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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 that have come to be known as “Digital Services” are becomming commoditized. Right about now, service industry professionals are yelling and screaming about how a […]
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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 have the ability to build and test your personal projects without needing internet access. Applications In order to build a local environment quickly, I have […]
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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 of data (y-axis) over time (x-axis) isn’t enough. For a data visualization to be relevant you need two main things, context and reference. The more […]
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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 your data streams. Here is a collection of stopword lists in many languages. http://www.ranks.nl/stopwords
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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, but you can also enable the Path view in the less-obtrusive title bar. Enable Command: defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES Reversal Command: defaults write […]
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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 make sense of it all. Very few users can make sense of raw data and even fewer can see patterns in that. Good visualization layers […]
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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/
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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 great framework for this. Used correctly, it can really help to refine requirements, educate the client or help define user experience requirements. More info: http://foundation.zurb.com/prototyping.php
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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/