Climatology – Microsoft Research

Android: Travelling in the near future? Microsoft has created a new Android app to tell users what the weather is like in some part of the world in any month of the year. The app has a simple and easy interface, and is a good companion for frequent travellers, especially for sharing information.
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Why We Hate Infographics And Why You Should

hen in the early 90’s, hipsters of that time decided that graphs weren’t cool enough, and called them charts. On an unrelated note, charts started being printed on regular printers, and boredom killed millions of interns. Then in the mid-00’s, the art of plotting/graphing/charting data was re-named… data visualization. The course of mankind was changed forever, or at least for the next decade. On the same unrelated note, as data visualizations went online, surfing the web dramatically decreased the interns mortality rate.So here it is: ‘data visualization’ is the new cool name for ‘chart’. And that’s what we do at qunb: we help people tell compelling stories with their own data by instantly letting them create simple, meaningful, interactive charts.But in the early 10’s, infographics emerged, and the man in the street started getting confused: “Well, he said, is infographics the new new new name for charts”?

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