http://rasga.co.uk Yeap, data and stuff Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:30:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://rasga.co.uk/2010/10/10/spotted-august-26th-october-10th/ http://rasga.co.uk/2010/10/10/spotted-august-26th-october-10th/#comments Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:08:47 +0000 Neil H http://rasga.co.uk/?p=359 Spotted: August 26th – October 10th:

• 21 Ruby Tricks You Should Be Using In Your Own Code – Ruby tips and tricks
• London, Paris, Seville, Dublin, Washington DC & Rome bike hire docking station maps | Charlotte Gilhooly – Comparing the density of bike hire stations over London, Paris, Seville, Dublin and Washington DC.
• PeteSearch: Geodict – an open-source tool for extracting locations from text –
• Headers & Footers in LaTeX – How to define headers within a LaTeX document by using Fancyhdr
• Do you strip or crunch? A lazy marketer’s guide to social media campaigns – theplan – A deconstruction of a pretend social media campaign, to show why Polo are taking the wrong tact witht their current campaign.

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• @anywhere prototypes from the Guardian – Some interesting prototypes of the @anywhere system, as publically first revealed at SXSW, by the Guardian. Native twitter features, like hovercards, in third party sites. interesting
• 3D Interfaces – Got a set of data, with complex linked relationships. A demo of a strategy to deal with the connections when displayed in a 3D environment
• JESS3 Blog: SXSW Vicarious.ly Visualization – Amazing look at patterns and trends seen when running through location enabled data from SXSW.
• Chart Chooser by Juice Analytics: Download Tufte-compliance Excel and PowerPoint charts – Want to create a graph? Not got a copy of Tableau. Take a look at some of the Excel templates, that are presented in a 'nice way'
• Graphical perception – learn the fundamentals first | FlowingData – When it comes to visualization, especially on the Web, you have to be open-minded, and you should be willing to try new things. There’s no advancing otherwise. However, before you dive into the advanced stuff – like just about everything in your life – you have to learn the fundamentals before you know when you can break the rules.

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• Visualisations Applications – A huge resource of services, links and other related visualisations tools.
• Redesigning the Boarding Pass – Journal – Boarding Pass / Fail – Showing how a boarding pass could be redesigned, to allow for clearer understanding and conveying of the important information.
• Crayon | Luxirare – An interesting mix of food and design.
• Andy Huntington Interaction & Sound » Datadecs – For Christmas 2009 the Really Interesting Group wanted to create a a gift comprising a series of 4 unique decorations based on each recipient’s use of the Flickr, Dopplr, Last.fm and Twitter. Having used a couple of the software APIs they were thinking about using (flickr and dopplr) and with experience of rapid prototyping we worked together to turn the data into something physical.
• 9 Ways to Visualize Proportions – A Guide | FlowingData – A nice post about size, and proportions in graphics.

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