Day: April 9, 2012

Is this Architecture?

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One need to ask if what is depicted in the view below is architecture or if it is solution design. The  picture is taken from the ArchiSurance Case Study by the Open Group which has released it under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ license. The ArchiSurance Case Study can be downloaded here.

The Art & Beauty of Data Visualization

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Believe it or not, the Life & Culture section of the WSJ is expounding on the virtue of data visualization for practical (communication) and aesthetic purposes:

At companies and universities, and far beyond, the goal of data-driven digital artists is clear, not cynical: convey complex concepts quickly and crisply. They want to generate not Art-with-a-capital-A, necessarily, but understanding. They take stone-cold data—units of information—and turn them into something warmly communicative. Beautiful, too.

via The Art of Data Visualization | Marvels – WSJ.com.

Related, I recently watched a good TED Talk by David McCandless on the Beauty of Data Visualization:

After watching, I picked up McCandless’ Visual Miscellaneum, not because I have any interest in miscellany. Rather, I wanted to see the different mechanisms, formats and patterns used to bring that data to life.
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Employers ask for Facebook passwords but not social skills

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Lately there has been a lot of buzz about employers asking potential employees for their Facebook passwords. I heard yet another story about this over the weekend. While I don’t feel employers should be asking for social media passwords, this post is more about the irony that employers want social passwords but are not asking […]