#data (103 links)
- Google - Internet Stats google.co.uk
Via markrocky.
- Climate Change: Evidence climate.nasa.gov
NASA says, "the evidence for rapid climate change is compelling".
- The Quantified Self kk.org
Build your own multi-purpose mobile self-tracking application.
Gives developers the ability to leverage cloud computing to build very precise streams of data from the millions and millions of tweets sent everyday.
- Welcome | ScraperWiki scraperwiki.com
All the tools you need for Screen Scraping & Data Mining.
- The Data-Driven Life - NYTimes.com nytimes.com
In the cozy confines of personal life, we rarely used the power of numbers. The techniques of analysis that had proved so effective were left behind at the office at the end of the day and picked up again the next morning. The imposition, on oneself or one’s family, of a regime of objective record keeping seemed ridiculous. A journal was respectable. A spreadsheet was creepy. And yet, almost imperceptibly, numbers are infiltrating the last redoubts of the personal. Sleep, exercise, sex, food, mood, location, alertness, productivity, even spiritual well-being are being tracked and measured, shared and displayed.
- Introduction sta.mn
Stamen's @shawnbot has put together a great context/history of dataviz for the class he is teaching at SVA in NYC:
- teach yourself datamining in 21 days « Armory Data Mining armorydatamine.wordpress.com
While it is important to understand how the algorithms work, it is not necessary to work the maths by hand. There are some first class freeware datamining programs available that do all the heavy lifting, so long as you know how to prepare the data and how to set the parameters of the algorithms so they produce valid results.
- Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: griotism anti-mega.com
Employing an internal data griot makes a lot of sense: someone who can spend the time looking for both large trends and individual needs and uses that illuminate and portend. It’s a hard job, needing a mix of skills rarely found – a smidgen of hard maths and statistics, a pinch of programming, and dessert spoons of various liberal arts. The Economist (sub required) posits them as data scientists (a position Flickr are currently looking for), but this misses the ability to ask interesting questions, and having hunches – being so immersed in the data that relevancy screams out."
- Factual factual.com
A platform where anyone can share and mash open data on any subject. For example, you might find a directory of US restaurants, a database of endocrinologists, or a list of video game cheat codes. We provide smart tools to help the community build and maintain a trusted source of structured data.
- Infochimps Data Marketplace / Commons: Download Sell or Share Databases, statistics, data sets for free infochimps.org
An open catalog and marketplace for the world's data. You can share, sell, curate, and download data about anything and everything.
- What is data science? - O'Reilly Radar radar.oreilly.com
Analysis: The future belongs to the companies and people that turn data into products.
Via russelldavies.
- adaptive path » blog » Kate Rutter » On Amsterdam, bikes and the Copenhagen Wheel thingy adaptivepath.com · Archived on
What makes my heart go pitty-pat is the swarm of data that the sensor in the wheel captures and transmits. Not only does it track info about the biker (riding time, effort, calories) but it also grabs info from the environment, like temperature, carbon monoxide, noise and humidity. You can share this info with friends, and also with your city by making an anonymous donation of your data. The end result? A community of data-contributors helping cities build more accurate models of routes, noise, carbon emissions and temperature. All this data can be used inform urban planning, transit systems and environmental policies in service to sustainable cities.
- Facebook Allowed Automatic Data Sharing Last November | Social Hacking theharmonyguy.com
The current Facebook privacy policy already allows your “publicly available information,” which includes your name, gender, geographic region, friends list, fan pages, and your content marked “everyone,” to be automatically shared with external web sites when you visit them. The only thing apparently preventing this from happening right now is technology – Facebook has not yet rolled out an official means for Facebook Connect sites to automatically access such data. Apparently they soon plan on adding that technology for certain “pre-approved” sites, an update which the newer governing documents make more explicit.
- Time Zones everytimezone.com
Never warp your brain with time zone math again.
Via gilest.
- How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online? | Information Is Beautiful informationisbeautiful.net
How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online?
- Bulletproof backups for MySQL | Carsonified carsonified.com
What my shell script does is allow you to automate correctly backing up a standard MySQL database, or databases, with full end-to-end encryption to an offsite location.
- A first step towards freeing London’s data | London DataStore data.london.gov.uk
The prototype Datastore for London. This is where we’ll be releasing all of the Greater London Authority’s data for all Londoners to see and use free of charge.
Via demwunz.
