Category: Information Visualization

  • Starting a Company? 8 Free Online Courses You Can’t Miss

    Julie Strickland, inc.com Inc.com staff Mar 19, 2013 Looking for new skills or insider know-how? Hop online and hone your expertise for free. Entre­pre­neur­ial edu­ca­tion is slow­ly but sure­ly becom­ing more main­stream. Tra­di­tion­al uni­ver­si­ties are offer­in… Starting a Company? 8 Free Online Courses You Can’t Miss http://flip.it/oxJH8 http://flip.it/KgYxc Starting a Company? 8 Free Online Courses…

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  • Write a good bio

    The Art Of Writing Your Own Bio: How To Toot Your Horn Without Sounding Like A Blowhard By Jonathan Rick, fastcompany.com The problem with your bio isn’t the boasting—it’s who’s doing the boasting. After col­lege, I did what most lib­er­al arts grads do when they come to Wash­ing­ton: I interned at a think tank. As…

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  • App academy: free tuition until you get a job

    Startups | Tuition at Learn-to-Code Boot Camp Is Free — Until You Get a Job Marcus Wohlsen, wired.com One school in one of the hottest hiring markets in the country is flipping the script on student loans: Until you get a job, you don’t pay. Marcus Wohlsen Tuition at Learn-to-Code Boot Camp Is Free —…

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  • Virgin carries iPhone 5,contract free

    With opening of LTE on Virgin, the pre-paid wireless company is now ready for the iPhone 5 Élyse Betters, 9to5mac.com Vir­gin Mobile USA, a sub­sidiary of Sprint Nex­tel Cor­po­ra­tion, began offer­ing LTE today, which sig­nif­i­cant­ly means the car­ri­er could now carry the iPhone 5 along with its par­ent com­pa­ny. Vir­gin now car­ries the iPhone 4…

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  • Switch from Mint to Pageonce?

    I Switched from Mint.com to Pageonce. Maybe You Should Too. Wade Roush, xconomy.com Wade RoushFor more than a decade, I was a faithful user of Quicken, Intuit’s desktop personal finance program. I stopped using it in 2008 after Mint.com came along, giving me the ability to monitor all my accounts from one simple, attractiv… http://flip.it/Up8PU…

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  • The data science of chores

    The Difference Between a Happy Marriage and Miserable One: Chores Wendy Klein, Carolina Izquierdo, & Thomas N. Bradbury, theatlantic.com Couples who don’t have a system for household tasks can get really resentful, really quickly. A look at the results of an in-depth study of middle-class families. Between 2001 and 2004, a team of UCLA researchers…

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  • The best U.S. cities to be a freelancer

    Channtal Fleischfresser, smartplanet.com Which U.S. cities have the highest proportions of independent workers, and where do they earn the highest wages? Channtal Fleischfresser RT @core77: I was definitely surprised by this map of “The best U.S. cities to be a freelancer” – http://flip.it/UxCJb http://flip.it/hiP5i The best U.S. cities to be a freelancer

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  • Career success for introverted makers

    How to Use Introversion for Career and Personal Success Alice Boyes, lifehacker.com Introversion isn’t a flaw. In fact, introverts are powerful players in work and home life. Here, psychologist Alice Boyes shares how to use your natural personality traits towards success.Develop a Positive Overall View of Your Temperament … How to Use Introversion for Career…

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  • Achieving inbox zero with Mailstrom

    How I Went From 1,000 Emails to Inbox Zero (and Stayed There) with Mailstrom Adam Dachis, lifehacker.com Inbox zero: it’s the impossible dream that gets further and further away as you let your emails pile up, but you don’t have to get stuck with the clutter. Thanks to an awesome webapp called Mailstrom, I finally…

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  • Why You Need to Stop Being So Nice

    Jessica Stillman, inc.com START IT UP For some entrepreneurs, prioritizing yourself can be one of the biggest challenges. Here’s how to learn to say no and set boundaries. Help­ing oth­ers, shar­ing, being kind: These are the sorts of val­ues that have been instilled i… RT @Inc: Why you need to stop being so nice: http://flip.it/K3dL7…

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  • Your email address and your brand

    What Your Email Says About Your Brand By Jonathan Rick, fastcompany.com Do you cringe when you see a Hotmail address? Laugh at terrible email signatures? It’s time to take a closer look at email as a branding opportunity; here are some of the best and the worst. It’s some­thing you take for grant­ed, some­thing… RT…

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