Monthly Archives: October 2013

how to create an iPad video kiosk

I was recently tasked with building an iPad floor display that would loop a series of video clips indefinitely in a public place. Surprisingly, it’s not very obvious how to do this, and the third-party applications for looping video don’t

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movement of new yorkers over 24 hours

Visualization based on check-ins from Foursquare, a location-based social network.

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teen birthrate vs. abstinence-only education and income

 

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the cost of excessive alcohol use in Wisconsin

A “sobering” report recently published from the University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute pegs the annual economic cost of excessive alcohol use at Wisconsin $6.8 billion. Here are the numbers on Dane County alone: Full report: http://uwphi.pophealth.wisc.edu/publications/other/burden-of-excessive-alcohol-use-in-wi.pdf

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Internet Explorer use vs. murder rate

Just sayin’…

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really, Microsoft?

This is what I get for selecting “[none]” watermark in Microsoft Office’s Print dialogue box…

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visualizing digital information storage volumes

I saw that 4 terabyte 3.5″ hard disks have recently become available for $169, which made me ruminate on how much data that actually is, and how far storage density has come. My first few computers used 1.44MB floppy disks,

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