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In Data Visualization: Answer added in topic Data. Mon Apr 04 2011 06:43:29 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) • 3 Answers •
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Jérôme Cukier
this depends on what you are trying to show.

using color to combine the two markers is probably not going to work. (see http://www.visualisingdata.com/i... for a discussi... (more)
Question added to topic Data. Fri Apr 01 2011 15:35:23 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) • 0 Answers •
Answer added in topic Data. Fri Apr 01 2011 01:17:37 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) • 4 Answers •
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Stefan Knecht
At least for the US, Google Maps cancelled its Tele Atlas contract to produce their own geodata stack (see http://www.readwriteweb.com/arch... and http://techcrunch.com/200... (more)
Answer added in topic Data. Thu Mar 31 2011 16:00:24 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) • 5 Answers •
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Tom Bullock
I think more information is necessary before advice can be given. For example what is the volume of user data available? What category/categories does it fall under? Wha... (more)
Answer added in topic Data. Thu Mar 31 2011 15:51:43 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) • 5 Answers •
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Philip Bryant
I also checked out http://byallaccounts.com Their product is for RIAs or Family offices. Getting started is a mid-range 4 figure number, but then they charge a double-digi... (more)
In Data Visualization: Answer added in topic Data. Thu Mar 31 2011 11:00:49 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) • 3 Answers •
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Kevin Fox
Only use color for one of the variables. Depending on the relationship of the variables (for example, value vs intensity) you could use size as the other attribute. An exam... (more)
In Data Visualization: Answer added in topic Data. Thu Mar 31 2011 10:48:55 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) • 3 Answers •
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John Kuo
Well, I would think it would depend on why you want to overlay the maps. Certainly if is meaningful under some circumstances: if you want to show some relationship or inte... (more)
In Infochimps (company): Answer added in topic Data. Thu Mar 31 2011 09:55:31 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) • 3 Answers •
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Nick Ducoff, I am CEO and a co-founder of Inf...
Our platform is optimized for publishing data to two end points: 1) API and 2) downloadable file. There is clearly articulated demand for data that does not need to reside ... (more)
In Infochimps (company): Answer added in topic Data. Thu Mar 31 2011 09:33:52 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) • 3 Answers •
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Dennis Yang
Nope, not at all.

Though it's true that we recently launched a whole slew of awesome APIs, bulk download is an integral part of the Infochimps experience, and will contin... (more)
dailymile (http://www.dailymile.com/login?n...) comes to mind as an engaging service that avoids the impression that data is intimidating.

What are some other services that make data so fun to in... (more)
Question added to topic Data. Thu Mar 31 2011 01:37:52 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) • 0 Answers •
Answer added in topic Data. Wed Mar 30 2011 23:42:18 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) • 12 Answers •
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Vincent Granville
Start analyzing large data sets freely available on the web. For instance, I created a keyword volume and price forecaster by gathering keyword data from the Google And Mic... (more)
In Infochimps (company): Answer added in topic Data. Wed Mar 30 2011 20:25:26 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) • 3 Answers •
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Shion Deysarkar
Maybe for Infochimps, but I don't think this is generally true. We have bulk data purchased from our Marketplace several times each month.

I think several companies in th... (more)
The public datasets on InfoChimps' catalog is a mixed bag with no apparent quality control. I uploaded http://www.infochimps.com/datase... several days ago and it's still in the directory. Meanwhil... (more)
In Infochimps (company): Question added to topic Data. Wed Mar 30 2011 18:23:13 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) • 3 Answers •
In Data Visualization: Question added to topic Data. Wed Mar 30 2011 18:09:33 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) • 3 Answers •
Answer added in topic Data. Wed Mar 30 2011 18:06:02 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) • 5 Answers •
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Pete Forde, Co-Founder of BuzzData
Serious question: why assume that profiting from your data is the direct result of selling it to someone?

As Eugene Osovetsky and Michelle Greer point out, the infrastruct... (more)
Answer added in topic Data. Wed Mar 30 2011 15:52:37 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) • 5 Answers •
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Michelle Greer
Disclosure: I work for Infochimps.

The advantage of using our service is two fold:
1.) People are looking for data when they come to us already.... (more)
Answer added in topic Data. Wed Mar 30 2011 04:39:41 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) • 2 Answers •
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Patrik Johansson
You can read all about the possibilities on our cool developer's site here:
http://developer.tradeshift.com
I have several thousand entries on Movie Collector, but I have grown to really dislike collectorz. I recent upgraded to the newest trial version and stupidly saved my master file in the new versio... (more)
Question added to topic Data. Mon Mar 28 2011 22:31:37 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) • 0 Answers •
Answer added in topic Data. Mon Mar 28 2011 12:32:27 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) • 1 Answer •
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Brian Gupton
Answering my own question here. According to eMarketer (http://www.emarketer.com/Reports...), 133 million Americans will make purchases online in 2011. I'm still looking fo... (more)
In Twitter Firehose: Answer added in topic Data. Mon Mar 28 2011 12:26:01 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) • 1 Answer •
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Robin Sundberg
I guess building a scalable polling system, which to start with received a mixed response but being one of the first in a undiscovered place. There first model seemed a lit... (more)

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