Links for Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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Read-Write Web: Word Cloud Analysis of Obama’s Inaugural Speech Compared to Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Lincoln’s – “We ran the full text of the speech through tag cloud generator Wordle.net for one view of the event, and just for the sake of historical context we ran George W. Bush’s second inaugural speech through as well.“
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OmniNerd: Automating Data Visualization with Ruby and Graphviz – “If you feel yourself reaching for Microsoft PowerPoint or Visio, quickly find a mirror and haze yourself. While both of those programs can be used for good, you’ll only further complicate things if you use them in this situation to jump from raw data to visualization“
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New York Times: The End of Banking as We Know It – “Clearly, the entire financial industry is in the midst of a makeover. And while no one wants to call it nationalization, perhaps we can agree on this much: The money business as we have come to know it over the last two decades — with its lush salaries, big-swinging risk-takers and ultrathin capital cushions — is a goner.“
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Huffington Post: Mexico On Path To Becoming Bigger Security Threat Than Iraq – “Indiscriminate kidnappings. Nearly daily beheadings. Gangs that mock and kill government agents. This isn’t Iraq or Pakistan. It’s Mexico, which the U.S. government and a growing number of experts say is becoming one of the world’s biggest security risks.“