What Earth Would Look Like With Rings Like Saturn
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I'm a couple days late on catching this one, but it's well worth 3 minutes of your time. So nicely done, and an awesome sight.
Enjoy.
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Microsoft's amazing new data visualization tool Pivot
Microsoft Launches Pivot, A Radically New Visualization of Online Objects
It always gives us joy to tell our readers that Microsoft is actually doing cool things. The company's Live Labs has been the source of a few interesting projects: a 3D photo-stitcher called PhotoSynth, a bookmarking service called Thumbtack (which was shuttered just this month). Typically, the UIs have been slick, but user adoption has lagged.
Today, the Live Labs' latest creation has launched. Pivot is a fun, powerful discovery tool, built on Seadragon and powered by Silverlight, that runs in Vista or Windows 7 with IE8. It looks great and allows for truly intuitive exploration of information.
The official demo video is was pretty cool, but is proving unembeddable. Instead, take a look at this onstage demo from Neowin:
via readwriteweb.com
Though I wouldn't call it radically new as many have tried to help users visualize data (even Cognos), this looks to be the most user friendly of them all. Given Microsoft's expertise with Pivot Tables and Excel, I have a feeling that this project is going somewhere.
Which Starbucks Product is the Best Buy?
Recently, the cost of coffee has been at the top of mind. It was put there shortly after Starbucks launched their new instant coffee product called VIA Ready Brew. You can read a post on why I think it will succeed over at my main blog, Why Starbucks VIA Ready Brew will Succeed.
With VIA in Starbucks stores, the number of caffeine fixing product choices available to Starbucks customers is a little overwhelming. You have three sizes of drip, whole/ground beans to brew your own, a long list of customizable milk based espresso drinks and now VIA Ready Brew. But which one gives you the most bang for the buck? That is what I want to know.
After doing some research and compiling some data, I created the attached chart.
Clearly, you can see that the best value per ounce is actually the classic Folgers Instant. However, when walking into a Starbucks store, your best choice is the brew it yourself bag of beans at $0.05 per ounce.
If you don't have time to brew it yourself and are on the go, ask for a Venti Drip... $0.11 per ounce with 20 ounces of goodness. Next, go for the 12-pack of VIA Ready Brew and mix it once you get to work.
Stay away from the milk based latte, mocha, frappies, etc. They can cost you double the Venti Drip with a fraction of the caffeine in them.
There will be a more in depth discussion of coffee, caffeine and consumer choices coming up over at my main blog.
RNA Structural Statistics Browser
Designed and developed user interface and visualization for statistics on RNA structure patterns. July 2009 - present.
Popular Pizza Toppings by The Pioneer Woman Cooks
The Pioneer Woman recently held a contest about pizzas. They compiled the toppings by mention and the pie chart above is the result. looks like people love pepperoni, bacon, mushrooms, and sausage on their pizza the most.
What goes into a single cup of Starbucks coffee
Modified from original. Hat tip to ChartPorn.
Data Visualization. Il Buongiorno Globale su Twitter
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Jer Thorp, artista e insegnante canadese, di Vancouver, ha creato quest'animazione in 3D che visualizza le persone che si alzano e salutano il nuovo giorno, o che, eventualmente, più tardi augurano 'buonasera' su Twitter. Si chiama GoodMorning!
Triathlon Results and Their Story « Aric In Training
As you all know, I love numbers, patterns, and reading data. I recently reviewed my most recent triathlon division results on a chart and found some interesting patterns. Check it out at my triathlon training blog, Aric In Training.
Visualizing a Training Plan « Aric In Training
Visualizing a Training Plan
October 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment
As I start building my training plan for 2010 for the fourth time, I quickly realized that my problem with producing the plan is that I can’t visualize the progress. This is a problem with with the example plan that my trainer shared with me a while back.
I can see the progression of the endurance phase, that is just a matter of increasing bike/run distances each workout. But when you move into speed and intensity workouts, how do you show the progress visually? Training Peaks WKO+ software uses an rTSS metric derived from a number of variables. The purpose is to normalize every run so that you can compare it to other runs despite route, elevation, weather, etc.
It is something like this that I think I need to develop for myself that shows the progress of intensity, yet handles more simplistic endurance progress. If I can find something that can show intensity/distance/etc/etc of strength workouts, bike workouts, swim workouts, and run workouts all on the same playing field, I think I would find my missing link.
Clearly something like this does not exist. As I mentioned before, Training Peaks offers something close, but I am unwilling to spend the $100 just to test it. Besides, I am on a Mac, which they don’t support.
Visualizing a triathlon training plan… not as easy as it sounds!
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Rate ThisCategories: Fitness · Goals · Running · Swimming · Tools · analysis · triathlon training
Tagged: analysis, Goals, training plans, Triathlon, triathlon training, Triathlon Training Plans, visualization, workout, Workout_Logs
This is a recent post from my triathlon training blog, AricInTraining. Seeking some help in regards to creating visualization of a triathlon training plan.
I am a visual person and need to visualize the progress. If you have any suggestions, please email me or leave a comment.
