by Amanda Shendruk on October 24, 2012
I’ve had a few crazy busy months (hence the lack of recent updates), but I’m officially a Maclean’s blogger now! I’ve been given free reign to visually represent the statistics that provide context to news stories of the day. Check it out here: Show and Tell. I’ve also been doing a lot of programming. I [...]
by Amanda Shendruk on May 3, 2012
Size does matter: The bigger the data set, the better! A recent posting by Dominic Basulto on Big Think suggests the culture that brought us the metrosexual is back at it – offering us more complex and strange orientations with which to identify. And the newest mashup is the datasexual: “The datasexual looks a lot [...]
by Amanda Shendruk on May 3, 2012
Apparently recruiters only spend six seconds looking at your resume, so TheLadders (a career advice agency) developed a study to take the guess work out of creating the perfect piece of self promotion. Using eyetracking equipment, the organization followed the eyes of 30 recruiters for 10 weeks, and developed a heat map that visualizes where [...]