So many of our business goals are driven by data. In the digital world, we have a seemingly unending supply of people, tools and services dedicated to “business intelligence”. So,…
The Commoditization of the Digital Services Industry
The general thought for a digital services company is to attempt to set themselves apart from their competitors using some niche or other differentiator. As technology evolves, the standard services…
Web Techniques: Setting up your working environment
Before you develop a website, you have to setup an environment. These are instructions for setting up a local environment to build websites. If you set this up, you will…
The Anatomy of Good Visualization
What makes for a good visualization? There are a number of components that are necessary for a visualization to be valuable. Just having a line (series item) represent some segment…
Stopwords in multiple languages
If you build data visualizations you have run into the issues of useless words destroying the value of your display. You should find a way to implement these “stopwords” into…
Terminal Hack: Show path in finder title bar
When you dig a few levels deep into the Finder, you may lose your path. Sure, you could enable the Path bar by going to View > Show Path Bar,…
What I’ve learned About Data Visualization
If you are working, in any capacity, chances are you see and use data visualizations everyday. There is so much data moving around, you have to find a way to…
Scaling graphics with retinajs
If you are building applications or websites, you need to account for retina/high resolution devices now. Here is a javascript plugin that will make it easier. http://retinajs.com/
Rapid Prototyping with Foundation
I have always been a fan of Rapid Application Development. In some cases prototyping an experience (AKA Interactive Wireframing) can also be a useful tool during development. Foundation is a…
List of useful Javascript Libraries
Here is a great list of libraries that can be used in applications. http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/02/40-stand-alone-javascript-libraries-for-specific-purposes/