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Tyler Graf

Tyler Graf

Tyler Graf is an Oregon-based reporter and freelance journalist.

Fantasy Football: A Big Win For Collaboration?

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Every fall a study is released lamenting the toll fantasy football takes on the U.S. economy. This year’s buzzkill report finds that office fantasy leagues are costing employers as much as $430.9 million in lost productivity every week during the National Football League season. Most people dismiss these studies as attempts by management consulting firms…

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Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto

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Futuristic connotations notwithstanding, the idea of “robotic collaboration” seems like an antiquated concept. Today’s tech is designed for seamless integration into our natural environment: even the assembly line robotic arms you see manufacturing diesel engines in Detroit reflect this task-specific functionalism. Eventually, the human race realized it didn’t need a seven-foot tall anthropomorphic automaton like…

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Data Miners: Panning For Statistical Gold

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Every credit card swipe, Google query, and online vehicle registration renewal contributes to the terabytes of digital data zipping along fiber optic cables and soaring through the airwaves towards giant computer servers. Access to this stream of information is useless without the ability to analyze the data, identify patterns, and translate them into decipherable figures.…

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Gaming Gridlock: Cool Tech to Beat Traffic Congestion

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Americans’ relationship with the automobile has been described as a “love affair,” but these days the passion is long gone. While cars were once synonymous with the freedom of mobility, today drive-time commuters have come to know only gridlock. Congestion on our highways is not only a transportation problem, but an environmental and economic one as well. In New York City alone, the cost of poorly designed traffic systems is estimated to be $2.5 billion a year…

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The Arab Spring One Year Later: Lessons in Vertical Communication

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From December 2010 to March 2011, a wave of civil uprisings washed over the Middle East and North Africa. Protesters expressed dissatisfaction with the corrupt political elite and unaccountable governments. The events were termed the “Arab Spring” because of their resemblance to the Prague Spring in the former Czechoslovakia 40 years prior…

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Going Guerrilla: Lessons from The Digital Jungle

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Looking for a dollop of marketing pixie dust from the viral video fairies? Or just hoping for an easy way to get your company or product noticed? Whatever your goal, creating buzz online can seem like a perfect solution—but there’s far more to it than just spontaneously uploading goofy office videos. Even the most “guerilla” of Internet marketing techniques requires a great degree of foresight and planning.

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Immersive Visualization: The Future of Data Presentation

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The goal of data visualization is more than simply conveying information. Spreadsheets and Word documents can perform that same function in tightly-organized columns. But visualization allows us to draw lines between data points like a constellation and present the viewer with a fully-formed concept in a way that rows and columns cannot. If we take it a step further, we can even use visualization to create a fully interactive experience.

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