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This last year felt like it took forever with so many things happening. Each quarter of the year I was presented with a different challenge and opportunity person growth (however cheesy that sounds). Image by booleansplit via Flickr The year revolved mostly around my work at Zemanta as I spent most of my waking hours […]
Continuing my saga of visualizing Koornk social network I decided that obvious next step is to map out who talks to who and how much. For this task I used excellent Python library NetworkX that uses pygraphviz to draw the pretty pictures in the end. Just to explain what you’re looking at: I downloaded all […]
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Creating a good visualization consist of two major parts: having a robust visualization technique (wave graph in this example) having a good data set that fits to the visualization technique After I got Graphication working yesterday, I quickly realized that my initial data set doesn’t fit this technique out of the box as it was […]
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I’m working on some visualizations and I want to achieve the look of Last.fm visualization lastgraph3: The great thing about this is that Andew Godwin, author of the site open sourced the underlying library – Graphication. Since I’m an OS X user, I decided to make the whole thing work on my system – Leopard […]
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Image by `michelleBlack via Flickr Playing with new movie recommendation engine Jinni, I’ve stumbled upon a new TV show/series to watch – Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. It was recommended to me because I’m really enjoying Tina Fey‘s 30 Rock show. Both shows are dealing with prime time live shows from perspective of the […]
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Image by ahinsajain via Flickr I’ve stumbled upon a Bollywood movie – Fashion, directed by Madhur Bhandarkar with Priyanka Chopra, a lead role as Meghna Mathur. It’s set in a glamorous Mumbai and tells a story of aspiring fashion model’s road to sucess and downfall. It didn’t really impress me overall, but I did notice […]
I’ve always been a bit of methodology junkie, so imagine my delight when I stumbled upon this great Beta E-book on design methodologies. Author Hugh Dubberly walks us over 100 different processes and methodologies in his book How do you design? Having this kind of resource always with you must be really handy if you’re […]
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Studying branding and marketing of youth, you can see a few trends and patterns that everyone tries to exploit: personal image (e.g. clothes) and entertainment (e.g. movies, games and music). Image by mechkad via Flickr As such, music plays an important role in my everyday life, be it a car driving to work, listening to […]
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Learning is hard. Mostly because you have to sit down and concentrate on your subject. Then you have to take notes and repeat it, while preferably do exercises and make use of it in everyday life. It turns out that there’s a better way. Image by Pink Sherbet Photography via Flickr In my experience, the best way to learn […]
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After many travels and BarCamps around the world, it’s now finally time to settle down and organize one locally. To bring together community not only on weekly afternoon events, but to also make it a more intense idea sharing weekend. On 17th January 2009, we’re going to have BarCamp in Ljubljana, Slovenia with a very […]