.
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With over 215,000 plays starting since 2008, I've always been a firm believer in Last.fm. If you're into getting social on the Internet, it's so much easier to link a friend to your Last.fm profile versus going on and on about your musical preferences. Last.fm allows your tastes to be an open book to anyone who might be curious, and I like that. Over the past few years, Last.fm has solidified itself as the best music scrobbling platform online.
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If you're a student or someone who takes notes a regular basis, you may be interested in a fun and even artistic movement called Sketchnoting. Sketchnoting is like notetaking, but it includes visual notes as well as words. It's a way of conceptualizing ideas, information, and other data on paper (or a digital tablet) beyond the traditional text medium of outlining. Sketchnoting, or visual notetaking, is for clustering information and capturing big ideas.
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Infographics are perfect means to convey information and data analysis on the web, though it does take significant planning and powerful graphic design skills to create a compelling visual. But for those of us who lack those skills or even an advanced design software, a new site called easel.ly, might be a very useful way to get your feet wet with infographic design
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It seems like every time I get that shiny new desktop or laptop, within a month's time I'm beginning to wonder where all of that disk space has gone. I need to see my disk from the top down and figure out which file or folder is being the hog. The tool I'm going to introduce to you today - DiskSavvy, will do just that.
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About a month ago, someone contacted me about whether I wanted to publish one of their infographics on my site. Before then, I had never really had much of an interest in such visualizations of data. For those of you that are regular readers, you know we love infographics here at MUO. I mean, come on, who wouldn't love the Wrath of the Angry Birds infographic that Mark posted?
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Pinterest is an online pinboard which allows you to share images by ‘pining’ them to your profile. I am sure you will while away a few hours playing around creating pretty image boards or pinboards. I did too, but then I also realized that Pinterest can also be used like a vision board for personal development and productivity. Here are a few ideas.
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Whether you're putting together a report for work, or you just want to represent information on your blog in a graphical way, Google Fusion Tables can help. Google Fusion is actually a feature embedded into Google Docs, that lets you transform raw information that's stored in a tabular or spreadsheet format into a more visually appealing way.
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Are you a fellow space explorer? If you had the opportunity to experience what's it's like to be an astronaut, or even one of the many technical support crew that support space exploration, would you jump for it? The amazing thing about NASA, besides all of the mind-bending missions into outer space, is just how hard the space agency works to educate the general public about space.
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Creative jobseekers are always searching for new ways to distinguish themselves to potential employers. One of the quickest ways to do this is to make your résumé stand out from the crowd. Once you've got their attention, they'll hopefully notice all those great skills you have. In the meantime, you've got to turn your résumé into something which looks really interesting. And who's got the time for that?
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You need your browsing history to go back to an important website and retrieve some information. Sometimes, your browsing history also tells you a lot about the quantity and quality of time you spend on the internet. Try out the following Chrome extensions that give you a visual picture of your browsing habits via your browser’s history.
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