Make a chart or graph on poster board or a large piece of paper.
But, thanks to the web, you can now create your own collection of ideas and data without all the pain of manipulating data into a plain, old chart or bar graph form.
Graph Search capitalizes on Facebook's massive bank of data about its users, or "social graph, " to seek out friends, or other users who have made their information public, using information about them.
The whole idea was that the speaker would talk for a while, and then occasionally show a slide that illustrated a point with a picture or a striking image, or made a set of numbers clear with a bar graph or a pie chart.
Another feature of the evening will be the ability to record who you have met and spoken to during the Twestival to create a log of the night, or a "social graph".
Players had to map out their progress in virtual worlds on sheets of graph paper, or write down lengthy passwords to save games.
Worse, the company's chief asset--its nifty software--still has no patent or trademark protection (see radar graph).
The same data may be used through SQL, NoSQL, MapReduce, or other forms such as a graph analytics.
Its users may find the utility of searching their own social graph to be hit-or-miss, but they also may find themselves feeling much more exposed in the searches of others than they ever intended to be.
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Anytime you see an inflection point (a sudden change in the direction or slope of a line) in a graph that amalgamates the decisions and actions of hundreds of millions of people, you are witnessing the impact of government policies.
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The currency for those in charge of an ecosystem is to get you using their system as quickly as possible, or associate the new device with your existing personal graph as quickly as possible.
For sure, Graph Search will be more useful than Timeline or NewsFeed, at least for me.
As a result, the Pinterest graph will be much richer than what Facebook or Twitter can hope to rival.
We're not expecting a direct retort from Mark Zuckerberg or anyone else, although the Facebook founder could easily contend that Graph Search speaks volumes on its own.
We're calling it Graph Search, and it starts today with a limited preview, or beta.
When Facebook launched Graph Search, it did not say its primary purpose was recruitment or job search.
The challenge that many companies have when attempting to create a data driven culture is that the glamorous part, the chart and graph at the end of the process, is really about 10 percent or less of the work.
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Will Graph search (the name is terrible for the average user) be another flop, or it will it really change how we search for relevant things in the future.
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