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The $80 Trillion World Economy in One Chart The latest estimate from the World Bank puts global GDP at roughly $80 trillion in nominal terms for 2017. Today’s chart from HowMuch.net uses this data to show all major economies in a visualization called a Voronoi diagram – let’s dive into the stats to learn more. The World’s Top 10 Economies Here are the world’s top 10 economies, which together combine for a whopping two-thirds of global GDP. In nominal terms, the U.S. still has the largest GDP at $19.4 trillion, making up 24.4% of the world economy.

5 Templates for Better Understanding Your Customers Once you understand your personas’ needs, it’s time to determine how to meet them. Agile development teams work with stakeholders to create user stories: simple statements to describe what users want, so they can develop a shared understanding of customers, and prioritize tasks and features to fit this customer-centric approach. A user story is typically formatted as a phrase about who the user is, what they want, and why. For example: “As a first-time homebuyer, Anna wants access to multiple mortgage options so she can get the best deal.” Putting this idea in the first person helps keep the focus on the user, rather than the feature.

Introducing the PivotViewer Control for Silverlight The Silverlight PivotViewer control is now available. Jesse Liberty and I have been working closely with the Live Labs team to help transition the PivotViewer control out as a real product for the developer community. I'm excited to say that the control is no longer a lab project, but is now out and available for developers! My congratulations to the team; they worked really hard to get this control out and into your hands. Of course, it wouldn't be any good to launch a cool control like this without giving you guys everything you need to get started, so let's take a look at what else we put together for you. Google admits Kubernetes container tech is so complex, it's had to roll out an Autopilot feature to do it all for you Google has recognised that users struggle to configure Kubernetes correctly and introduced a new Autopilot service in an attempt to simplify deployment and management. Two things everyone knows about Kubernetes are: first, that it has won in the critically important container orchestration space, and second, that its complexity is both a barrier to adoption and a common cause of errors. Even Google, the inventor and biggest promoter of Kubernetes, admits this is the case. "Despite 6 years of progress, Kubernetes is still incredibly complex," said Drew Bradstock, product lead for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). "What we've seen in the past year or so is a lot of enterprises are embracing Kubernetes, but then they run headlong into the difficulty." GKE is a Kubernetes platform that runs primarily on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), but also on other clouds or on-premises, where it is part of Anthos.

Visualizing Graphs in 3D with WebGL – neo4j I was already aware of and impressed by three.js, especially the 3d and WebGL capabilities. I had seen and done some graph visualization using it years ago, but 3d-force-graph packages three.js nicely with a Graph API and adds useful options to quickly get good looking results. If you want to try the different approaches directly, I put them into a GitHub Repository with live examples using the RawGit Service to serve HTML pages and assets directly from the repository. Datasets I started by using the Game of Thrones interaction graph, that my colleague Will Lyon wrote about here and which you can create yourself by running :play got in your Neo4j Browser. Data Visualization: Modern Approaches About The Author Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. When he is not writing or speaking at a conference, he’s most probably running … More about Vitaly Friedman … Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data - tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every project and on every possible occasion. However, to convey a message to your readers effectively, sometimes you need more than just a simple pie chart of your results.

Extremely energy efficient microprocessor developed using superconductors Researchers from Yokohama National University in Japan have developed a prototype microprocessor using superconductor devices that are about 80 times more energy efficient than the state-of-the-art semiconductor devices found in the microprocessors of today's high-performance computing systems. As today's technologies become more and more integrated in our daily lives, the need for more computational power is ever increasing. Because of this increase, the energy use of that increasing computational power is growing immensely. For example, so much energy is used by modern day data centers that some are built near rivers so that the flowing water can be used to cool the machinery.

13 Free Sites That Offer High-Quality 2D People and Objects for Your Architecture Visualizations 13 Free Sites That Offer High-Quality 2D People and Objects for Your Architecture Visualizations October 23, 2017 Share FacebookTwitterPinterestWhatsappMail Or Improve Customer Experience with UX Investments that Increase ROI When User Experience (UX) improves the customer experience, it affects the company’s ROI (Return on Investment) because good UX investments enhance customer satisfaction. Satisfied customers are loyal; they trust a company’s products, and they want to come back for more, which is why satisfied customers are vital to a company’s success – and are its very reason for existing. Here, you’ll learn which steps you can specifically take to boost your customers’ satisfaction—and likewise your company’s ROI—through investments in specific UX techniques and work processes. UX, Customer Satisfaction and ROI Go Hand in Hand at Amazon Let’s start with the classic example of Amazon before we delve any further. Amazon is a prime example of a company that has built its success and ROI upon a focus on customer experience throughout the entire customer journey and that continually measures the user experience.

Using Wireframes to Streamline Your Development Process Creating a wireframe is one of the first steps you should take before designing a website. A wireframe helps you organize and simplify the elements and content within a website and is an essential tool in the development process. A wireframe is basically a visual representation of content layout in a website design. The wireframe acts as a prototype that shows the placement of page features, such as header, footer, content, sidebars, and navigation. It also specifies the placement of the elements within these content areas.