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For some reason this post, published in the summer, has found a home in the back of my head.  The article is titled “YouTube Better at Funny Cat Videos Than Educational Content, Professors Say.”  Here is the gist, when you search YouTube for some academic topic you are much more likely to find popular low quality […]

I watched an interview with Sunni Brown on the Duarte Blog yesterday.  Really interesting piece on the use of graphic facilitation.  The interview is a little dated in internet terms (5 months) but relevant since she will be speaker at TED 2011. You can watch the interview on the Duarte Blog. After watching the interview […]

Ok, so I’ve switched hosting services and I expect some issues might arise because of the move.  Good news, is that this will ultimately lead to increased activity on this site.  I’m looking forward to more posting and less admin tasks in the very near future.  Thanks for bearing with me!

*My opinion follows, treat it as such* If you have any interest in infographics and data visualization you probably know the names David McCandless and Hans Rosling.  They are both data viz superstars but there is a big difference between the two.  That difference is their approach. The David McCandless Approach 1. Have an argument […]

Yesterday I had the honor of being interviewed for Evidence Soup’s Interview Wednesday.  The blog is for people who like evidence.  If you visit this site, you probably fit that category. If you would like to read the interview, check it out here: http://www.evidencesoup.com/canopener/2011/01/chris-lysy.html

If you follow “me” online you probably know that I am a man of two blogs, this one and http://evalcentral.com.  If you only follow Fresh Spectrum you probably think, boy this guy does not post very often.  If you only follow Eval Central, well then you are likely not reading this post. Ultimately, Fresh Spectrum […]