A lot has been said about the role of Social Media in education, but, after all, how big is that role? With a help of some infographics, Course Hero, Online Education and Schools try to put thinks in perspective. Also from the guys at Schools, a peak at how teachers are using Facebook, and, finally, a look at the evolution of the techie dorm room, again from Course Hero.
This week we’ll be talking about Education, one of favorite topics for infographics in the internet. Everybody knows how important a solid educational policy is to a country’s future, and in the US it couldn’t be any different. So, we start by taking a look at how much the American government actually spends on Education, at how does college GPA affect earnings, and at the outrageous hidden costs of college, all from the folks at Course Hero. To close this first day, two recent infographics with a lot of curiosities about college, from Online Schools and Degree Central.
Looks like we get a little sneak peak of Pixar’s newest short “La Luna”, to be premiered at the upcoming Annecy International Animation Festival this June.
“La Luna is the timeless fable of a young boy who is coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. In an old wooden boat they row far out to sea, and with no land in sight, they stop and wait,” reads the synopsis.
“A big surprise awaits the little boy as he discovers his family’s most unusual line of work. Should he follow the example of his Papa, or his Grandpa? Will he be able to find his own way in the midst of their conflicting opinions and timeworn traditions?”
Yesterday JPR came out with some results of NVidia’s Discrete Market share, making note of their loss to AMD and Intel’s Sandy Bridge. Several sites quickly jumped on to proclaim the death of NVidia, but some new data from Mercury Research shows this is just the usual ebb and flow of the market.
This loss of share partly reflects NV’s decision to exit the integrated chipset market, but it’s also an ominous sign of things to come. Sandy Bridge and Llano, once fully launched, will threaten NV’s price points at the low end of the market. Intel’s Ivy Bridge could mount a fresh challenge against NV’s low-end bastions by the end of the year, while AMD’s Llano is rumored to be significantly faster than Sandy Bridge’s GPU.
via JPR Figures Show Nvidia Losing Market Share – HotHardware.
For this Friday, we decided to bring some recent sports infographics. The Economic Impact of the NFL Lockout, from Focus, the impact the Real Salt Lake team is making US soccer history, according to US Dish, and Flip Flop Flyn‘s break down of Manny Ramirez as a Tampa Bay Ray are some of the selected, followed by a look at the financial differences between football and soccer, presented by Total Pro Sports, and, finally, a journey into the Indy 500 history, by Harrison Goodman for the USA Today.
The Walt Disney Animation Studios has just added two new software tools to their open-source offerings. The first is a new tool called ‘Reposado’ that will probably appeal more to your Systems Admins than your graphics guys:
Reposado is a set of tools written in Python that replicate the key functionality of Mac OS X Server’s Software Update Service. Reposado, together with the “curl” binary tool and a web server such as Apache 2, enables you to host a local Apple Software Update Server on any hardware and OS of your choice. Reposado is licensed under the new BSD license.
Second is a new tool called ‘SeExpr’:
SeExpr is a simple expression language that we use to provide artistic control and customization to our core software. We use it for procedural geometry synthesis, image synthesis, simulation control, and much more.
It looks very much in the “Made for Engineers by Engineers” stages, but could be a great tool to use with massive geometry & object instancing systems.
MIT has come up with a new way to view 3-D images without the use of glasses. They are calling this High-Rank 3D Display. They say it is not another parallax barrier. Instead they call it Content Adaptive Parallax Barrier. What it sounds like to me is that instead of a parallax barrier that is fixed, this one can adjust based on the content being shown.
via : MIT glasses-free 3D works from many perspectives @ CNET
Today, we’ll be focusing a bit on Social Media, starting with Ignite Social Media‘s analysis on the winners and losers of Social Networking. Then, a look at some recent milestones, from GetGlue and Stardoll, followed by a couple of infographics from Get Satisfaction: the comparison of Facebook with a city, and some tips on how to use Social Media to feed the sales funnel.
No tech business battle has been so fun to follow than the one involving Microsoft and Apple. The Mac vs PC ads have been around for quite some time, and iTok takes on this issue to show who’s really winning this battle. With a humorous, but nevertheless valid, approach, Hunch goes deeper on the differences between users, and, to close our Daily Viz, three pieces a bit more serious. First, Win Rumours shows some numbers behind Microsoft, Apple’s “Ad Machine” is analyzed by the folks at Buy Sell Ads, and a very interesting overview to Silicon Valey’s Money Network, presented by Deal Book.
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