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Intro What is a Sankey-Diagram? References Demo version Full version   Know-How Games Software Recommendations Pinchleni Software   What is a Sankey-Diagram? A Sankey diagram is a graphic illustration of flows, like energy, material or money flows. Usually the flows are illustrated as arrows. The width of the arrows is proportional to the size of the represented flow. Sankey diagrams are a better way to illustrate which flows represent advantages and what flows are responsible for waste and emission

etadata is the “data about the data”: all the habitat data, SOPs and abiotic data that is in dire need of the standardization Kyrpides writes about.

Metadata is the “data about the data”: all the habitat data, SOPs and abiotic data that is in dire need of the standardization Kyrpides writes about.

In 2005 the Genomics Standards Consortium was formed to address this problem. Renzo Kottman from the Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany  talked about software development within the GSC, and specifically about his own project: the Genomic Contextual Data Markup Language, or GCDML. GCDML is an XML-based standard for describing everything associated with a genomic or a metagenomic sample: where it was taken from , under what conditions, which protocols were used to extract, sequence, assemble, finish and analyze the metagenome.

Alexander S. Szalay is a well-regarded astronomer, but he hasn't peered through a telescope in nearly a decade. Instead, the professor of physics and astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University learned how to write software code, build computer servers, and stitch millions of digital telescope images into a sweeping panorama of the universe.

Today, data sharing in astronomy isn't just among professors. Amateurs are invited into the data sets through friendly Web interfaces, and a schoolteacher in Holland recently made a major discovery, of an unusual gas cloud that might help explain the life cycle of quasars—bright centers of distant galaxies—after spending part of her summer vacation gazing at the objects on her computer screen. Crowd Science, as it might be called, is taking hold in several other disciplines, such as biology, and is rising rapidly in oceanography and a range of environmental sciences. "Crowdsourcing is a natural solution to many of the problems that scientists are dealing with that involve massive amounts of data," says Haym Hirsh, director of the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems at the National Science Foundation.

Mr. Szalay's unusual career began with a stint as a rock star. While in graduate school in Hungary, he played lead guitar in the band Panta Rhei, which released two albums and several singles in the 1970s.

We provide web-based tools and consulting services to support organizations and consultants. Our purpose is to help teams make decisions based on shared data, resulting in increased alignment and faster implementation.. Here are several standard organization needs, and how we can add value to your work   Your need Our value-add Surveys Shared results lead to group learning. Identify your areas of strength and weakness. Meetings Interactive meetings provide opportunities for buy-in and for gathering the group's intelligence. Hear from everyone.   Brainstorm or Delphi process Create better solutions and build improvement by using fast-cycle brainstorming to increase group understanding.

Creately is a visual collaboration platform used by project teams to communicate more effectively. With Creately's easy to use interface and Shared Projects, everyone on your design, development and business teams can collaborate on software designs, wireframes, business & strategy diagrams easily.

Microsoft Dynamics is largely present in just about every software market but medical. And they’re missing out big time. The United States healthcare IT market is growing at about 13% per year and is expected to reach $35 billion in 20111. The biggest opportunity for growth in the industry is among ambulatory care physician practices, partly due to the Stimulus Bill requiring the use of electronic health records (EHR) systems by 2015.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and REDMOND, Wash. – Jan. 20, 2010 – Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) plan to create new opportunities for software developers to deliver and market Web applications to small business customers through the Intuit App Center. The two companies plan to integrate the capabilities of their cloud services platforms ­– the Intuit Partner Platform and Microsoft Windows® Azure platform™ – to enable developers and channel partners to deliver solutions to the millions of employees within businesses that use QuickBooks® financial software. In addition, the two companies will provide small businesses with Microsoft’s cloud-based productivity applications via the Intuit App Center.

s two leading technology platform providers to small businesses, Intuit and Microsoft are creating a vast ecosystem of more than 750,000 development firms and channel partners to create more new innovative applications and services that will reach the market more quickly.

This ethnographic study investigates how a project group deals with the contradiction between distributed knowledge in boundary-spanning collaborative processes and the expectation that software systems will provide unified, codified knowledge. Group and individual activities were observed over a period of 18 months, to examine the ways knowledge was presented, recognized, shared, or otherwise managed during joint design of business process and IT systems change. The study explores how knowledge and expertise were translated across organizational boundaries, and identifies four stages in the development of group understanding of how to manage sensemaking and expertise across knowledge boundaries: focus on defining shared goals; acknowledging and sharing tacit knowledge about organizational practice; identifying external influences; and explicit knowledge generation.

