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CreditKarma has an infographic up that attempts to show a connection between email providers and credit ratings, showing average credit scores, debt amounts, and ontime payments.

You may have kept your AOL account since receiving a free disc in the 90’s, signed up for Yahoo! in college, got a Gmail invite, or moved to Comcast when you finally installed broadband, but what does it say about you? When categorized by email provider, the credit score and debt averages of users begins to tell a story. Do Gmail users take on larger mortgages? Do Yahoo! users have lower credit card limits? Credit Karma takes a closer look at how users of the most popular email providers stack up.

It’s a neat graphic, but the epitome of “Correlation does not imply Causation.”.  Case in point: ComCast users have the highest average credit score (692), but also the highest average total debt ($149,000).  How can this be?  You have to read the fine print: “People with zero debt are not included in the averages”.

What Does Your Email Provider Say About You? | Credit Karma Blog. via Cool Infographics

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The economy may still be in “recession-mode”, but that hasn’t stopped several retailers from continuing to grow their operations.  A new infographic from Milo, creators of the previous “The Bulk of Shopping” infographic, shows the relative sizes of the various retail markets and then a slew of numbers showing some fairly substantial growth.

“For us, it’s not surprising that a store like Best Buy has seen such explosive growth. Not only is it an exceptional retailer in its product quality and value, but it is capitalizing on the research online, buy offline trend much better than many other companies. Best Buy is a great example of a brick and mortar retailer that realizes the Internet is a great ally for growth, rather than the enemy,” said Jack Abraham, Milo.com founder and CEO. “Despite the recession, it’s clear that Americans are spending money, and that they’re doing it at stores near them. Milo.com helps these shoppers find the right product at the best price, right when and where they want it.”

See the fullsize graphic after the break.

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Information is Beautiful has posted some updates on their website. First up, they have enhanced their visualization of banned keywords and censored websites in China. Secondly, they have updated their interactive SnakeOil Supplements visualization. Finally, they have a full size image of Wilfred Castillo’s Tide Prediction graphic. Click on the link below to go to the Information is Beautiful to see the gorgeous visualizations. Personally, I like the tide prediction graphics.

via: Information is Beautiful

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Robert Kosara has a new blog-post online about the important advances created by Jane Richardson in visualizing proteins.  Finding a clever way of representing the thousands of atoms and molecular bonds in simple, yet beautiful, strands and ribbons easily earns her a metnion as part of “Ada Lovelace Day”.

Scientists only figured out how to determine the three-dimensional structure of proteins in the 1970s. When Jane Richardson was writing a review article about the proteins whose structure was known in 1980, she needed a consistent way of showing them. It was clearly not very practical (or useful for understanding) to draw thousands of atoms that were part of a complex, three-dimensional structure.

via A Visual Language for Proteins: Jane Richardson | EagerEyes.org.

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Here’s today’s Pixels:

• Inspiration: Underwater Images & Tutorials
• Tutorial: Making a simple Spinning Logo with CINEMA4D
• Freebie: 45 Awesome Grunge Fonts
• Event: Microsoft’s Natural User Interface Camp

Here’s today’s Deals:

• Amazon: Up to 50% Off all Anime Movie’s & TV Shows, Everything from Astro Boy to Ponyo

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Hades: So you took care of him, huh? “Dead as a doornail.” Weren’t those your *exact* words?
Pain: This might be a different Hercules.
Panic: Yeah. I mean, Hercules is a very popular name nowadays.
Pain: Remember, like, a few years ago, every other boy was named Jason, and the girls were all named Brittany?

It turns out that Pain and Panic were right in the Disney movie Hercules. Stephen Von Worley has posted an interesting visualization of the most popular names for both boys and girls. It shows that in the late 1980′s Brittany was a very popular name, before fading. In the early 1980′s, Jason was also a popular name which has since faded.

Sorry Maitri, but your name does not show up on the list of girl’s names. But do not feel too bad, for neither does Randall or Paul show up on the list of boy’s names.

