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Reference: Data Is the New Dirt–Visualization

Analysis, Augmented Reality, Blog Wisdom, Briefings (Core), Collective Intelligence, info-graphics/data-visualization, InfoOps (IO), IO Sense-Making, Methods & Process, Peace Intelligence

Full Short Video Brief Online

About this talk

David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut — and it may just change the way we see the world.

About David McCandless

David McCandless draws beautiful conclusions from complex datasets — thus revealing unexpected insights into our world. Full bio and more links

Phi Beta Iota: “Mining” the soil does not go far. Actually planting, tilling, watering, and growing is much more powerful. This is one of the most compelling TED briefs we have seen. “Language of the eye” combined with “language of the mind.” All about “relative” numbers and relationships. “Let the data set change your mindset.” Art of knowledge compression. Living data in a Google document. If you visit his books at Amazon, take the time to check out the related books on data visualization that Amazon clusters for around these.

Tip of the Hat to Magnus Hultberg at LinkedIn. Also see these resources.

David McCandless' two books:

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Journal: Return on Investment Missing from IT World

Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, InfoOps (IO), IO Sense-Making, Methods & Process

BI implementations fail because they are sold to the IT departments and not to the business users. The use case and ROI needs to be built with the business users. If that is not done, it results in:

high probability of self-ware
lack of ROI for the business user
a pure IT project not driven by the needs of the business

Phi Beta Iota: For decades we have been railing against the substitution of technology for thinking; the absence of processing power and analytic desk-top tool-kits, and so on. We have also pointed out that “BI” is nothing more than data mining, that competitive intelligence ignores context, and that only commercial intelligence with a 360 view as well as historical and future forecast aspects will do. Peter Drucker said in Forbes ASAP on 28 August 1998 that we have spent the past 50 years focused on the T in IT, and need to spend the next 50 focused on the I. That is what this web site and the Earth Intelligence Network, a 501c3 seeking donors, are focused upon. The World Brain and Global Game, connecting all minds to all information in all languages all the time, is achievable. Paul Strassmann was the first to point out in a very credible documented way that the ROI for most IT investments in the Fortune 500 is negative to neutral. IT is not pulling its weight because IT has no strategy and no intellectual frame of reference, e.g. connecting dots to dots, dots to people, and people to people so as to achieve specified outcomes.

See Also:

Steele Brief to NSA in Vegas 2000

2010/08/26

Worth a Look: Knowledge Value Pyramid

Methods & Process, Worth A Look

Competing in the Knowledge Economy is a blog by Tim Powell, a member of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) and also active at LinkedIn.

While we have always said that information costs money and intelligence makes money (we call this Information Arbitrage), we like Tim's additional emphasis on DECISION, ACTION, and VALUE, and recommend both the specific Blog entry illustrated here, and the Blog in general.

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Journal: Open Source Center Not So Open….

Methods & Process, Misinformation & Propaganda, Open Government, Reform, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy

Open Sourcing U.S. Intelligence Needs

By Curt Hopkins / August 24, 2010 5:10 PM / 6 Comments

Open Source Closed

Before you get excited about joining “the OpenSource.gov community to get access to the latest open source reporting and analysis,” you should know . . . you can't. The OSC is open only to U.S. government employees, contractors, foreign liaisons and employees of the BBC Monitoring Service.

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Tip of the Hat to Mario Profaca at Facebook.

See Also:

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Journal: Open Source Flashes Its Canines

Technologies

August 26, 2010

We’ve already established that open-source technology is entering the mainstream. There are naysayers, and they’re concerned about licensing compliance. An article at zdnet.co.uk entitled “Compliance Scheme Aims to Dispel Open-Source Concerns” outlines the ‘Open Compliance Program.’ The Linux Foundation launched the program to help companies comply with open-source licenses, partly due to the increasing use of Linux in mobile devices. Foundation Chief Jim Zemlin says the program is backed by “virtually every major player in the world of enterprise and mobile computing,” including Adobe, AMD, Cisco, Google, HP, Intel, Novell, Samsung, and Sony. Even with a few doubts raised, the OCP assures that open source technology has a solid future and is backed by virtually every major player in the world of enterprise and mobile computing.

Bret Quinn, August 26, 2010

Tip of the Hat to Stephen E. Arnold at LinkedIn.

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Journal: Google Real-Time Search

Tools

Google Realtime Search Gets New Name, Its Own URL, And Kick In The Pants

by Alexia Tsotsis on Aug 26, 2010

In a move that emphasizes the increasing importance of realtime search, Google has just given their realtime search function a kick in the pants, moving it from the lowly “Updates” sidebar on regular Google search to it’s own URL http://google.com/realtime, which was broken this morning but now seems to be redirecting to http://www.google.com/realtime?esrch=RealtimeLaunch::Experiment.

Tip of the Hat to Magnus Hultberg at LinkedIn.

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Event: 16 Sept 2010, Wash DC, Miller-McCune-Live! Debate (Is Washington for Sale to Special Interests?)

Commerce, Corporations, Government, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests

September 16 @ 8:30am (breakfast will be served at 8:00am)

National Press Club
First Amendment Lounge
529 14^th Street, NW
Washington, D.C.

Moderated by Miller-McCune Editor-in-Chief John Mecklin, the panelists are Rolf Lundberg, Jr., U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Craig Holman, Public Citizen; and Frank Baumgarter, co-author of Lobbying and Policy Change.

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