Webinars Coming Up This Month On Digital Signage Content Basics, And Data June 3, 2016 by Dave Haynes Not sure what’s up, but lately I’ve been involved in a string of webinars, helping put various companies and organizations. There are at least two more coming up. The Digital Signage Federation, which I’ve finally joined, has a June 15 “Hangout” session on the Basic Content Do’s & Don’ts for Digital Signage, in which I’m guessing I’ll …
NBA’s Raptors Visualize Data From IBM’s Watson To Build Team’s Future June 2, 2016 by Dave Haynes The NBA’s Toronto Raptors had a good playoff run once their key guards remembered how to shoot, but the ownership and management team is also using less obvious cues and clues from visualized data to build the club’s future. In mid-season, the team launched IBM Sports Insights Central, a data viz set-up using MultiTaction’s software and hardware …
Cool Data Visualization Shows Global Shipping April 28, 2016 by Dave Haynes Via Popular Mechanics The University of London’s Energy Institute created this great visualization to show the movements of cargo ships, and the resulting carbon footprint. This is just a gif of that. You can (maybe) see the full visualization at http://www.shipmap.org/. You’ll need to enable Web GL support in your browser, which takes a little rooting around …
Projects: Visualized Butterflies Tell Time For Yorkdale Shoppers April 13, 2016 by Dave Haynes Here’s a nice example of simple, but visually interesting visualized data being done at Yorkdale, which is very arguably the ritziest shopping mall in Canada. Cineplex Digital Media works with the Toronto mall and its parent company, Oxford Properties, on the digital screens around the various shopping centres aOxford has across the country. To show shoppers …
TransitScreen Raises $800K To Chase Real Estate Tech, Smart Cities Business April 5, 2016 by Dave Haynes Washington, DC-based startup TransitScreen – which mashes up open source data like transit and traffic conditions as feeds and finished screens – has completed an $800,000 seed capital raise. The money will be used, says the company, to expand sales and product growth in the real estate tech and smart cities verticals. The investors include DC-based …
Check Out These Cool Data Visualizations From Mike Pell April 1, 2016 by Dave Haynes Mike Pell of Microsoft was one of the speakers last fall at the DSrupted conference. I was really happy he agreed to speak because he had a lot to say about visualized data needing to be insightful first, and then, possibly, pretty. He’s released a set of visualizations he calls “Datascrapers” that has been inspired by …
DSE 2016 Day Two Impressions March 18, 2016 by Dave Haynes The 2016 version of Digital Signage Expo is in the can, with the show already announcing next year will be the last week of March, with the trade hall open on the 29th and 30th. The numbers haven’t been pushed out by the show, but I can’t see it being logged as bigger than last …
Looking For Data Visualization Stories March 9, 2016 by Dave Haynes I have this theory that visualized data is the next big thing in digital signage, and have been blabbering away about that for a couple of years now. Screens that display highly visual animations, charting and even just well-presented numbers deal very efficiently with the whole feeding the content beast dilemma. Problem is – while I hear …
Eight Content Subscription Options To Feed The Digital Signage Beast December 1, 2015 by Curtis Tilly Digital signage networks are content-hungry beasts, and one of the ways to keep fresh and happy is through subscription content services. Those content feeds can vary quite a bit from company to company, but the business models tend to be similar. In most cases, network operators pay a set fee for the automated delivery of …
How Four Winds Used Own Product To Boost Morale, Culture And Employee Engagement October 26, 2015 by Dave Haynes If there was a highlight for me from last week’s Forward conference in Denver, it was probably the opening session run by David Levin, the CEO of Four Winds Interactive, which put the event on. I’d tend to think of these kick-off sessions as welcomes and walk-throughs of what to expect, and not a bunch …