- russell davies: datadecs russelldavies.typepad.com
This is wonderful.
Although these stories are reports about medical research, they are really about computing – in the sense that neither would have been possible without the application of serious computer power to masses of data. In that way they reflect a new – but so far unacknowledged – reality; that in many important fields leading-edge scientific research cannot be done without access to vast computational and data-handling facilities, with sophisticated software for analysing huge data-sets.
- Why The data: URI Scheme Could Help Save Your Slow Site sitepoint.com
Lots of caveats but useful under certain circumstances.
We are making more of our geological data available in open formats so that they can be used in mashup type applications within software such as Google Earth (please note the terms and conditions of use for Google's and any other software). We hope these services stimulate innovative uses of our data and promote interoperability.
Many of the BGS's most popular datasets are available to search and view online.
- Hack Day tools for non-developers simonwillison.net
For our first hack day, I put together a list of “tools for non-developers”—sites, services and software that could be used for hacking without programming knowledge as a pre-requisite. Here’s the list so far.
- Real Time Carbon realtimecarbon.org
Each unit of UK electricity is currently causing this much CO2...
- Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store (robinsloan.com) robinsloan.com
Finally had a chance to read this. Very good; an Instapaper classic.
- Pachube :: blog: Pachube2SketchUp: realtime sensor data in SketchUp blog.pachube.com
"With this tool, you are able to import both realtime and historic Pachube data (i.e. sensor and environment data) into popular 3D CAD package Google SketchUp. The incoming data can be used to generate or modulate a 3D model of a building or environment, and enables sophisticated design-decisions that are based on actual (and not simulated) sensor and environment data. Possible uses include designing interactive façades, undertaking post-occupancy evaluation (which is where you evaluate how well the design performs) and sensor-based form generation." In love.
Via blackbeltjones.
- Indie Music Tech: Band Metrics Announces Music Data Exchange Format (MDEF) indiemusictech.com
Band Metrics decided to create the Music Data Exchange Format (MDEF), a free, open and portable XML based format for the purpose of sharing data relative to musicians and bands.
- Del.icio.us Finally Gets Some Respect from Yahoo - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
Two calls for Delicious data are now supported inside BOSS: the number of times a URL has been bookmarked and the top tags that users have applied to categorize that URL. Delicious has its own API, but it's not as helpful as this integration with BOSS is.
- #DataJourn part 1: a new conversation (please re-tweet) | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog blogs.journalism.co.uk · Archived on
In short: OU academic Tony Hirst produced a rather lovely map, on the suggestion (taunt?) of the Guardian’s technology editor, Charles Arthur, and the result? A brand new politics story for the Guardian on MPs’ expenses.
- Guardian opens APIs and data | Media | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
"The Guardian launched its 'Open Platform' with APIs for all of its content and a sets of data collected by its editors." Brave. Ace.
- UK mainland pub density map frisnit.com
Maps generated from the location data of over 28,000 pubs from www.beerintheevening.com. Each pixel on the maps corresponds to 6.5 km2 on the ground.
Via gilest.
- Free our data: Plenty of ideas for freeing government data and finding a loo | Technology | The Guardian guardian.co.uk
Winners announced.
- Brilliant Noise semiconductorfilms.com
Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun's finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form, revealing the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise. This grainy black and white quality is routinely cleaned up by NASA, hiding the processes and mechanics in action behind the capturing procedure.
Via headlessness.
- Aeracode :: South aeracode.org
Intelligent schema migrations for Django apps.
- information aesthetics - data visualization & visual design infosthetics.com
form follows data - data visualization & visual communication
- Show Us a Better Way showusabetterway.com
The UK Government wants to hear your ideas for new products that could improve the way public information is communicated.
- We need a Wikipedia for data - Bret Taylor's blog bret.appspot.com
I think we should create a Wikipedia for data: a global database for all of these important data sources to which we all contribute and that anyone can use.
- Tom Coates: Web of Data - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
Run-through of Tom Coates' latest presentation. Shame the slides themselves aren't available (nag, nag, nag).
- Many Eyes services.alphaworks.ibm.com
For shared visualization and discovery.
- Tasty Data Goodies - Swivel swivel.com
Explore and compare data, graphs and maps, Share insights via email, blog or data downloads, Upload the data you care about.
- BBC - Programmes bbc.co.uk
Provides information on all current TV and radio programmes across the BBC.