[RE] - Adaptation through data visualisation
Haha, ok this is amazing, I have just received an email……ok wait stop I’ll jump back a few days.
After my first initial thoughts last week I did some more research around the idea of ‘Re:’ and thought about how I can apply this term to industry facing technologies! Luckily this inspiration came straight from FOWA and from a talk held on the Entrepreneur stage entitled ‘Next Generation Visualisations’. Actually I’ll make a point of posting some of the work I saw there later on as I could use that for reference.
I started to think how I can apply this to ‘Re:’ and if instead of setting up a portal and a discussion between peers, if I could alternatively approach a real world company and implement it for them! (I am all for applying my thoughts to real world situations, and getting that experience now!). My research lead me to some interesting fields and to two websites in particular:
http://www.emailstatcenter.com/SubjectLines.html
http://www.mailchimp.com/
Both are established in email marketing and metrics and thought these would be ideal clients to approach!
Getting back to the initial point I sent them an email outlining who I was, my project, my research into data visualisation and how it can benefit companies, drive traffic and engage users, my intentions and examples of my findings to date.
Haha, ok this is amazing, I have just received an email from the Co-Founder of the company who drives MailChimp as posted below:
“Anything nerdy, scientific, and visual. I’m all for it.
Let me know what you need. Plan ahead because it’ll take lots of pestering—we’re swamped, but we do want to help. I’m not sure if we posted it, but I do believe we have 2008 data as well.
Call me, or Mark with anything you need to get it done. We’re both co-founders here.
And yes, we’d post it on our site, and blog, and email newsletters. Make it look really, really cool.”
I am pretty excited about this now and can’t wait to get started!
