This week on O'Reilly: Tom Steinberg from mySociety offered practical advice for building useful and long lasting open data products, we examined the intersection of big data and finance, and we learned why neglected site search engines deserve way more attention. Read more.
Top Stories: August 29-September 2, 2011
Open data products with purpose, why finance should care about big data, and the untapped value of site search.
Designing Data Visualizations
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There is an increasing abundance of tools, languages, and frameworks for data visualization. But success is built upon having a good design to implement, and that requires a linear process of encoding information for visual transmission and subsequent decoding by wetware (the reader's brain). Join us as we introduce you to this process, including some basic concepts and best practices, so that your message may be transmitted without interference. Register for the webcast now.
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Every Book is a Startup
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Android Honeycomb Fragments: Creating Large-Screen UIs for Android Devices
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How to create sustainable open data projects with purpose
Tom Steinberg on making a website vs making a difference.
Tom Steinberg, head of the UK's civic-hacking non-profit mySociety, uses the launch of the new FixMyTransport to reflect on how organizations can help their open data efforts achieve sustainability. Read more.
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