News tagged with chart junk
Chart junk? How pictures may help make graphs better
Those oft-maligned, and highly embellished, graphs and charts in USA Today and other media outlets may actually help people understand data more effectively than traditional graphs, according to new research from North Carolina ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 04, 2009 |
4 / 5 (1) |
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Medical apps ease burden on hospitals
When Dr. Jose Soler got a late-night call about a critically ill patient, he grabbed his iPad and checked the results of the electrocardiogram test that just had been administered. Thanks to an app that zooms within half ...
May 18, 2011 |
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Solar sail flares can be seen in broad daylight
It's a calm and peaceful night. Stars twinkle in the velvety darkness overhead as a distant plane blinks silently on the horizon. You could almost hear a pin drop. That is, until the flare.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 03, 2011 |
5 / 5 (2) |
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Professor's book touches on complicated social development, geography
A small, flat-faced, yapping dog named Looty has a big story behind him. And it goes back centuries.
Sep 15, 2010 |
4.7 / 5 (3) |
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Review: Ping a handy iTunes add-on with promise
(AP) -- Apple Inc.'s new music-discovery feature, Ping, is a potentially useful addition to iTunes. With it, you can see what songs your friends are buying and recommend some of your favorites to them.
Sep 08, 2010 |
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FUSE Space Telescope Reaches the End; Astronomers Say Farewell
The intrepid never-say-die space telescope known as FUSE has finally reached its mission's end and will be turned off after more than eight years of discoveries on everything from planets and nearby stars ...
Oct 08, 2007 |
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Charting ever-changing genomes
Instead of immutable proprietary software, any species’ genetic information resembles open source code that is constantly tweaked and optimized to meet the users’ specific needs. But which parts of the code have withstood ...
Biology /
Jul 19, 2007 |
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