Super Bowl in Indianapolis on Feb. 5 is just around the corner and everyone is already wondering about the 2012 commercials. This year a handful of companies will be splashing out a whooping amount of$3.5 million for a 30 sec ad. Yes that's right $ 3.5 which is  17% more then last year.

When we had the original idea for iCharts sometime ago, one of things that drove us where that most articles online today that report on facts and figures are text based, at most contain tables, hardly ever charts are used. An image says a thousand words, everyone knows that but still, no charts in articles.

The announcement made today in Brussels regarding the launch of Open Data Strategy for Europe will open up potential business opportunities around the data mine that European Union holds.

Google has announced the Android Market has hit 10 billion downloads! To celebrate and most probably to increase those numbers they are offering 10 days of top premium apps for only 10 cents each. According to Econsultancy.com Android has 52.5% of the smartphone market but has always trailed behind Apple’s app performance.

Imagine a world that is able to decipher a consumer’s “buy button” and expose this knowledge to corporations, Wall Street bankers, and politicians to help manipulate a consumer’s overall decision process.  A world where researchers are able to reach a consumer’s subconscious mind to better understand why consumers do what they do and what part of the brain is telling them to do it.

The unemployment numbers in the US paint a sad story. Knowing that a lot of people won't claim for unemployment benefits, we know that the situation is more worse than what is being reported.

With all the social networking tools available to us and the six-degrees-of-separation rule, things should really get back to normal for people. The numbers show that - that is not the case. 

Communicating data can be quite a challenge and difficult at most times. Visualisation tools as infographics or charts help us to deliver complex data in the most appealing way to our eyes. They can be as complicated as some infographics out there or as simple as line graphs, pie charts or bar charts. As long as the data is visualised in a clear way which delivers information in the most accurate way I am happy.