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		<title>The Electoral Vote Race</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Electoral-Vote.com is an excellent and popular site for tracking polls for president on a state by state basis. One of the nice features is a historical graph that shows the changing number of electoral votes for each candidate over the election season. 
Currently it looks something like this:

(click to see the original on electoral-vote.com)
Just for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2008/06/29/the-electoral-vote-race/</link>
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		<title>Pixel rulers in Visio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Should you be required to work in Visio, you may well find yourself, as I did, wishing to measure your drawing in pixels. I couldn’t figure out how do do it, though Visio does support such diverse measurements as Ciceros and Didots.
I finally found the definitive answer from Microsoft: For some types of drawings, you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2008/06/01/pixel-rulers-in-visio/</link>
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		<title>Harvard Business Review on infovis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Harvard Business Review has published an article by researchers from IBM&#8217;s Many Eyes project, discussing the benefits of good information visualization. 
A choice quote:
Our research has found that the compelling presentation of data through visualization’s advanced techniques generates a surprising volume of impassioned conversations&#8230; That level of engagement could foster the kind of grassroots [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2008/05/05/harvard-business-review-on-infovis/</link>
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		<title>Video of my Ignite talk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the talk I gave at Ignite Seattle 5, February 19, 2008. Note that the Ignite format requires presenting 20 slides in 5 minutes, with the slides advancing every 15 seconds whether the presenter is ready or not. The original name for this format was &#8220;Ask Later.&#8221;



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		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2008/04/29/video-of-my-ignite-talk/</link>
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		<title>Zillow diagram of market segment value changes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zillow has posted a series of excellent diagrams which show relative changes in assorted housing markets, broken down by segment. Their diagrams are very clear and allow fairly quick access to a lot of good information. Please go explore there, and then come back here for my commentary. 
By my count, there are eight different [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2008/04/04/zillow-diagram-of-market-segment-value-changes/</link>
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		<title>Humorous pop-culture visuals: Song Charts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I was just introduced to the Song Chart group group on Flickr. It&#8217;s full of visualizations of song lyrics. Many are clever, many are hilarious. This is my contribution.

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		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2008/03/07/humorous-pop-culture-visuals-song-charts/</link>
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		<title>Group interview at VizThink</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeff Parks led a discussion about the conference and visual thinking in industry among a few of us at VizThink in January. 
It&#8217;s now posted at Boxes and Arrows. He notes that the iTunes version lets you jump among the chapters using the Chapters menu.

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		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2008/03/05/group-interview-at-vizthink/</link>
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		<title>Podcast: Interviewed by Tom Crawford of VizThink</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a podcast/webinar of me being interviewed by Tom Crawford, who runs the VizThink conference. He asked some good questions. It was a lot of fun.
There&#8217;s a video version showing the example diagrams, as well as an audio-only version.

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		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2008/02/21/podcast-interviewed-by-tom-crawford-of-vizthink/</link>
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		<title>Presenting at Ignite Seattle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Tuesday, February 19th, I&#8217;ll be one of several presenters at Ignite Seattle. Come if you can; it will be a good time.

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		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2008/02/16/presenting-at-ignite-seattle/</link>
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		<title>Multi-touch: Why the iPhone Matters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The multi-touch interface represents the first major interface change since the introduction of the Macintosh GUI in 1984, and a notable shift in the right direction.]]></description>
		<link>http://complexdiagrams.com/2008/01/28/multi-touch-why-the-iphone-matters/</link>
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