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Trulia Insights launches – let the slick infographics begin

There’s a new Infographics provider on the loose, Trulia Insights, borne from existing company Trulia.

Originally, the concept was born from the idea of producing their existing monthly data reports (which they call “data sprints”) which evolved into the team saying “let’s have some fun with this” and provide more concise reports that are “less intensive but still give good information” which ultimately became Trulia Insights where data reports are “beautiful and elegant” and presented more along the lines of an infographic than an Excel spreadsheet. Brilliant.

So far their stuff looks pretty good, you can check out their initial interactive graphic for some fun. More into the “data” side than the graphics design side, which is perfectly fine by me. We need more infographics that actually have some Useful Data in them.

via Trulia Insights launches – let the slick infographics begin.

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Microsoft Going All-in on GPU Computing

12:57 pm Randall Hand

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In a press event yesterday, AMD announced the next generation Fusion chips they are working on, and a tiny little note on a one slide mentioned a new tool from Microsoft called AMP. Over on the NVidia blog, they give a few more details about it: It’s a new GPU Programming tool from Microsoft.

Its intent with C++ AMP is to expose C++ language capabilities to millions of Windows developers with the goal of enabling them to take advantage of GPUs. It promises to give millions of C++ developers the option of using Microsoft Visual Studio-based development tools to accelerate applications using the parallel processing power of GPUs. CUDA C and CUDA C++ will continue to be the preferred platform for Linux apps or demanding HPC (high performance computing) applications that need to maximize performance.

via Microsoft Going All-in on GPU Computing « NVIDIA.

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Daily Viz from Visual Loop – 15/06/2011

7:00 am Tiago Veloso

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There’s no way we can talk about video games without mentioning the recent Sony’s network outage. Promotional Codes and DCW Concepts take a deep look at the chaos originated by that situation, and then, we’ll travel trough the Playstation history, with a help from the Company itself, that produced some infographics celebrating that path. Because, no matter what, Playstation has come a long way, and they’ll keep playing an important role in the industry.