I decided I want spend my time in 2008 on more valuable, more relevant, less trivial stuff. As always with good intentions one never knows how long they will stick, but I'm going to give it a try. So let's kick off the year with something less worldly then cracked iPhones ...
A TED video I watched over the Christmas holidays sparked my interest for the Gapminder graphs. Since the beginning of my career I've been making the most sophisticate graphs to try and turn complex data series into one clear and simple image. These Gapminder graphs manage to combine five (yes FIVE!) dimensions into one clear and easy to use graphical representation. Check out this combination and see how Congo (the former Belgian Colony) has been doing over the past decades. I guess we don't really have a lot to be proud of ...
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We Epic Systems together with Beemode (www.beemode.com) have developed a Data Visualisation software ready to be released soon.
We are looking for ideas to promote the software.
You can view our preliminary version at :
www.epicsyst.com/visual.swf
Your comments will be appreciated.
Hisham Abdel Maguid
www.epicsyst.com
Here is another link for a project we did with Princeton University on US unemployment :
www.epicsyst.com/main3.swf
I hope you could evaluate it and give me your comments. So many ideas are there.
In a few days you can test the software by uploading data on our website and getting the corresponding Flash charts. This is for a limited number of users.
Regards.
Eng. Hisham Abdel Maguid
www.epicsyst.com
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