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Quit Whining, Your Problem Just Isn’t That Important – Put it Into Perspective

January 12, 2011

Having a bad day, take a moment and see how it compares in relative size to the Universe. Compared to the rest of the planets, we are relatively small. We’re only larger than Mars, Venus, Mercury, and now not a planet Pluto. But when we put our Sun into the picture, the rest of the [...]

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Excel Spreadsheet Modeling Best Practices

January 6, 2011

Spreadsheets are fun. They allow a layperson to create some very powerful data models. There are limitations for extreme cases, but will suffice for an average analyst. According to IBM’s Spreadsheet Modeling Best Practice, a spreadsheet model should: Easy to use Focused on important issues Easy to understand Reliable These are my top recommendations based [...]

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Home Prices to Continue to Decline – When Will We Reach Equilibrium

January 4, 2011

Photo by gruntzookiIt’s been a long time since I’ve played economist. It really doesn’t take much training because all economists don’t really know how to predict the future. Economics is all about assumptions. As we’re looking to buy a home in Seattle, WA, we’re finding that home prices are still expensive. There’s a big disconnect [...]

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Watch Less TV, Do Something Better

January 3, 2011

No explanation needed. Go to informationisbeautiful.net for more great infographics.

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Five Powerful Examples of Crowdsourcing Systems

December 16, 2010

If two heads are better than one, what about a million heads. Crowdsourcing is distributing work to thousands and millions of workers, either for payment or volunteer service. Below are some of my favorite crowd sourcing examples. Amazon Mechanical Turk – Unlike other automated computing sourcing systems, Amazon relies on human beings to perform small [...]

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Visual Thinking in the Writing Process

December 15, 2010

Ryan Coleman, founding member of VizThink, created an amazing presentation on visual thinking and the writing process. Although it was presented at an event for journalists, I think it applies to all of us and our writing process. Visual Thinking & The Writing Process View more presentations from Ryan Coleman | Freelance Information Designer & Facilitator.

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Tips for Visual Note-taking

December 14, 2010

Visual note-taking or graphical recording is the processes of taking notes using images and graphics. It happens live, during the discussion. Sunni Brown is a talented visual note-taker and graphical recorder. She gives us 18 tips for more effective note-taking. You can’t write as fast as people can talk. When working with a group as [...]

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How I Capture Screen Shots

December 8, 2010

Screen shots are great. They help create a visual that can replace a lot of written text instructions. There are plenty of options out there. First off, show me the free options Don’t want to spend money and buy software. Most operating systems contain some free options. Windows 7 – The Snipit Tool will do [...]

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