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	<title>Complex Diagrams</title>
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	<description>Making the Complex Accessible: Information Visualization and Interaction Design by Noah Iliinsky</description>
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		<title>Organic growth of a social network</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This movie reveals more knowledge by showing not only which individuals know each other, but also when and how the social network formed, by calling out the contexts and individuals responsible for an introduction between two new friends. Visually representing more complexity allows the viewer a deeper understanding of the social dynamics and causalities involved. ]]></description>
		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2010/01/24/organic-growth-of-a-social-network/</link>
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		<title>Working on Beautiful Visualization book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very excited to announce that I&#8217;m technical editor for, and contributing a chapter to, the book Beautiful Visualization, due out in April from O&#8217;Reilly. 
It is a collection of case studies and articles discussing how various beautiful information visualizations were achieved and how to create your own.
Stay tuned for updates as events warrant. 
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		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2009/12/16/bvbook/</link>
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		<title>UI FAIL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;S/R products fall into several broad categories, and they are divided this way on the site. The categories are accessible via the pulldown menu in the upper-right hand part of this page below the header bar. An explanation of the categories is below.&#8221;
Unfortunately, you can&#8217;t click anywhere below to get to the categories explained there, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2009/04/08/ui-fail/</link>
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		<title>Tire selection chart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Closing comments on this post, as it&#8217;s attracting a lot of spam. I&#8217;ll likely re-open it later.
This is a short story of user experience, information visualization, and design choices. I like Rivendell Bicycle Works for a lot of reasons (see below). However, one thing they don&#8217;t do particularly well is allow you to compare products [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2009/03/12/tire-chart/</link>
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		<title>VizThink wrap-up and notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[VizThink &#8216;09 was awesome. I&#8217;ve come back exhausted, energized, and inspired, with a load of new ideas. 
Thanks to everyone who presented, who attended my sessions, who asked good questions in all situations, who I talked with and listed to and shared meals with. It was a fantastic time. Special thanks goes out to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2009/02/26/vizthink09/</link>
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		<title>Bourbon-molasses Supernatural Brownie recipe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[I'm justifying posting a recipe here with the thinking that good food is a good user experience.]
These are my favorite brownies. The recipe is shamelessly stolen (and modified) from the The New York Times and The Splendid Table. See those sites for advice on using baking parchment, fancy unpanning, adding nuts (blasphemy!) or frosting, etc. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2009/02/12/brownies/</link>
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		<title>Follow me on Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you on Twitter, you can find me at @noahi. Please say hi! I tweet about a wider variety of topics than I post about here. 
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		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2009/02/10/twitter/</link>
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		<title>Bike map legends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a straightforward case of two different agencies presenting similar information in different ways, one with better design choices and one with more arbitrary, less useful choices. Both King County and the City of Seattle (where I live) publish regional bike maps with markings for bike lanes and trails. Compare how they are encoded. 
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2009/02/05/bike-map-legends/</link>
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		<title>Clarifying a graph</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A JK Galbraith column at Mother Jones includes the following graph, with this caption: What a dollar of stimulus puts back into the economy when spent on&#8230;

There are two related ways in which this graph fails to serve its purpose. The first is that the colors fail to add any value. Alternating the rows is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2009/01/23/clarifying-a-graph/</link>
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		<title>Configuring IMAP for Gmail, Mail.app, and iPhone (and iPod touch)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is possible to configure Gmail and Apple's Mail application to appropriately delete messages from Gmail when they are deleted in Mail. These instructions also show how to store all drafts and saved messages on the Gmail server, and how to configure your iPhone for the same behaviors.
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		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2009/01/19/imap-for-gmail-mailapp-iphone/</link>
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