Dynamic Chart imporves Data Presentation: Motion Charting

This presentation by Hans Rosling utilizes Motion Charting, presenting quantitative data so that it's dynamic and captivating.

 

Education for the Internet: Lynda.com

A friend of a friend has a project and needs a specialist to oversee its implementation. You haven’t worked on the exact type of project before. Are you going to turn it down this opportunity to make some extra cash? Of course not! You’ll say “Hell yea I can do it,” and then teach yourself what needs to be done.

So, now you’ve got the job and need to figure it out. You jump on the net and go to Lynda.com, a subscription based infomediary site, offering learning tools for software and design topics.

Tim Ferriss on Building Traffic to a Blog

Tim Ferriss, if you don't already know, is a best selling author for the Four Hour Work Week, Princeton graduate and popular blogger. I enjoy reading his blog and, when I get a chance, watching videos of his presentations. In this presentation, at WordCamp San Francisco, in 2009, Ferriss tells his secrets to becoming a successful blogger, covering the topics of search engine optimization (SEO), research, writing and others.

Seth Godin on Online Traffic

This is an interesting post from Seth Godin's blog. Well, the post itself isn't interesting, but the links are. These two websites can compare traffic between sites: Complete.com and Quantcast.

Gapminder: Making World Statistics Dynamic

Gapminder.org is creating dynamic quantitative-data from years of statistics.

I would love to see Pew Internet Research incorporate this method to explain some of the statistics on their website.