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Category Archives: infoviz
New visualization: investment across borders
I was asked by the ICE team at MaRS to produce a map to illustrate a connection that’s often not understood by entrepreneurs: that Canadian companies that are acquired from abroad typically also have foreign investors. It’s a simple map … Continue reading
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New data visualization: Canadian VC co-investment
The MaRS Data Catalyst team has been diving into data on private equity deals, to better understand the patterns of investments in Canadian companies. Last week Joseph Lalonde published the first in a series of blog posts on the subject: … Continue reading
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Notes from my talk on visualization for non-profits
Last night I spoke at the Toronto Net Tuesday event about visualization for non-profits. Thanks to those who came out, my co-presenter Justin Malecki from ClearSky Advisors, and the organizers, TechSoup Canada. Here are the links I showed, and my notes:
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Speaking: Toronto Net Tuesday
[Update: The notes from my talk are posted here: http://gabesawhney.com/?p=234] On April 17th I’ll be doing an intro to information visualization for (primarily) non-profits at Toronto Net Tuesday: Does your organization collect a lot of data? What are you doing with … Continue reading
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Visualizing Twitter clusters with gephi (update)
[This update on my Twitter cluster visualization project is also the final report for the independent study I've been doing on infoviz. I'll definitely pick up this work again soon, but not in the next couple of weeks. A previous … Continue reading
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Visualizing twitter clusters with gephi: walkthrough
I like step-by-step walkthroughs. They’re task-oriented and context-specific, not universal like conventional documentation. They’re good because no matter what it is I’m doing, someone else has certainly done it before. They’re also good, because when I take the time to … Continue reading
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