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		<title>Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[analysis capabilities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year we looked at the four companies and compared their business model over two quarters: Apple (hardware), Amazon (retail), Google (advertising), Microsoft (software). It struck me how far the integrated Wolfram Alpha technology has come in the last two years. It combines the symbolic computing capabilities of the Mathematica platform with curated data (for example [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visualign.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23320506&#038;post=1465&#038;subd=visualign&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Visualizing Conversion Rates (Funnels, Bullet Charts)</title>
		<link>http://visualign.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/visualizing-conversion-rates-funnels-bullet-charts/</link>
		<comments>http://visualign.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/visualizing-conversion-rates-funnels-bullet-charts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[bullet chart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conversion rates]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most sales processes go through a series of stages, from first contact through successive engagement of the potential client to the close. One can think of these as special cases of attrition-based workflows. These are very typical in online (B2C eCommerce) or tele-marketing (call centers) and companies usually collect a lot of data around the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visualign.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23320506&#038;post=1441&#038;subd=visualign&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Same information with Bar Charts (Source: Ash Maurya&#039;s Spark59 Blog)</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Funnel Chart showing funnel performance (Source: Ash Maurya&#039;s Spark59 Blog)</media:title>
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		<title>Magic Quadrant Business Intelligence 2013</title>
		<link>http://visualign.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/magic-quadrant-business-intelligence-2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Industrial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data visualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gartner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interactive diagram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magic Quadrant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of the year again: Gartner has released its report on Business Intelligence and Analytics platforms. One year ago we looked at how the data in the Magic Quadrant &#8211; the two-dimensional space of execution vs. vision &#8211; can be used to visualize movement over time. In fact, the article Gartner&#8217;s Magic Quadrant [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visualign.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23320506&#038;post=1423&#038;subd=visualign&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Gartner&#039;s Magic Quadrant for Business intelligence, changes from 2012 to 2013</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Subset of companies who improved vision and/or execution over the last year.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Two vendors deteriorated in 2013</media:title>
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		<title>Visualizing Global Risks 2013</title>
		<link>http://visualign.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/global-risks-2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Industrial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Socioeconomic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data visualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global economic inequality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graph visualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visual exploration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world economic forum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago we looked at Global Trends 2025, a 2008 report by the National Intelligence Commission. The 120 page document made surprisingly little use of data visualization, given the well-funded and otherwise very detailed report. By contrast, at the recent World Economic Forum 2013 in Davos, the Risk Response Network published the eighth edition [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visualign.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23320506&#038;post=1385&#038;subd=visualign&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Source for all figures: World Economic Forum (except where noted otherwise)</media:title>
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		<title>2012 in review</title>
		<link>http://visualign.wordpress.com/2012/12/31/2012-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://visualign.wordpress.com/?p=1381</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 36,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 8 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report. Filed under: [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visualign.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23320506&#038;post=1381&#038;subd=visualign&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Circos Data Visualization How-to Book</title>
		<link>http://visualign.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/circos-data-visualization-how-to-book/</link>
		<comments>http://visualign.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/circos-data-visualization-how-to-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 23:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[circos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data visualization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year we have looked at a powerful data visualization tool called Circos developed by Martin Krzywinski from the British Columbia Genome Science Center. The previous post looked at an example of how this tool can be used to show complex connectivity pathways in the human neocortex, so-called Connectograms. The Circos tool can be [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visualign.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23320506&#038;post=1365&#038;subd=visualign&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Contributions by State and Political party during 2012 U.S. Presidential Elections</media:title>
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		<title>2012 Election Result Maps</title>
		<link>http://visualign.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/2012-election-result-maps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times has covered the 2012 U.S. presidential election in great detail, including the much heralded fivethirtyeight Blog (after the 538 electoral votes) by forecaster Nate Silver. His poll-aggregation model has consistently produced the most accurate forecasts, and called 99 of 100 states correctly in both the 2008 and the 2012 elections. A [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visualign.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23320506&#038;post=1345&#038;subd=visualign&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">2012 Election Delta By County</media:title>
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		<title>Superstorm Sandy &#8211; Visualizing Hurricanes</title>
		<link>http://visualign.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/superstorm-sandy-visualizing-hurricanes/</link>
		<comments>http://visualign.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/superstorm-sandy-visualizing-hurricanes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 02:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Scientific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national hurricane center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[storm force winds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Time-lapse animation of Sandy Oct-28 from geostationary orbit, 1 frame per minute, 11 hours of daylight. Although &#8220;only&#8221; a category 1 hurricane, this superstorm has enormous size. Tropical storm force winds extend out over an area 900 miles in diameter. Living in South Florida makes you alert to tropical storms during hurricane season from May [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visualign.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23320506&#038;post=1318&#038;subd=visualign&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trends in Health Habits across the United States</title>
		<link>http://visualign.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/trends-in-health-habits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week Scientific American published an interesting article about trends in health habits across the United States. The article includes both a large composite chart as well as a page with an interactive chart. Both are well done and a great example of using a visualization to help telling a story. I personally find the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visualign.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23320506&#038;post=1300&#038;subd=visualign&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Obesity Trend By State</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Tobacco Trend By State</media:title>
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		<title>Inequality and the World Economy</title>
		<link>http://visualign.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/inequality-and-the-world-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>visualign</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Socioeconomic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gini]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last edition of The Economist featured a 25-page special report on &#8220;The new politics of capitalism and inequality&#8221; headlined &#8220;True Progressivism&#8220;. It is the most recommended and commented story on The Economist this week. We have looked at various forms of economic inequality on this Blog before, as well as other manifestations (market share, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=visualign.wordpress.com&#038;blog=23320506&#038;post=1284&#038;subd=visualign&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Changes in economic inequality over the last 30 years</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Global and national inequality levels (Source: The Economist)</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Changes in economic inequality over the last 30 years</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">World Map of national Gini values</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Gini of Latin America over the last 30 years</media:title>
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