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Using Diigo Group for DJCamp2011 - 0 views

When you run across, and save, some bookmark that you think would be of value to colleagues from DJCamp2011, click on Diigo's "More Options" button, check "Share to a Group," and select "DJCamp2011...

DJCamp2011

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DropboxAddons - Dropbox Wiki - 0 views

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shared by Tom Johnson on 15 May 11 - Cached
  • DropboxAddons Note: In addition to the Addons listed here, there are many other applications available at the Dropbox Apps Page.
  • Tom Johnson on 15 May 11
     
    Some interesting DropboxAddons here for most operating systems. Note: In addition to the Addons listed here, there are many other applications available at the Dropbox Apps Page.
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Download PowerPivot - Excel - Office.com - 0 views

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shared by Tom Johnson on 13 May 11 - No Cached
  • Tom Johnson on 13 May 11
     
    Tom Torok (NYT) writes: After years of looking down my nose at Excel because of its limitations, I have to say that I'm very impressed with Excel 2010 when used with a free Microsoft add-in called PowerPivot. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/download-powerpivot-HA101959985.aspx In a PowerPivot tutorial (link below), I imported eight tables  from several sources and joined them - yes, you can join relational data. It uses some magical data compression that allows for lightning fast sorts, filters and calculated fields. The largest table in the tutorial has about 2 million rows. A calculated field on that table took seconds. A did a pivot table on the table and the answers appeared as soon as I selected the fields. In one of  the training videos (http://www.powerpivot.com/) an MS guy works with a 101 million-record table on his laptop. It's really amazing. http://powerpivotsdr.codeplex.com/ If you install, be sure to read the prerequisites or you'll be installing and uninstalling both PowerPivot and Excel. I'm running it on a 32-bit XP machine (it won't run on a 64-bit XP but will work on Windows 7 64-bit). The tutorial is for a Windows 7 setup, but there are items in the menu bar that match the reference to the tutorial's ribbon. I noticed that if I call up an xlsx by double clicking on a file in Windows Explorer that PowerPivot is not enabled in the ribbon. If you call up a file from within Excel 2010 everything works as advertised.Regards, TT  
Tom Johnson

Reactions to Osama bin Laden's death: Female and non-U.S. residents more ambivalent. Vi... - 0 views

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shared by Tom Johnson on 09 May 11 - No Cached
  • Reactions to Osama bin Laden’s death: Female and non-U.S. residents more ambivalent. Via the NYT Reactions Matrix
  • Tom Johnson on 09 May 11
     
    By Dan Nguyen Reactions to Osama bin Laden's death: Female and non-U.S. residents more ambivalent. Via the NYT Reactions Matrix By Dan Nguyen | Published: May 9, 2011 This (totally not-double-checked) analysis is a riff off of the excellent New York Times visualization (The Death of a Terrorist: A Turning Point?) of how people reacted to Osama bin Laden's death. In the days following the news, the Times asked online readers to not only write their thoughts on bin Laden's killing, but put a mark on a scatterplot graph that best described their reaction. The Times used the data to show the continuum of reactions from everyone who participated. I wanted to see how reactions differed across geographical location and gender. Includes details of his methodology (and a bit on that of the original NYT graphic)
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Javascript used to display Business Database Search from The Dallas Morning News - 0 views

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  • Tom Johnson on 15 May 11
     
    Daniel Lathrop Wanted to share with all of you my latest installment in my ongoing love affair with Google Fusion Tables, the Dallas publicly-traded companies list. http://newsapps.dallasnews.com/media/dfw-public-companies.html I got the data from the biz desk on Thursday and wrote this little thing using JQuery, JQueryUI and FusionTables pretty quickly. And before everyone gets all "but you could have used [Caspio, TableSetter, Rails, PHP, Ilene, etc.]" on me, I know I could have. But doing this with Fusion Tables let me do all my work on the client side and let me create the user-experience I wanted. Plus, I now have a starting place to do this for any similar Fusion Tables project. For the curious, the Javascript can be found here: http://newsapps.dallasnews.com/media/fusiondmn.pubcompanies.js It's fewer than 150 lines, and more than a quarter of that is my Javascript for for rendering integer/floating point #s in newsroom style (e.g. $4.2 billion). I'm hoping to turn it into a robust tool for deploying searchable data with Fusion Tables and am going to ask my corporate overlords to let me open source it once I've done some refactoring to make it generally applicable. Critiques welcome. -Daniel --------------------------- Daniel Lathrop 206.718.0349 (cell)
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National Science Foundation Helps Fund scrible, A New Web Annotation Tool/Per... - 0 views

