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Choose the right chart / Scegli il grafico giusto

(EN) When you are going to transform a bunch of data in a clear infographic, one of the first things to understand is which kind of representation is the best one to clarify the data you are dealing with. Designers of Extreme Presentations made this useful flowchart helping us decide which direction to take. And it’s available also in chinese! ———- (IT) Quando stai per trasformare un blocco di dati in un’infografica chiarificatrice, una delle prime cose da capire è quale sia il miglior modo per rappresentarli. I designers di Extreme Presentations hanno creato una flowchart per aiutarci a decidere in quale direzione andare. Ed è disponibile anche in cinese :D! (via flowingdata)

Banning social networking / Bannare il social networking

(EN) I work for a web agency and the other day my boss decided to ban Facebook after some articles appeared on italian newspapers talking about how many people in Italy subscribed to the social networking site and used it during working hours. But do you know what I was working on just days before? A facebook campaign to be proposed to one of our clients. It’s not the first one that we do. We build funny applications that are accepted and propagate virally among a high number of facebook users (last campaign was seen by 110,000 people in Italy). Probably he didn’t even know about it. Anyway, I think the problem is that managers move from a company to another without knowing the dynamic of the industry where they work. Their main aim is to make money, to rationalize and organize, and who cares about what the company does. It just doesnt work, and this financial crisis should advise

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