#data (103 links)
- Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same laurenleek.substack.com
A world that keeps removing the unlikely also removes the things that could have become the next likely. Ecologists have known this for a long time already and even priced it: they call it the insurance value of biodiversity, the standing reserve of rare species that cost energy and contribute nothing, until the climate shifts and one of them turns out to be what survives. A monoculture is efficient right up until the weather changes.
- How does food get traded around the world? | Our World in Data ourworldindata.org
Via marionnestle.
- Three things about data undermanager.ghost.io
Youch.
Via leebryant.
Digging deeper into the data, which comes from the Understanding America Study, we can see that people in their twenties and thirties in particular report feeling increasingly easily distracted and careless, less tenacious and less likely to make and deliver on commitments.
Via benterrett.
- Clear Off the Table darkhorseanalytics.com
In the gif below we start with a table formatted similar to one of Excel's many styling options which, much like the chart styles, do nothing to improve the table. Progressive deletions and some reorganization deliver a clearer and more compelling picture.
- tabulator-tables/tabulator github.com
Interactive Tables and Data Grids for JavaScript
- The Design Philosophy of Great Tables posit-dev.github.io
Tables—like plots—are crucial as a last step toward presenting information. There is surprising sophistication and nuance in designing effective tables. Over the past 5,000 years, they’ve evolved from simple grids to highly structured displays of data. Although we argue that the mid-1900s served as a high point, the popularization and wider accessibility of computing seemingly brought us back to the simple, ancient times.
Such AI-driven dynamic pricing is already a reality in mainland Europe, as grocery retailers such as DIA in Spain, Iper in Italy, Metro in Germany, and Hoogvliet in the Netherlands are rolling out the technology.
- New data institutions are the key to London’s growth standard.co.uk
London and the UK need to drive innovation to solve the challenges of our time. (Jonathan Brady/PA) PA Archive 28 July 2023 A little over 150 years ago, the…
- Snake Oil Supplements — Information is Beautiful informationisbeautiful.net
Scientific evidence for popular health supplements
- Corporate Legibility for Software Engineers matt.blwt.io
Corporate legibility is the art of making tasks, and their outcomes, easier to understand for those not directly involved.
- Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Data simonwillison.net
what they are, why you want one, how to build them and some of the interesting things you can do once you’ve set one up.
- Architecting data in Eleventy sia.codes
A theoretical and practical guide Marco Altini Nov 10, 2018 · 7 min read In a previous post, I’ve covered all the limitations of the Apple Watch in the context…
- RunGap - Workout Data Manager on the App Store apps.apple.com
- HealthFit on the App Store apps.apple.com
- +1 for healthfit. So glad I discovered it! I do exactly the same as you. I bar a... | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
+1 for healthfit. So glad I discovered it! I do exactly the same as you. I bar any other fitness apps from writing data directly to Apple Health (but allow them to read), with the exception of my Withings scales that are allowed to only write weight data.
- Welcome — Statistics Done Wrong statisticsdonewrong.com
Statistics Done Wrong¶ The woefully complete guide¶ If you’re a practicing scientist, you probably use statistics to analyze yourdata. From basic t tests and…
- The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction engineering.linkedin.com · Archived on
I joined LinkedIn about six years ago at a particularly interesting time. We were just beginning to run up against the limits of our monolithic, centralized…
- Statistics, Fast and Slow timharford.com
Written for and first published in the Financial Times on 13 April 2018. One way to understand China is to look at the statistics. Real income per person has…
A sample gene ontology model from http://wandora.org/wiki/Topic_map_conversion_of_Gene_Ontology For the last year I have been slowly moving to the realization…
- mdn/browser-compat-data github.com
Browser compatibility data for Web technologies as displayed on MDN
The “surveillance business model” of building up detailed electronic dossiers on internet users in order to predict what they want to buy and how to sell it to them produced some genuinely impressive results in its early years. The serendipity of seeing an ad for something you had been thinking about proved very powerful in the early days of Facebook and the first generation of “retargeting” services.
But a look at Facebook’s ad-card rates shows that the novelty of this technique wears off fast. Facebook was founded on the premise that it could use its mounting dossier on your behavior to figure out how to sell you things faster than your natural defenses would repel its pitches. If that ideology was borne out, you’d expect to see the company’s cost-per-thousand ad rates climbing into the stratosphere. Instead, they’re damned close to the rate you’ll pay for regular, minimally targeted display advertising elsewhere.
- Care.data is in chaos. It breaks my heart - Ben Goldacre theguardian.com
There are people in my profession who think they can ignore this problem. Some are murmuring that this mess is like MMR, a public misunderstanding to be corrected with better PR. They are wrong: it's like nuclear power. Medical data, rarefied and condensed, presents huge power to do good, but it also presents huge risks. When leaked, it cannot be unleaked; when lost, public trust will take decades to regain.
It gets worse.
It's painful for me to write critically about a project like care.data, because I love medical data, and I know the good it can do. We have a golden opportunity in the UK, with 60 million people cared for in one glorious NHS. Opt-outs would destroy the data, and the growing calls for an opt-in system would be worse: opt-in killed people by holding back organ donation, and more than that, it would exacerbate social inequality around data, because the poorest patients, those most likely to be unwell, are also the least engaged with services, the least likely to opt in. They would become invisible.
So here's my advice: if you're thinking of opting out – wait. If you run care.data – listen.
So frustrating.
- A simple guide to Care.data wired.co.uk
Investing too heavily in someone else’s proprietary system for too long rarely ends gracefully, but when it bites us, we have nobody to blame but ourselves.
- Climb every mountain: visualising the world's 50 highest peaks | News | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
"A multi-faceted visualisation of the world's 50 highest peaks. The interactive graphic, made using Tableau Public, features a clickable map of the summits, satellite images of each peak and figures for each mountain's prominence and overall elevation." Nice.
Via monospaced.
- Unhosted: separating web apps from data storage unhosted.org
"We break the package deal »you get our app, we get your data« with remoteStorage, a cross-origin data storage protocol separating application servers from data storage." Yes to the principle.
- Commercial Use of your API – why you should allow it | The London Biker thelondonbiker.com
Good suggestions for API access levels.
- Internet Video Archive internetvideoarchive.com
The entertainment industry's leading aggregator of movie and TV trailers, game previews, and music videos. With 500,000 unique video assets from over 1000 content providers, IVA has established a reputation as the archive of record for audio visual samples.
- google-refine - Project Hosting on Google Code code.google.com
A power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase.
- Hacker News | The Best Free and Open Source Data Mining Software news.ycombinator.com