Interactive Budgeting

I had a conversation today about making the city's budgeting process more accessible to the public, and was shown this link from the Kansas DOT as an example. I think it's pretty cool, and a type of tool that could be really useful in some of the conversations that are bound to happen more often as the economy struggles to get back on its feet. 

What do you think works well? What would you change?

Attention all job seekers

Here's a writeup I found on mashable.com on the top 10 social sites for finding a job.

Stimulating comparisions of 2 Treemaps showing the stimulas package

Whose do you like better?

Hives

or

Juices

Is there a better way to summarize the 407 pdf detailing the plan?

BTW, Juice came out with their display first. I think it was released a couple of days ago, as part of their open source SDK, which is a great idea. I learned of Hive's implementation from a linkedin post.

Story in today's NYTimes about the maps and cellphones

“I always said the next interface would be Quake,” said Steve Capps, one of the designers of the original Macintosh interface, referring to the popular video game. “How long will it be before you come out of the subway and you hold up your screen to get a better view of what you’re looking at in the physical world?”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/science/17map.html?_r=1&8dpc

New book--How we decide

I heard the author of this book, Jonah Lehrer, on "Wait wait, don't tell me" the NPR news quiz last night. His book is filled with funny studies conducted on unsuspecting undergrads that show how irrational we are in much of our decision making.

http://www.jonahlehrer.com/books

Interesting story on Snopes about how presentation affects perceptions of quality

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/bell.asp

Hans Rosling on population growth

The Master Presenter is at it again. This time he's analyzing population growth. What do you think about the roving camera shots?

http://vimeo.com/2905893

Roll your own web aggregator

Pipes is a powerful and easy to use composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/

Jobs in Richmond, VA

More recruiters
Getting calls about openings in Richmond, VA. One for SunTrust bank. The other was not specific, but it's probably either also SunTrust, or Capital One. In any event, the non-specific one was posted on linkedin. You can find it here.

Will let you know when I know more, which should be tomorrow. BTW, I reread Advanta's rules on blogging. This blog should be ok, but I'm not allowed to update it from work, so keep that in mind when checking back.

SunTrust says they're looking to hire 20 "Analysts". This would be for the mortgage business, but I can tell you, it's not all that different than the work you've all done in SB credit cards.

Good article from today's NYTimes

Crunching data for the tree of life.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/science/10tree.html

Recruiter for TechUSA

Hi all,

I met with a recruiter for TechUSA today, Drew Talone. Nice guy and seems like a go-getter. Suzannah, his company has a contract with NavTeq, and they're local. I told him about your good work and he said he'd love to speak to you.

His phone number is 610-897-2397, and his email address is, atalone@techusa.net. They also have their tentacles into pharma, financial services, and other fun arenas. Also, Mark S. is working with another one of their recruiters, Sean Healey.

Will keep my ears and eyes open should any other interesting things come my way.

Hiring manager for Chase's Analytics group

I know the HR hiring manager for Chase's Analytic group. If you're interested in working in Wilmington, let me know and I'll make sure she gets your resume and a recommendation from me about you.

The Visualizers

Hi Everyone--I thought I'd put a place together where we can keep up to date with everyone's goings ons. If anyone has a place they already like to hang out online, where we can form a group like this, please feel free to let us know.