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”The greatest danger is that you forget what amazed and excited you about your field. I was talking to a particle scientist after I had read about how electrons can go from one orbit to another without travelling across the space in between. I said, ‘Isn’t that amazing?’, and he replied, ‘Anything that happens in the quantum world is amazing.’ In fact, everything that happens anywhere is amazing if you stop and consider it.
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[Flash 10 is required to watch video]
From the 99% Conference (which I was lobbying to go to this year but couldn’t make it in the end), Ji Lee talks about the transformative power of personal projects.
Big takeaways:
- Personal and professional projects complement each other.
- Creating platforms is powerful.
- Time is a concept which can be stretched.
- Sharing is rewarding.
Great stuff in here for anyone who’s looking to pursue more personal projects but wondering just how to go about doing that.
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I’m not one to talk about work very often, but I did want to tell you all about the launch of Google’s Public Data Explorer yesterday.
The new product in Google Labs lets you access datasets from organizations like the World Bank, the OECD, the US Census Bureau, and others, to visualize data related to a variety of topics. The World Bank datasets that are available are a subset of the World Development Indicators, and contain data from over 40 years on key global indicators like GDP, fertility rates, debt, and CO2 emissions.
If you work with data, or use data to illustrate and support your work, this new Google labs visualization tool is going to help, a lot. Promise. Check it out when you get the chance. Even if you don’t work with data, the motion graphs are mighty fun to watch.
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I use Google Docs quite extensively for my work and for my volunteer engagements — it is a perfect document collaboration tool. The new changes they rolled out yesterday make the tool even better, and will hopefully make it easier for me to convince all my coworkers to switch over and stop sending documents by email attachment.
