ghshepard, true. The article focused on seawalls and surges, but still managed to get the damage correct: 600,000 residents effected, $100 Billion in damage, 145 mph winds. Regardless, knowing the effects of the storm -shown through the simulation - there could have been a plan for the ensuing catastrophe, e.g. evacuating the city, relief efforts; which seem ad hoc.
There is a deep fallacy in his argument. The academic learning of a language teaches almost nothing. The true challenge is not foreign vocabulary it is the reluctance to engage another culture, which is the prerequisite to learning any language. The author does not make this distinction possibly because he was stationed in a German-speaking country and assumes each language learner can mimic his learning process without his experience.
Often, one won't even attempt to learn a language unless you appreciate - or at least think you appreciate - the culture.
I learned English playing MMORPGs. I didn't give a damn about the culture, I just wanted to communicate with people. This means I do not understand some pop culture references, but I can speak quite fluently without having cared about English speaking countries' culture.
Many people will learn English because they want to communicate with others (who often also learn English for the same reason). Not because they have any interest in anglophone culture (if such a thing exists).
Actually you could make it to where people write and it looks like a letter. I think it is a worth while venture. I would just make a page that simulated a typewriter.
And give the option to delete a page you created. I know it will take MySQL coding but I think it is also worth the effort.
The Adventures of Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan - ancient Syrian mystical tale of a man on a mission to capture a magical book. Many parallels to the Legend of Zelda. The poetic form isn't preserved in the English translation.
Great Museum Homes of the Western United States - The great houses of the Western US, who built them, how the owners got their fortune, details into their businesses, etc
haven't used splunk, but IIRC, they focus on logging. Tableau is a better comparison. They (like excel) are the "do everything" solution. Meaning that if you want to change/tweak a chart or come up with a new chart type, you can. But most people don't know how to do that effectively and you can shoot yourself in the foot more easily.
Machete is geared towards doing only a few things, but knocking them out of the park. We try to follow data viz best practices by labeling elements directly, killing gradients, etc. (see http://darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/data-looks-better-naked/). Also, all of our animations are informative. Tableau will show you a bar chart, then you'll filter and the screen turns grey for a few seconds then all the bars "bounce" back in. It causes users to lose perspective on their data (aka change blindness). We try to have object constancy, meaning the visual element on charts will morph/transition smoothly from one state to the next as filters are applied. It is much easier to tell what is happening to your data that way.
Tableau is a great product, but they're a minivan. They can do a ton of stuff, but they're not that fun to drive. We're trying to turn Machete into a ferrari - you can't take 5 kids to soccer practice or haul groceries, but it'll get you from A to B pretty damn fast.
my email is in profile if you want to get in touch. Thanks for the kind words.
