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The Common Sense Guide to "Organic" and Other Food Labels [Food] (38)
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Everywhere you look, food is trying to impress you with how natural it is, but the message is vague and often misleading. What does "organic" actually mean? What separates "grass-fed" from "free range"? We're separating real, meaningful labels from eco-hype.Photo by greenblog. Even if you could care less about the growing media presence and consumer curiosity around food sourcing and handling, it helps to know what you're getting when you're forced to pay more for ...Shared by aegreen (8) ashburn (36) Babelfish (103) Bill (64) C (40) Darren (7) DJ (40) DMClark84 (24) Dustin (15) ErichZ (8) and 28 more »Explore read five notes- ErichZ said: I'd like to see a Canadian version of this...
- Kyle said: A pretty good article, with the big take away being: stay skeptical. I've always thought broad terms like organic/grass fed/free range were dubious and this helps support that. It's too easy to slap a word on food for marketing purposes these days.
- Tommy said: Organic does not always mean 100% organic, read the fine print, or just stay away from them and stick with traditional.
- Sage said: Great guide to finding high-quality ingredients.
- Joe said: What an absolute mess! Who'd have thought people would have to learn a new language so they could buy healthier foods at the grocery store?
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Tableau Public Brings Your Boring Data to Life [Downloads] (18)
onWindows only: Free application Tableau Public creates beautiful visualizations from your data and lets you publish them to the web, where uses can interact with your charts and graphs with live updates.The video above provides a great overview of how the tool works. Essentially, you import your data into the desktop Windows application, then play around with different charts, graphs, or other options until you find the visualization or visualizations that best fit your data. ...Shared by bebal (11) ben (6) Bill (10) darkbird18 (16) DMClark84 (24) Ferran (8) freality (14) Gambrill (48) gasenngo (1) Gerard (10) and eight more »Comment View comments
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Easily Create Awesome Charts & Graphs With Tableau Public (10)
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Data visualization and analysis is extremely important in today’s information driven world. Such feats have given insights into various aspects of human life and, if utilized properly, can help to make the world a better place. Hans Rosling’s TED talk is a testimony to this fact. There are plenty of software available to create charts and graphs from data. Excel has a great charting engine, and perhaps the most commonly used tool to create charts. ...Shared by chrisbrogan (247) Clay (32) Jamieasp (22) Le (214) Michael (99) murlidhar (7) rtsnance (89) rzklkng (309) skoskie (49) ted (97)Comment View comments -
Look at Data Like a Statistician, Minus the Ph. D [Statistics] (27)
onNathan Yau is a doctoral candidate in statistics, but the most valuable lessons he's learned in analyzing and working with data don't involve formal math. Here's how he suggests looking at lines, charts, and numbers to find interesting things.Photo by net_efekt. Yau lays out the skills and mindsets that have served him well in his studies and analysis. As he puts it, he can't shoot from the hip with questions about proper sampling size or ...Shared by Alexandre (118) Amy (69) Chris Byrne (13) Damien (4) flotsky (26) Hasan (82) JAL (42) James (2) Jamie Sundsbak (17) Jared (7) and 17 more »Comment View comments
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TuneGlue Helps You Find New Tunes You'd Like by Mapping Music Connections [Music] (54)
onIf you'd like to discovery some new music and do it in a visually appealing way, TuneGlue let's you explore the relationship between artists and bands in a connection-based web.You start building a web by searching for an artist. In our sample web above we started with Iggy Pop. When you click on your first node, you can perform variety of actions with the node but the most important action is expanding the node. Expanding ...Shared by Aaron Mayer (31) Adrian (9) BJ (25) Brodie (1) Chip (22) Chris (1) Craig Eddy (7) Creeva (8) Dave de Roos (2) David (4) and 44 more »
- Craig Eddy said: Microsoft's Zune desktop and web software has had this for about a year now.
- rsgalloway said: cool nodegraph...
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Five Best Online Diagramming Tools (28)
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Today, we are listing The Five Best Online Diagramming Tools. These would be very helpful for you to create professional looking diagrams, such as flowcharts, sitemaps, organisation charts, wireframes, and many more. If you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc but we hope that these are worth checking for all of you. Most of them are not very well known but they are really amazing in respect to their features. ...Shared by kittttttan (234) Ron (12)- DCFemella said: Definitely bookmarking this
- Jardenberg said: OMG! 4-way venndiagram. Vilken fest, eller hur @hepp?
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