The Rise of Hacker Journalism: When Word is Not Enough
Tweet Occasionally here at Curated Content HQ, we read a blog or article that sparks plenty of lively debate, low ball humour or lousy word plays like in the title. And sometimes the discussion turns into an opportunity to change the way the game is played. Obviously for a blog to have the ‘tool up’ effect, it needs to pack a pretty intense message. And it did. For starters it called journalists ‘geeks’. Then things got really crazy...
Read More2012: The Year for Visual Content?
Tweet Rather than take a number in the ‘Top Ten trends for 2012’ SEO queue, we thought we’d do something a little different: make one big bold prediction for 2012, and just put it out there. That way if we’re wrong, the blog title for this time next year will read: 2012: The Year for Visual Content? (Nope) We’re a content company, creating and curating all kinds of content for our clients, so most of our thinking on this comes...
Read MoreWhy You Need to Visualize Big Data
Tweet We live in an age of data. It’s everywhere. From the basic metric package that tells you how many people visited your blog on cheese to the thousands of pieces of data and analytics that flow daily into the clutches of Big business – it’s everywhere we look and shaping everything we do. And now, we want to see it. According to a recent article on Big Data by the highly respected business outfit, McKinsey...
Read MoreData Visualisation: The Ugly Duckling Parable
Tweet Something very strange is happening in the world of data. It’s along the lines of this: Imagine being born a statistic forever relegated to the boring part of the presentation that sends people to sleep. Then all of a sudden, a dramatic transformation occurs and those statistics and data are turn into something truly beautiful. Now seen as an object of beauty and a tool of engagement, the statistic rightfully claims its place in the...
Read MoreThe Dawn of Big Data Visualisation
Tweet A heavy hitter in the tech world is opening its kimono and letting you play with its data. Interested in the correlation of ‘peanut brittle’ as a search term and the Ebola virus? If this potential thematic cross-over excites you, then this is the tool for you. As its name would suggest, Google Correlate relies heavily of correlation of search terms. These correlations are then trended and a basic visualisation layer plots the...
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