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Thomson Reuters is focussed on delivering “Intelligent Information”. One of the ways we can do this is by providing ways to see the patterns in the ever increasing amount of information we all have to filter.

This visualization caught my eye -

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I’ve been interested in the debate about how social software could extend your ability to connect (increasing your Dunbar number) or if it is just a tool which allows us to be better at being connected. Either way this is a fascinating instrumentation of how people interacted with a live event.

One day I believe we’ll use social media such as Twitter, Facebook and IM to filter information in a truly contextual way.

Written by jpowell

February 3rd, 2009 at 4:44 pm

Posted in Visualization

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