Monday, 10. April 12017
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Why Japan's Rail Workers Can't Stop Pointing at Things.

Known in Japanese as shisa kanko, pointing-and-calling works on the principle of associating one’s tasks with physical movements and vocalizations to prevent errors by “raising the consciousness levels of workers”—according to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Japan. Rather than rely on a worker’s eyes or habit alone, each step in a given task is reinforced physically and audibly to ensure the step is both complete and accurate.

«Meine Schwester und ihre Tochter sind tot.»

In den USA sind es die Knarren, in Deutschland die Karren.

Die zivilrechtliche- und Schmerzensgeldklage der hinterbliebenen Familie wurde vor wenigen Tagen abgewiesen, da die in Deutschland geltende Richtgeschwindigkeit von 130 km/h keine ist, nach der sich deutsche Autofahrer richten müssen.

Online graphics – explore winners of the 25th Malofiej International Infographics Awards.

Content Freedom.

LBRY – watch, read and play in a decentralized digital library controlled by the community.

What you see is what you get.

CycleGAN is a software that can generate photos from paintings, turn horses into zebras, perform style transfer, and more.

Thursday, 6. April 12017
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Not sure Stephen Few likes his name being so close to “Data Scientist”…*

If Data Visualization is So Hot, Why Are People Leaving?

The death of interactive infographics?

“If you make a tooltip or rollover, assume no one will ever see it.”

Relevant: In Defense of Interactive Graphics

fm4.ORF.at ist neu.

The Maps We Wandered Into As Kids.

If I ruled the world, or at least a publishing company, all books would contain as much supplementary information as possible. Nonfiction, fiction — doesn’t matter.

Wednesday, 5. April 12017
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Carsten Jost: Perishable Tactics.