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What You Need to Know About Manufacturing Writing

Plastic injection molding. Horizontal and vertical machining. Electrical discharge machining (EDM). Stamping. RPM. Spind(...)

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Mar 10, 12 | 2 min read

4 Steps to Viral, Or How to Create Infographics That Blow up the Web

Infographics have been growing like weeds in our content garden for the past few years. Some are beautiful and enlighten(...)

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Mar 1, 12 | 5 min read

Let’s Get Cyclical: Four Ways to Visualize Periodicity

Visualizations can be very good at helping us spot patterns in data. Often, these patterns are periodic; most often repe(...)

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Feb 29, 12 | 4 min read

Setting Freelance Rates

What are your rates? How much do you charge for a blog post? $15 per page? $50? $125? Do you charge by the hour or by th(...)

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Feb 23, 12 | 4 min read

How to Turn a Static Visualization Into a Successful Animation

Liz Burow teaches information design and collaborative design studios at Parsons School of Design in New York, NY. Short(...)

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Feb 22, 12 | 4 min read

Medieval Tips for Modern Letter Writing

If you need to craft a particularly effective email, say to get your girlfriend to forgive your latest mistake, the best(...)

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Feb 18, 12 | 3 min read

From Data to Story: Dissecting a Well-Made Visualization

Last week, Visual.ly published a blog post by Drew Skau, containing a Code of Ethics for data visualization, and ending (...)

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Feb 17, 12 | 3 min read

Using Selections in D3 to Make Data-Driven Visualizations

D3 is a new tool for designers and programmers working on creating interactive visualizations out of large data sets. We(...)

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Feb 15, 12 | 1 min read

14 Things We Love About Data Visualization

When you work with data visualizations all day every day, it is very easy to end up in a relationship with them (some re(...)

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Feb 15, 12 | 1 min read