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What is Kanopy?
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform for universities that offers viewers a large collection of award-winning films and documentaries.
For students, Kanopy is a FREE Netflix alternative. It may also be one of the best kept secrets for award-winning documentaries, and film festival favorites!
Looking for a new podcast?
Check out The Wall Street Journal podcasts!
Here's a shortlist of some our favorite WSJ podcasts, with one particularly intriguing/popular title for each:
The Future of Everything
Listen: The High-Tech Approach to Human Fertility
Secrets of Wealthy Women
Good data is a powerful tool.
According to the Wharton School of Business, "Presenters who use visual language [such as infographics] are perceived by audiences as more effective than those not using visuals."
Ponder this: Don't infographics convey a lot more information in a lot less space than would an article or regular graphs of the same data?
Well of course! And according to the CEO of Market Domination Media, "An infographic is 30 times more likely to be read than a text article."
Infographics allow individuals to:
MSU Libraries is offering several workshops in spring on GIS and map related topics. All workshops are free and open to the public. The workshops will be held in the Main Library.
The United States was eager to learn more about rumors of a potential vast wealth in iron to be had in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Copper mining was well underway and iron mining was just beginning when the Department of the Interior charged John Foster and Josiah Whitney to take a crew up there and complete a hasty geological survey of the 100,000 square mile area.
Looking for visualizations that highlight major global trade networks?
Want to know which country exports the most puzzles?
The Observatory of Economic Complexity is a research and data viz tool used to explore global trade dynamics. It provides a snapshot of countries imports, exports, trade partners, products, and so on. Basically, it's a research tool that allows users to quickly compose a visual narrative about countries and the products they exchange. It provides access to bilateral trade data for roughly 200 countries, 50 years and 1000 different products.
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CB Insights recently released a report outlining trends which they say will shape the technology sector in 2019.
The company which uses machine learning to mine terabytes of data and knowledge in order to help clients "see where the [tech] world is going," has identified 14 of the tech trends they'll be watching closely this year. According to CB Insights, here are just a few of the ways that technology will impact our lives in 2019: