Infographics
Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of data, information, or knowledge. The purpose is to present complex information quickly and clearly and to enhance our understanding by using our brain’s ability to recognize trends and patterns. As the amount of data in the world continues to mushroom, demand will increase for workers with […]
Blogonomics
Robert Lee Hotz is a science writer at The Wall Street Journal where he reports on new research and its impact on society. In a recent article, he said “In the beginning, there was the genome. Then came the foldome, the phenome and the connectome, quickly followed by the secretome, the otherome and the unknome.” His point […]
Flip the Digits?
A dear friend from high school and I were commiserating the other day about the birthdays we both had just enjoyed. She told me that when she turned 65, the thought occurred to her to flip the digits: 65 became 56. How nice. Now that we both just turned 67, a flip of the digits […]
The Future Is More Than Facebook
The frenzy over Facebook is unprecedented. There are many interesting dimensions to the story; the most interesting to me, is how the insiders are upping the number of shares they plan to unload on the public. This does not give one confidence — that those with the most information have decided to reduce their long-term […]
Connecticut’s Power Woes Nearly Over
We got power restored at 5:17 PM last night after an eight-day outage. As of 2 PM on Monday there were still 53, 103 customers not yet restored with electricity. That is 4% of the customers in the state. Someone today told me the average household is three people. If so, that means there are […]