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shared by Tom Johnson on 12 May 11 - No Cached
  • INFOdocket Information Industry News + New Web Sites and Tools From Gary Price and Shirl Kennedy National Science Foundation Helps Fund scrible, A New Web Annotation Tool/Personal Web Cache + Video Demo Posted on May 12, 2011 by Gary D. Price scrible (pronounced scribble) launched about a week ago and you can learn more (free to register and use) here. The company has received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. From Venture Beat: The company lets users do three things: Save articles and pages so they’re available if the original goes offline; richly annotate online content using tools reminiscent of Word (highlighter, sticky note, etc.), and share annotated pages privately with others. scrible is free and will continue to be free to all users (125MB of storage space). A premium edition is also planned but features (aside from a larger storage quota) have not been announced. Robert Scoble has posted a video demo of scrible with the CEO of of the company, Victor Karkar, doing the “driving.” scrible sounds a lot like Diigo without the mobile access options. It also sounds similar (minus the markup features) to Pinboard. Pinboard does charge $9.97 for a lifetime membership with almost all features (there are many with new ones are debut regularly). For an extra $25/year all of the material you’ve bookmarked is cached by Pinboard. Cached pages look great INCLUDING PDF files. Pinboard is extremely fast and has a very low learning curve. Think Delicious and then add a ton of useful tools to it. Pinboard also provides mobile access to your saved bookmarks and cached documents. Finally, when used responsibly (aka abused) there are no storage space quotas. Which service do you prefer or does each service have a niche depending on the work you’re doing? What other tools to you use? Hat Tips and Thanks: @NspireD2 and @New Media Consortium Share this: Share Share Tagged: Annotation Tools, Diigo, Pinboard, scrible Posted in: Personal Archiving, Web To
  • INFOdocket Information Industry News + New Web Sites and Tools From Gary Price and Shirl Kennedy National Science Foundation Helps Fund scrible, A New Web Annotation Tool/Personal Web Cache + Video Demo Posted on May 12, 2011 by Gary D. Price scrible (pronounced scribble) launched about a week ago and you can learn more (free to register and use) here. The company has received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. From Venture Beat: The company lets users do three things: Save articles and pages so they’re available if the original goes offline; richly annotate online content using tools reminiscent of Word (highlighter, sticky note, etc.), and share annotated pages privately with others. scrible is free and will continue to be free to all users (125MB of storage space). A premium edition is also planned but features (aside from a larger storage quota) have not been announced. Robert Scoble has posted a video demo of scrible with the CEO of of the company, Victor Karkar, doing the “driving.” scrible sounds a lot like Diigo without the mobile access options. It also sounds similar (minus the markup features) to Pinboard. Pinboard does charge $9.97 for a lifetime membership with almost all features (there are many with new ones are debut regularly). For an extra $25/year all of the material you’ve bookmarked is cached by Pinboard. Cached pages look great INCLUDING PDF files. Pinboard is extremely fast and has a very low learning curve. Think Delicious and then add a ton of useful tools to it. Pinboard also provides mobile access to your saved bookmarks and cached documents. Finally, when used responsibly (aka abused) there are no storage space quotas. Which service do you prefer or does each service have a niche depending on the work you’re doing? What other tools to you use? Hat Tips and Thanks: @NspireD2 and @New Media Consortium Share this: Share Share Tagged: Annotation Tools, Diigo, Pinboard, scrible Posted in: Personal Archiving, Web Tools
  • Tom Johnson on 12 May 11
     
    " INFOdocket Information Industry News + New Web Sites and Tools From Gary Price and Shirl Kennedy National Science Foundation Helps Fund scrible, A New Web Annotation Tool/Personal Web Cache + Video Demo Posted on May 12, 2011 by Gary D. Price scrible (pronounced scribble) launched about a week ago and you can learn more (free to register and use) here. The company has received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. From Venture Beat: The company lets users do three things: Save articles and pages so they're available if the original goes offline; richly annotate online content using tools reminiscent of Word (highlighter, sticky note, etc.), and share annotated pages privately with others. scrible is free and will continue to be free to all users (125MB of storage space). A premium edition is also planned but features (aside from a larger storage quota) have not been announced. Robert Scoble has posted a video demo of scrible with the CEO of of the company, Victor Karkar, doing the "driving." scrible sounds a lot like Diigo without the mobile access options. It also sounds similar (minus the markup features) to Pinboard. Pinboard does charge $9.97 for a lifetime membership with almost all features (there are many with new ones are debut regularly). For an extra $25/year all of the material you've bookmarked is cached by Pinboard. Cached pages look great INCLUDING PDF files. Pinboard is extremely fast and has a very low learning curve. Think Delicious and then add a ton of useful tools to it. Pinboard also provides mobile access to your saved bookmarks and cached documents. Finally, when used responsibly (aka abused) there are no storage space quotas. Which service do you prefer or does each service have a niche depending on the work you're doing? What other tools to you use? Hat Tips and Thanks: @NspireD2 and @New Media Consortium Share this: Share Tagged: Annotation Tools, Diigo, Pinboard, scrible Posted in: P
Tom Johnson

Future Journalism Project - Jonathan Stray of the Associated Press on... - 0 views

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shared by Tom Johnson on 14 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Jonathan Stray of the Associated Press on investigating thousands (or millions) of documents by visualizing clusters. Presentation is from February 2011 at the National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting. Visualizations built with multidimensional scaling algorithm Glimmer.
  • Tom Johnson on 14 Jun 11
     
    Jonathan Stray of the Associated Press on investigating thousands (or millions) of documents by visualizing clusters. Presentation is from February 2011 at the National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting. Visualizations built with multidimensional scaling algorithm Glimmer.
Tom Johnson

Open Data Directory - 0 views

open.mflask.com

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shared by Tom Johnson on 09 May 11 - No Cached
  • A free search engine for data sets published by governments, private companies and other organizations. It now indexes 255180 datasets from many sources.
  • Tom Johnson on 09 May 11
     
    A free search engine for data sets published by governments, private companies and other organizations. It now indexes 255,180 datasets from many sources.
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Dirty Energy Money: About This Tool - 0 views

dirtyenergymoney.com/about.php

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shared by Tom Johnson on 09 May 11 - No Cached
  • The Dirty Energy Money tool provides an illustration of the network of funding relationships between Dirty Energy companies and politicians. You can use the interactive network map to explore our database campaign contribution relationships. Politicians and companies are positioned by their relationships, those that are close together tend to have similar patterns of giving and receiving.
  • Tom Johnson on 09 May 11
     
    The Dirty Energy Money tool provides an illustration of the network of funding relationships between Dirty Energy companies and politicians. You can use the interactive network map to explore our database campaign contribution relationships. Politicians and companies are positioned by their relationships, those that are close together tend to have similar patterns of giving and receiving.
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