Grants For Free Ensuring A Less Expensive Education

The best type of financial aid you can receive is a grant for the simple reason that grants, unlike loans need not be repaid over a period of time. However, not everyone can qualify for a grant even if it is proven that you are in need of financial aid and need the support of a lending firm or institution. Here’s a list of basic information on how Read more ...

Mixed results on education reform

Mixed results on education reform

It has been 10 years since S.C. leaders set a goal to be among the top half of states in student achievement by 2010 and instituted sweeping education reform focused on high-stakes testing.

Bridgewater-Raynham field trip policy

Bridgewater-Raynham field trip policy
BRIDGEWATER The Bridgewater-Raynham Regional School Committee recently approved a field trip policy that clarifies the kinds of trips that should be school-sanctioned. The goal in developing the policy was to provide consistency for all out-of-school travel. Field trips will fall into three categories: The first includes school-sanctioned trips that carry the approval of principals and the superintendent. Those trips would ...

Many-Eyes.com Visualization Tool

Many-Eyes.com Visualization Tool
I first read about Many Eyes in the business section of the Sunday 8/31/08 NY Times, where it was described by the Times writer Anne Eisenburg, "Lines and Bubbles and Bars, Oh My! New Ways to Sift Data." Eisenburg argues that Many Eyes does for users of data displays what YouTube does for videos and Flickr for photos: "Now they can share more technical types of displays: graphs, charts, and other visuals they create to help them analyze data buried in spreadsheets, tables, or text." Many Eyes was created by IBM scientists and developers to provide sophisticated visualization tools for data analyses and displays. The site should be of interest to students and to instructors, and to the general public. One of the most important contributions of the Web-- beyond quick communications and ready access to information, advice, and opinion-- is the access to sound, video, photo and other tools that were previously the province of specialists. (One caution--because Many Eyes is experimental the server is not always up, sometimes it is closed for development and updating.) ____JH

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About Many Eyes

"Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to 'democratize' visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis. Jump right to our visualizations now, take a tour, or read on for a leisurely explanation of the project.

All of us in CUE's Visual Communication Lab are passionate about the potential of data visualization to spark insight. It is that magical moment we live for: an unwieldy, unyielding data set is transformed into an image on the screen, and suddenly the user can perceive an unexpected pattern. As visualization designers we have witnessed and experienced many of those wondrous sparks. But in recent years, we have become acutely aware that the visualizations and the sparks they generate, take on new value in a social setting. Visualization is a catalyst for discussion and collective insight about data.

We all deal with data that we'd like to understand better. It may be as straightforward as a sales spreadsheet or fantasy football stats chart, or as vague as a cluttered email inbox. But a remarkable amount of it has social meaning beyond ourselves. When we share it and discuss it, we understand it in new ways."