The rock of the girls names would have to be Elizabeth, and post-2000, Ava, Mia, Addison, and Chloe make a sturdy debut. Also, notice the recent retro comeback, wherein five long-lost favorites – Ella, Anna, Emma, Lillian, and Grace – have emerged from obscurity to reassert their vintage charms. Could Ida, Minnie, and Bertha be next? Time will tell!

via Name Change « Weather Sealed.

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Nvidia is set to release the GeForce GTX 480 and 470 graphics cards at the Pax East conference in the main theater from 6pm to 7pm EDT. You will need to be there early since seating is limited. They will have a live blog of the unveiling of the cards during this time, for those who cannot make it to the event.

The Nvidia booth will be in Exhibit Hall D, Booth #1003. Here you will be able to play with the GeForce GTX 480, as well as play in 3-D. They will have some Tegra-powered mobile devices on display, as well as will be giving out prizes.

On the third floor, they will have a 300-person Bring Your Own Computer LAN. That is not all as they will also have a 400-station PC free-play/tournament area. If that is not enough for you, they will also have:

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 – Battle for PAX $10,000
Championship Finals
Sunday, March 28, 2010 – 11:30 AM to 4:00 PM

Dominate your foes in Battlefield: Bad Company 2, in top notch online all-out warfare in what Game Informer calls, “the best tactical multiplayer action on the planet.” Compete in the online ladder to win travel reimbursement to the finals at Penny Arcade Expo East, BYOC seats in the GeForce LAN, and top seeding in the $10,000 championship finals. Details for the online ladders can be found here. If you already have tickets to PAX and just want to compete in the onsite qualifiers, details will be coming soon on how you can sign up for the onsite qualifying rounds.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 – 3D Tournament (It’s the World’s First!)
Saturday, March 27, 2010 – 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM

The world’s first 3D PC gaming tournament featuring NVIDIA 3D Vision, this tournament on Saturday will feature its own set of exciting prizes. Stay tuned here for details on prizes, rules and how to sign up for this tournament.

via : NVIDIA is Heading to PAX East
via : PAX East 2010

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This week’s Resource goes out to Graphics Designers, be they designing infographics or logos, who need just a little something extra.  The “1000 Series” of books collects 1000 great elements, be it fonts, packages, or graphic details, into a single source for easy reference and inspiration.  Their latest offering, 1000 More Graphic Elements: Unique Elements for Distinctive Designs, follows in this tradition.

1000 More Graphic Elements is the follow-up to the extremely successful 1000 Graphic Elements, published in 2004. This edition features 1000 new unique graphic embellishments across all kinds of projects, from books to brochures, invitations to calendars to annual reports. It is often the smallest detail that can turn a project from ordinary to spectacular. Inspiration will be at your fingertips with examples of specialty processes such as diecutting and embossing, unique materials, fasteners, specialty inks, binders and more.

This book, and others in the series, are available in the VizWorld Store.

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As if to drive the final nail in the theory that the Periodic Table is a horribly overused metaphor for visualizations, Bill Keaggy has released the “Periodic Table of Periodic Tables”, compiling over 100 different periodic tables into a single chart.

In case you’re looking, the Periodic Table of Science Fiction is #13.

/ keaggy.com :: The Periodic Table of Periodic Tables /.

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The Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 is not even available yet, and we already have Atomic magazine pulling it apart to see what is in it. The memory chips are Samsung GDDR5 chips with the laser etching of KNG10325FF for the model number. To cool the GF100 chip, Nvidia is using a fan made by Delta Electronics that uses 21.6 Watts of power. While Delta fans are known to be loud, I suspect that Nvidia will not be running the fan at full load. Atomic magazine has 24 pictures available for viewing at the site linked below. From their on-line article:

The GTX480′s reference heatsink is unique compared to a huge array of more common designs; first and foremost due to its external radiator that vents heat directly off the surface of the card. While it still features a squirrel-cage intake fan at one end, and passes most of the air outside the rear of the chassis, this radiator hints at a heat load that is atypical of most high-end cards.

via NVIDIA GTX480 Disassembly Guide @ Atomic MPC.

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