HousingMaps

Now every once in a while, you find something on the net that has really hit a sweet spot. I might be looking to move close to my office in downtown Toronto into a rented place, and housingmaps.com has a fantastic solution that will help me find the apartment that has "that perfect location". Here is a use of visualization to solve a complex business problem. So long, housing agents!

Hiking around Toronto

My buddy Rahul's kept complaining that there is no real hiking place around Toronto. The usual Hiking websites were giving us information about hiking trails that were more like walks on flat tracts of land rather than a hike. And so, Google came to the rescue..
An app that attaches to Google My Maps draws contour lines, and this idea struck me when I was playing around with these different apps.
Lots of contour lines jamming together indicates steep climbs, while contour lines spaced far away from each other mean flat tracts of land. Wasaga Beach, here we come! And see how Jagged Northern Pennsylvania is....

Starting off this Blog

Im making a start to this blog in an attempt to collect interesting stuff related to the use of visualization in business. It is really interesting to see what impact visualization has on innovation and efficiency on an organization, and I intend to explore this issue further. Lets go Vaarun.. we've got stuff to get done!

gliffy.com - pretty cool

I chanced upon this website called gliffy.com this morning, and I've got to say that it makes it real easy to make simple drawings and share it. I did this diagram in about ten minutes, and felt really comfortable using gliffy. And Ive shared it with you with the least bit of trouble!