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Udacity – The Future of < Online > Education?

Sebastian Thrun of Stanford AI Class fame (you know the largest class in human history with 160,000 participants) has just left his tenure track position to start an online university – Udacity. Here is an article about Udacity and here is … Continue reading

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Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a Bad Idea [via TED]

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Thoughts on the State of American Legal Education – The New York Times Editorial Edition

(1) The NYT Sort of Gets It – The Market for Legal Services Meets The Market for Legal Education I am a bit torn by all of this. In general, I think the NY Times should be commended for its … Continue reading

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Steve Jobs [via 60 Minutes]

See also Steve Jobs: Part 2 [via 60 Minutes]

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Estimating U.S. Government Subsidies to Energy Sources (02-08) [From Environmental Law Institute]

Click above to access visual and for the Full Report entitled Estimating U.S. Government Subsidies to Energy Sources: 2002-2008 click here! [HT: Barry Ritholtz @ The Big Picture]

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The Evolution of FCC Lobbying Coalitions [Pierre de Vries]

Social graphs of FCC lobbying The Journal of Social Structure is currently running an online visualization symposium that I would suggest checking out.  Among the broader set of offerings, the readers of this blog might be particularly interested in Pierre … Continue reading

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Cash for Clunkers – Visualization and Analysis

Cash for Clunkers: A Dynamic Map of the Cash Allowance Rebate Systems (CARS) Some Background on the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS) From the official July 27, 2009 press release – “The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) also released … Continue reading

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Real Time Visualization of US Patent Data [Via Infosthetics]

Using data dating back to 2005 and updating weekly using information from data.gov the Typologies of Intellectual Property project created by information designer Richard Vijgen offers almost real time visualization of US Patent Data. From the documentation … “[T]ypologies of … Continue reading

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Cash for Clunkers Infographic [From Good]

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OpenSecrets Open Data! – Visualizing the Publicly Traded Assets of Senators in 2007

OpenSecrets.org went open with their data today.  In honor of this very significant act and its ramifications on future government transparency, I’ve decided to produce a quick visualization to answer a question I’ve long been intrigued by – the publicly … Continue reading

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Senators of the 110th Congress Take 2-Contributions by Industry/Sector

To view the full image, please click here.   This represents a deeper cut on campaign contributions to the Senators of 110th Congress. Again, we rely upon data from the Center for Responsive Politics.  The CRP aggregates contribution data up … Continue reading

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