April 01, 2008

bug/feature: dusty BSOD, Many Eyes

Bug:
Lengthy and detailed report of analyzing a Blue Screen Of Death situation, ends up with cleaning dust off the CPU fan and radiator, and presto! BSOD is gone.
Memo to myself - try it on my laptop (got a couple of BSODs last week).

Feature:
Many Eyes is a wonderful site that let's you upload data to share with others and use visual analysis in order to study your data and bring out points about it to the world in a persuasive way. You can also play around with data provided by others, to see what you can extract from it.
The collaborative nature of this site allows users to discuss the data itself, and the statistical inferences made by data users.

Innovative data visualization tools are a must in this age of accelerating data accumulation. The best example I saw Hans Rosling presentation in TED - I suggest to invest 20 minutes in this entertaining and genius presentation. Done? Go play with data in Gapminder website.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

GAPMinder is fascinating. A better link would be directly to the online application - http://tools.google.com/gapminder

Ofer Prat said...

Indeed it is - I would like to use it for demonstration bugs opening/closing rate over a project time line.