Category Archives: Life

Chilean Earthquake Tsunami Travel Time

By C.G. | Published: February 27, 2010

Speaking of cool visualizations, Zero Hedge brings us another one from the National Weather Service: the Chliean Earthquake Tsunami travel time. Very cool, indeed if we forget the horrible destruction the earthquake and potential tsunami caused. Chilean Earthquake Tsunami Travel Time Estimates | zero hedge.

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Cool Data Visualizations

By C.G. | Published: February 21, 2010

From Google Buzz, founder & CEO of Seesmic, Loic Le Meur, shared a recent Harvard Business Review article discussing the visualization of Twitter’s stream. Its a fascinating read just for the inferences one can get from the data. The article uses different trend analysis projects like Twitter Spectrum, TwitterVenn, and StreamGraphs to highlight comparisons between [...]

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The Personal Hygiene Experiment

By C.G. | Published: February 11, 2010

First, let me address the lack of writing as promised in my New Years Resolution post from December. My wife and I welcomed a baby boy into this world on January 27 and the days leading up to – and certainly following – his birth have preoccupied my mind. So hopefully that explains why I [...]

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I Resolve

By C.G. | Published: December 16, 2009

It’s quickly approaching that time of year again where we replace the calendars (if you still use dead trees for that kind of stuff). It’s also when those who observe start their Christmas shopping. What, you already started?!?!?! Overachievers. Anyway… along with the New Year, comes the famously proclaimed but hardly every applied New Year’s [...]

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Homelessness sucks. But if you must…

By C.G. | Published: June 3, 2009

I don’t know if I’m paying more attention lately or just simply seeing a lot more instances of homeless people. I certainly hope its my awareness going up and not the actual population of people out on the streets. If it is my awareness, chalk it up to the creativity of those dispersed from a [...]