Category: Information Visualization

  • The only jobs that won’t be taken over by robots require understanding of human behavior

    Think You’re Special? A Robot Could Do Your Job fastcoexist.com Technology is advancing so fast that half of all jobs that exist today might be taken over by bots and computers in the next 20 years. Find out if your job is on the list. Is your job safe from our new computer-programmed over­lords? A…

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  • Twitter founder describes his theory of ECommerce algorithms

    Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online Ryan Tate, wired.com The co-creator of Twitter and Blogger has decided that “the internet is simply a giant machine designed to give people what they want.” Here’s what this grand unified theory means and where it came from. http://flip.it/noY5p Related articles A Grand Unified Economic Theory?…

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  • I have cancer, what’s your excuse?

    I have brain cancer. What’s your excuse? Ronnie Castro, venturebeat.com You may have caught the arti­cle by my friend and co-founder Matt Ehrlich­man last month, titled “My 32-year-old co-founder has a brain tumor — seri­ous­ly?“ To set the record straight, I’m 33 now, not quite old enough to start lying about my ag… http://flip.it/kTGHI Related…

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  • Workplace monitoring and email etiquette

    Does Your Boss Spy on You? ehow.com by Joanna Sloame(photo: Polka Dot RF/Polka Dot/Getty Images)The Answer’s Almost Always “Yes” — Here’s What You Should KnowEveryone knows that it’s a bad idea to complain about your boss on your company email, but most people have no idea t… http://flip.it/yHgIj

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  • Best websites for your career

    The Top 100 Websites For Your Career Jacquelyn Smith, forbes.com Last year we inau­gu­rat­ed our first-ever list of the best web­sites for your career. We took nom­i­na­tions from read­ers and combed through some 700 sites in order to com­pile our list of the top 75. This August we put out anoth­er call for… http://flip.it/2MIhK Related…

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  • Is Brooklyn the next Silicon Valley?

    Can Urban Planning Turn Brooklyn Into the Next Silicon Valley? Kyle VanHemert, wired.com WXY presents a smart vision for any city seeking to accommodate innovation. http://flip.it/rrvpO

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  • Big data exposes myths about good and bad hires

    (via Former convicts make bad employees—and other hiring myths big data expose – Quartz) Related articles How to Recruit and Retain the Best Talent – Part One Recruitment (douglasjacksonrecruitment.wordpress.com) Former Convincts Make Bad Employees–and Other Hiring Myths Exposed By Big Data (theatlantic.com)

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  • Why everyone is going freelance

    Why Everybody’s Going Freelance BY DRAKE BAER, fastcompany.com Whether they’re getting forced out of their jobs or freeing themselves from their organizations, 17 million Americans are going solo. Here’s what that means for the future of work. More Amer­i­cans are declar­ing their inde­pen­dence: as in the … http://flip.it/MIZgf

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  • Tear out your lawn and get rich

    Get Rich Quick by Tearing Up Your Lawn by Tim Layton, popularmechanics.com DIY Central moonlightbulb/Flickr If you live in Los Ange­les, you might be able to earn a few extra bucks and leave behind the dread­ed job of mow­ing the lawn in one fell swoop. The Los Ange­les Depart­ment of Water and Power (LADWP) h……

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  • Thrive with less

    Thrive with Less Christina Nellemann, tinyhouseblog.com Can you not only live, but thrive, with less? A group of six college students from Michigan decided to take some time out of what they felt were lives of excess to live more minimally. They filmed the lifestyle experiment last year and made it int… http://flip.it/uGijv Related articles…

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  • How the cloud is rescuing the freelance industry

    How the cloud is rescuing the $300 billion freelance industry from itself Rich Pearson, venturebeat.com Tick­ets On Sale Now Rich Pear­son is Chief Mar­ket­ing Offi­cer of Elance. The way that busi­ness­es recruit and man­age work­ers is under­go­ing a dra­mat­ic trans­for­ma­tion. A volatile econ­o­my and an increas­ing­ly… http://flip.it/gfsrb Related articles Elance unveils Private Talent Cloud to…

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