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July 2009 - Posts

• Maps, user generated content, and the cholera outbreak of 1854

  I’ve been thinking a lot about maps lately. I like maps. I like the aesthetic of maps, but I realise that as with any worthwhile data visualisation a map that does not convey useful information, a map that does not have purpose, is little more than wallpaper. Read More... Posted 22 July 2009 17:01 by dean.wilson | 1 Comments Filed under: Experience Planning, epidemology, maps, UGC, disease, Henry Whitehead, Dr John Snow, cholera, data visualisation, mapping, 1854

• Chris Anderson talks Free at the ICA

  Yesterday lunchtime I went along to the ICA to listen to Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail, talk about his new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price. The book is already causing waves. Anderson’s Conde Nast stable Read More... Posted 03 July 2009 10:02 by dean.wilson | 0 Comments Filed under: Experience Planning, Books, Chris Anderson, Free, Malcolm Gladwell, Review, Event, Economics, ICA