I was recently invited along with other Microsofties – Derrick Wheeler, Alex Volk and Duane Forrester to present at the Pubcon 2012 conference in Vegas. It was great event, with many awesome sessions, a great diversity of fascinating people and… Read more ›
This post provides an example Excel spreadsheet download, along with an explanation of how we analyzed the Search Engine traffic to a set of web pages on our websites. At first glance, the Excel sheet below appears to be a… Read more ›
Just found this cool visualization of wireless data… (Click the image to view full screen) The key points to this visualization… Each color represents a different wireless network The left to right direction represents time The vertical ‘height’ of the… Read more ›
There are a couple of things I would like to highlight in this post… The ability of this infographic for getting online visibility for the localization company who produced it (their details are referenced at the bottom) The effectiveness of… Read more ›
A recent blog post from Bing presented some data related to the Bing vs. Google ‘blind taste’ type test, states that people chose Bing web search results over Google nearly 2 to 1. They summarized this great result with a… Read more ›
Cartodb is a service which allows powerful and beautiful visualization of location based data. It’s free to use for small amounts of data and has tiered pricing structures for more complicated work. Torque is a library which allows creation of… Read more ›
Jer Thorp is a ‘Data Artist’ (now that’s a COOL job title!) at the New York Times. He recently shared this amazing and beautiful visualization of Twitter data called ‘Cascades’… The following video explains in more detail how Jer created… Read more ›
We have recently started playing around with a number of network graph visualization tools which allow to visualize and explore connections between different types of data nodes. It’s an extremely powerful way of exploring HUGE sets of data and using… Read more ›
…simple words, but priceless 6 O’clock am Tuesday morning I woke up in my downtown Seattle hotel room, walked in to my bathroom and had a shower to get ready for work. However, my morning routine was interrupted when I… Read more ›
Up until last week, I thought that the best place to watch a sunrise (or sunset) was on a warm beach, with feet buried in the sand. Last Friday I woke up in Washington state to the most amazing, calm,… Read more ›
After an excitable hour of getting ready, eating breakfast and watching the BBC build up, I headed off to the train to meet Jo and Ed. We had chosen to head to Hyde Park, as they were setting up large… Read more ›
Yesterday, the 29th April 2011, was the date for the Royal wedding of William and Kate. We decided to brave the crowds and head to London to part of the experience. My story of getting up and motivated is worth… Read more ›
I was trying to find info about the BA lounge in Antigua before I came out here, but could not find any. On arrival, I discovered why – it’s only been here for 2 days! Previously it was before security,… Read more ›
After a night of parting in Jost Van Dyke we headed back to the beach to get breakfast. The girls chose a bar where we had ended up the night before… We turned up at ‘Corsairs’ at 8:40 and were… Read more ›
Morning 4 waking up on the boat was just as beautiful as the rest. The sun and shade would alternate on the breakfast table at the back of the boat as we drift around on our buoy. I distinctly remember… Read more ›
I woke up to a strange sight during the early hours of morning 5 – glowing insects crawling all over my dad! At first I just sat there watching them, partly in fright, partly out of curiosity. I then wondered… Read more ›
The morning of day 3 of sailing involved a trip to Went to Leverick Bay to get some supplies (milk, bread, coke, gin, etc…) It was pretty much a ghost town when we arrived, with most of the shops and… Read more ›
The only full day we had in Antigua started off well with a tasty breakfast the Coconut Beach bar. Fresh fruit and pancakes reminded me of being in Thailand, and also provided plenty of energy for the rest of the… Read more ›
We had a fairly easy start on the first morning of sailing, with a late lazy breakfast, some time to chill whilst we waited for the boats to be prepared and a laid back boat briefing from the charter company. … Read more ›
My 2011 sailing trip with my dad and some other Microsofties started with a flight to Antigua, where we spent a couple of days before catching a connecting flight to Tortola. The flight was longer than expected due to some… Read more ›
I REALLY don’t mind having to spend a weekend in Redmond when it’s during ski season! No detailed write up, just some good action video footage – including one of me wiping out (I am going to deny responsibility and… Read more ›
Randomly during a walk on the beach to find somewhere to eat one night, we discovered the Coca Garden Beach resort, to the north of Ban Tai beach. Whilst we were initially planning on having dinner and heading back for… Read more ›
When visiting the east side of Railay during the day, we were a little disappointed by the low tide, muddy beach and mess of stranded Mango trees spread along the coast line. The miss mash of bars, shops and restaurants… Read more ›
Whilst it should be full of hung over people, desperately trying to get on to one of the few wait list spots for the full internal flights, it’s not. In fact it’s one of the most relaxing places we have… Read more ›
According to the Wiki travel article about Railay, Phra Nang beach is among the top 10 beaches in the world. It also happens to be in the next bay just south of West Railway beach where are our hotel is… Read more ›
Railay is a beautiful peninsular near Krabi which is for all practical purposes an island due to surrounding cliffs which make it only accessible by boat. We are staying in a stunning hotel situated on the stretch of land between… Read more ›
Our arrival in to Koh Phangan was not exactly the most organised or relaxing of boat disembarkations I have had. The 200 or so people on the high speed catamaran which had picked us up one hour late from Koh… Read more ›
I had a (relatively quick) browse of the Sydney art gallery today. Whilst there were lots of amazing aboriginal art which I was not allowed to take photos of, I also spotted this exhibit in the Chinese section… At first… Read more ›
I love this city! I love this city! It was a cloudy start to the day, but it brightened up by midday to provide us with some beautiful sunshine for some jogging, relaxing and a little bit of sunbathing. It’s… Read more ›
On a 2nd night of hosteling on the way to Adelaide we were lucky enough to stay in a great little place which had two rooms with 4 or 5 beds each, plus a lounge/dining area. I say lucky because… Read more ›