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• How to Make Yourself Happier.

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  My First Splendid Truth is: To be happier, you have to think about feeling good , feeling bad , and feeling right , in an atmosphere of growth . Although this sounds like a simple and rather obvious formula, it took me a huge amount of time and thinking to work it out. Even once I’d come up with it, however, ...
  3 days ago

• Short Sentence, Artful Sentences

  
  Writing Material — Authority: 120
  This entry is a response to Derek’s post , about teaching the first chapter of Virgina Tufte ’s book Artful Sentence: Syntax as Style in his writing course. I’m not teaching this semester, so I can reflect on the book in that context, but I did want to reflect a little on what a book like this is good for. ...
  5 days ago

• All Hail Data Visualization Maps!

  
  The New Ledger Chequer-Board — Authority: 143
  Via Jessica Palmer we have this from xkcd, which is exellent. Yet another reason to love the Internet. As if we needed another reason, of course. Here is the original Minard map:
  1 week ago

• Cheat Sheet: Beyond Advanced Excel

  
  Freelancing and Outsourcing Tips, Commentary, Analysis, and News from oDesk — Authority: 469
  OK, so you’re really good with Microsoft Excel.  You can write bi-conditional nested if statements and vlookups that make peoples head spin.  You’re the only person in your tri-county area that can make a dynamic pivot chart with multiple vertical axes that retains its formatting.  Maybe you’ve even created ...
  1 week ago

• powers of ten again

  
  Mike Beversluis — Authority: 125
  Cell Size and Scale
  2 weeks ago

• Maps and Information: Words & Pictures Part Two

  
  Graphic Tales — Authority: 99
  Following up yesterdays post on maps, I offer a handful of image-driven representations of places, things and processes. If I noticed anything in yesterdays discussions, it was a sense of deflation: "You mean, Im supposed to show just what a [blank] is and what is looks like or what parts it has?" As if the problem of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Where Are The Copy Designers?

  
  Programmer's Paradox — Authority: 99
  The web is full of designers: visual designers, graphic designers, interaction designers, muppet designers.  I threw in muppet designers to see if you’re paying attention. Designers on the web are experiencing a bit of a revolution that is summed up in a few words: measure everything.  Led by the likes of ...
  6 weeks ago

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