“Bringing together leaders in visual thinking for the first time in one location, the VizThink ‘08 Conference (http://www.vizthink.com) is an opportunity for executives to understand ways of incorporating visualization processes into business, learning and communications strategies to gain faster and more effective results. Hosted by Portland, Ore. based VizThink LLC, the conference will include breakout sessions and forums facilitated by some of the most recognized names in the visual thinking space, including the distinguished Bob Horn from Stanford University, renowned author and artist Scott McCloud, award winning designer Nancy Duarte of Duarte Design, most notably known for her work in Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, and Nigel Holmes formerly with Time magazine. The conference will be held at the Westin San Francisco Market Street Hotel from January 27-29. Registration (http://www.vizthink.com/reg.html) is open now.”

“In 1970, The average CEO earned 28 times more than the average worker. Despite all the recent noise around reining in runaway CEO pay, the gap has widened drastically.”

“Do statistics tell the entire story? Managers must make effective use of the numbers they generate. Here are five tips to help ensure that you can rely on the numbers.”

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“The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) produces some interesting documents about things like the percentage of the population that can work, the percentage of that population that is employed and so on. Well, one document they produce is the Occupational Employment and Wages report. Basically it says how many people have what job and what they get paid. So I gathered the data from this chart and created this graph that shows how many people get paid what. Each dot represents a type of job.”

“These two top business schools will no longer provide BusinessWeek the opportunity to survey their graduating classes. Why? The deans basically say that rankings are crass and misleading. The real story, however, is quite different.”

“If you know a distinctive fact about a number not listed here, please e-mail me. Divisors, algebra, primes, sums of powers, powers/polygonal, matrices, graphs, combinatorics, Fibonacci, digits, perfect/amicable, bases, repdigits, geometry…”

“Can you share any guiding principals or ‘best practices’ in the presentation of Key Performance Indicators to the senior executives of a corporation?”

“Useful advice for creative business people — marketing, sales and other business ideas for the consultant, small business owner and entrepreneur.”

“As a special service to colleagues interested in consumer research and statistics, TaskZ.com has prepared a list of the top 10 sites dealing with this subject.”

“While large players and big media companies act like they are the main reason for the web and Internet and therefore should drive policy decisions, the numbers show that the contributions of the myriad of small players — individuals, non-profits, and small businesses — are crucial to the vitality of the web and its value to people.”

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“An illustrated chronology of innovations by Michael Friendly and Daniel J. Denis: The graphic portrayal of quantitative information has deep roots. These roots reach into histories of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization, which are intertwined with each other. They also connect with the rise of statistical thinking up through the 19th century, and developments in technology into the 20th century. From above ground, we can see the current fruit; we must look below to see the its pedigree and germination. There certainly have been many new things in the world of visualization; but unless you know its history, everything might seem novel.”

“At the retreat I went to the weekend before last, we were each asked to offer a word or small phrase that held special meaning for us. I’ll save my word for a later post, but I was particularly intrigued by Clay Shirky’s — ’small-world.’ Specifically, Clay expressed interest in the ’small-world phenomenon,’ which probably has it’s most popular expression in the notion of ’six degrees of separation’ and ‘Kevin Bacon is the center of the universe.’”

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