With VDI, virtual desktop images are stored in a data center and provided to a client via the network. The virtual machines will include the entire desktop stack, from operating system to applications to user preferences, and management is provided centrally through the backend virtual desktop infrastructure.   The promise is that VDI will replace the need for myriad systems management and security tools that are currently deployed. No more demands for traditional desktop management tools for OS deployment, patch management, anti-virus, personal firewalls, encryption, software distribution and so on. In fact, many are suggesting that we can return to thin client computing models

STAN (short for subSTance flow ANalysis) is a freeware that helps to perform material flow analysis according to the Austrian standard ÖNorm S 2096 (Material flow analysis - Application in waste management).

Sankey Helper v2.4 helps you design Sankey diagrams from Excel data ... in Excel !

Sankey diagrams are a specific type of flow chart, in which the width of the arrows is shown proportionally to the flow quantity. They are typically used to visualize energy or material transfers between processes. The flow arrows can be color-coded to indicate the type of the flow (energy, mass, costs, etc).

AggFlow, the world's most sophisticated plant simulation and flow analysis software, has been developed specifically for the aggregate and mining industry to maximize production and improve profitability.

The Prediction API enables access to Google's machine learning algorithms to analyze your historic data and predict likely future outcomes. Upload your data to Google Storage for Developers, then use the Prediction API to make real-time decisions in your applications

Backboard makes it easy to securely collect feedback and approval on documents, presentations, graphics, and websites. Backboard works with all common file formats.

Do you wonder why people don’t understand the idea you’re trying to get across in a meeting? Are you mentoring another developer and struggling to understand why the still don’t get it? Do you run training courses and wonder why the attendees only learn 10% of the material? We are all teachers whether as informal mentors, coaches, trainers or parents. Yet only professional educators receive training in this area. Nearly two years ago I started reading neuroscience (Norman Doidge’s “The Brain that Changes Itself”), for fun. Along the way I acquired an interest in neuroscience and wondered how its lessons could be applied to Agile Software Development and beyond.

Primary care practices typically measure productivity according to the number of visits, which also drives payment.

Several studies have estimated the amount of time that primary care physicians devote to nonvisit work.1,2 To provide a more detailed description, my colleagues and I used our electronic health record to count units of primary care work during the course of a year.

Greenhouse Internists is a community-based internal medicine practice employing five physicians in Philadelphia. In 2008, we had an active caseload of 8440 patients between 15 and 99 years of age.

AutoMap is a text mining tool that enables the extraction of network data from texts. AutoMap can extract content analytic data (words and frequencies), semantic networks, and meta-networks from unstructured texts developed by CASOS at Carnegie Mellon.  Pre-processors for handling pdf’s and other text formats exist.  Post-processors for linking to gazateers and belief inference also exist. The main functions of AutoMap are to extract, analyze, and compare texts in terms of concepts, themes, sentiment, semantic networks and the meta-networks extracted from the texts. AutoMap exports data in DyNetML and can be used interoperably with *ORA. AutoMap uses parts of speech tagging and proximity analysis to do computer-assisted Network Text Analysis (NTA). NTA encodes the links among words in a text and constructs a network of the linked words. AutoMap subsumes classical Content Analysis by analyzing the existence, frequencies, and covariance of terms and themes. AutoMap has been implemented in Java 1.5.0_07. It can operate in both a front end with gui, and backend mode. Main functionalities of AutoMap are: Extract, analyze and compare mental models of individuals and groups. Reveal structure of social and organizational systems from texts. AutoMap also offers a variety of techniques for pre-processing Natural Language: Named-Entity Recognition Stemming (Porter, KStem) Collocation (Bigram) Detection Extraction routines for dates, events, parts of speech Deletion Thesaurus development and application Flexible ontology usage Parts of Speech Tagging

Over the past 25 years we have built an unparalleled set of skills in bringing the right stakeholders together to collaborate, set priorities, and move forward with confidence. Organizations are increasingly complex and geographically distributed, yet the need for close collaboration and priority-setting is more critical than ever before. The world’s most successful organizations spanning government, industry, and academia rely on Expert Choice for rapid convergence of experience, intuition, and specific data. We’ve designed our software to be quick-to-learn, easy-to-use, and rooted in how we all make decisions. Take a look at how we work with our customers to improve outcomes, reduce costs, save time, and build alignment, buy-in, and confidence.