I got a little excited when Shirley Lincicum wrote to the NGC4Lib mail list:
[O]ne of the most frustrating things for me about Next Generation Catalog systems as they currently exist is that they seem wholly focused on the user interface and can, in fact, actually hold libraries back from designing or implementing improved “back end” [...]

Posted March 9, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: catalog, data, data sharing, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, next generation catalog, NGC, ngc4lib, response, sharing, Shirley Linicum. Be the first one.

Thanks to MetaFilter for pointing this out, and Matty, for putting it to good use.
Yes, you really can use this to make authoritative looking reports on anything.
esolutions, lies, statistics, data, pirates, ninjas, bullshit

Posted January 1, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: bullshit, data, esolutions, lies, ninjas, pirates, statistics. 26 Comments.

Eleta explained it this way, and credited it to R. David Lankes:
Your data:

Your metadata:

CANDY BAR, data, metadata, metaphor

Posted October 10, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: CANDY BAR, data, metadata, metaphor. 3 Comments.

I found the above image of a yFiles-generated site map at visualcomplexity.com.
We’ve seen a lot of internet diagrams, including this one from 1977, but what about mapping food? Or disaster situations? Or air routes?
It’s like data porn, and there’s more in the visualcomplexity gallery.

Posted March 9, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog, Technology. Tags: complex, complexity, data, data graphing, data representation, infographics, mapping, network map, visual, visual complexity, visualization. Be the first one.