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Knowledge Management

In: Reference

22 Dec 2016

Interesting diagram and article on knowledge management.

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2016 Election Info

In: Interactive Politics Reference

2 Nov 2016

I love how people will spend hours reading yelp to find the best tacos in town, searching for the cheapest flights for their next vacation, looking for costume accessories on etsy, comparing reviews of their next phone upgrade or amazon purchase, yet base their vote for leader of the free world on facebook rants and memes. The reviews are in. The information is available. Go read it. I will try to post some well designed site and tools to help below.

Vote411
Find personalized info on your voting locations, view down-ticket matchups, and any referendum items.

Ballotpedia

FiveThirtyEight
Want to know how the latest polls look? 538 has the most reliable analysis

Draw Your Own Electoral Map (CNN)
Try your own hand at allocating electoral votes.

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Distant Relations

In: Culture Reference

17 Feb 2015

I always get confused by this shit. I grew up with my dads cousins kids and can never remember how to reference their relationship.

Flowingdata also has a version:

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Is it Worth the Time to be More Efficient?

In: Reference Science

29 Apr 2013

More awesomeness from xkcd. It needs a third axis to factor in how annoying the task is.

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Facebook Image Dimensions

In: Internet/tech Reference

29 Apr 2013

I am always googling these, so it’s nice to have them all in one place. Of course, they will probably change in a week. Here’s an older one that includes sizes for additional services (google+, twitter, youtube, etc). Anyone know of a permanent repository?

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Population Clock

In: Global Economy Reference

15 Apr 2013

Some basic demographic data on the United States and the World. Besides being able to drill down into the numbers several different ways there are a couple of interactive charts – like the population pyramid where you can watch the baby boomer bulge move over the years.

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Kitchen Conversion Chart

In: Food Reference

2 Apr 2013

Very nice and intuitive, from sblattindesign.

They also have one on knives:

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The Big Numbers

In: Graphic Design (bad) Reference

12 Jan 2012

Some of the data points here are interesting, but I think it throws together too many different data types. Mass fatalities count as “Human Gatherings”?!? The colors are beyond drab, and the spiral just adds to the confusion. In summary: Ick.

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Gold

In: Global Economy Maps Reference

12 Jan 2012

Some pretty interesting facts about gold.

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Worst Times to Drive

In: Reference

16 Nov 2011

We could probably critique a few things here, but it’s so nice to see an infoposter where they actually put in a lot of useful data – in charts! – that I think we can let those slide.

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Used Car Prices

In: Innovative Reference

22 Jun 2011

Daniel Rathbone created this tool to aggregate used car prices from Craigslist. Besides being a useful way to shop for cars, it’s also interesting to see how different brands and models hold up in value over time. For example, check out the Accord vs Corvette below.