Titanic: Behind the numbers
Wednesday, April 25th, 02012
100 years ago, the RMS Titanic set of on her maiden voyage only to strike tragedy two days later. If we look at the passenger list, what sort of additional information can be gleaned from the data?
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Categories: Storytelling, Visualizations
Tags: anniversary, charts, crash, death, graphs, iceberg, skype, survivors, titanic, Visualizations
Being passionate for your work
Friday, February 10th, 02012
Successful companies are the ones who are truly passionate and care about their product and customers. You can see that shine through with companies like TypeKit and FontDeck. They live and breath their passion and it is reflected on the quality of their work.
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Categories: Community, You're doing it wrong
Tags: adobe, benefits, creative mornings, even, features, fontdeck, fonts, jeffery even, passion, typekit, typography
Skólapúlsinn: At the intersection of education and technology
Thursday, January 12th, 02012
This is an article written for a local computer magazine in Iceland. It describes much of the skólapúlsinn projects I am involved in along with how we fused technology and education using open source software.
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Omnibus 02011
Sunday, January 1st, 02012
02011 was an incredibly busy year, so the number of posts published has been less than expected with only 11. Behind the scenes, the number of posts drafted was probably an all time high. Many new ideas were stubbed, but the time was never found to research, write and illustrate them further. That just means [...]
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What 2D Barcodes aren’t
Wednesday, October 5th, 02011
Over time, 2D barcodes have not lived up to their promise. Rather than push something that solves a non-problem, we can look back at the failures both in implementation, usage and what they were expected to achieve. This is a look into why 2D barcodes never, sadly, lived up to the hype.
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