Sunday 17 August 2014

Graduate unemployment and salary information

Saw a great article in the Australian Financial Review today all about the decline of graduate employment in Australia (original article here). Edmund Tadros has pulled together some great data on the salaries of students and percentage of those still seeking jobs after finishing university.

The presentation of data in news is something that is always intriguing to me and another opportunity to find ways to visualise the data and make it interactive for consumers.

Here's my quick 5 minute hack-up of the data pulled together using SuperDataHub.

Enjoy!

Saturday 9 August 2014

Surviving the Challenge


So I'm coming up to my last day as the inaugural IT Survivor for VMWare and it's definitely been a very interesting experience. Despite buggy internet at times, beautiful and sometimes distracting scenery and curious locals, we were able to film all the sequences required for the challenges set for me during the week. I even managed to get my own work sorted out at the same time which was definitely the more important of the 2 things.

In any case I definitely learned a lot whilst there and would do it again if given this kind of opportunity. Maybe next time they can do a 'versus' kind of challenge where hardened IT veterans do battle against each other where the winner gets fed and the loser gets fed.... to the sharks.

Anyway, remote working is something that in itself is a challenge because a lot of traditional business is done face to face. I've learned this week that more and more, the walls of being able to do so are being broken down and the level of engagement that you can have with customers in non face-to-face environments is ever increasing.

Check out the rough mobile phone videos that the guys from VMWare took:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g9sJS78Aqk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHRI_xa9crE

The actual film done by the professional crew is going to be cut and put together to coincide with VMWare's vForum across Asia Pac - http://info.vmware.com/content/virtualizationforum_WW

Can't wait to see how it turns out!




Photo courtesy of Allure Media / Lifehacker - http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/08/it-survivor-the-video-wrap-up/