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contortgroup consults companies that do business on the web (especially startups) on product design, enrollment practice, positioning strategy, & outsourcing remediation.

contortgroup is actually just one person, Tom Gibbons. In the halcyon days of 1998, it was the style to fake being a big company working in a big "suite." Needless to say, the name stuck.

We branch out with our own ventures too.

  
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November 19th
Data Visualization

I’ve been hopping around researching data visualization methods, techniques, etc. and came across this great article:Cotton Picking Correlates to President Picking

The more red a county is, the stronger the support for John McCain and similar for Barack Obama and blue. Below is cotton production in 1860. Each dot represent 2,000 bales. That’s some strong correlation.

Cotton Picking Correlates to President PickingUpdated: My pal Lionel showed me this. I guess it’s all beating a dead horse, the dead horse of the racist south, but why not visualize it: The Racist Vote

RLTD ♫
‘I Never Picked Cotton’ / Johnny Cash