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Strata Week: Data Without Borders
Here are some of the data stories that caught my attention this week: Data without borders Data is everywhere. That much we know. But the usage of and benefit from data is not evenly distributed, and...
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Strata Week: The social graph that isn’t
Here are a few of the data stories that caught my attention this week: Not social. Not a graph. It’s hardly surprising that the founder of a “bookmarking site for introverts” would have something to...
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Visualization of the Week: Visualizing your friends’ Facebook likes
What do your Facebook friends have in common? (Well, other than all being your Facebook friend, of course.) What “likes” do they share? Tony Hirst, a lecturer in the Department of Communication and...
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Visualization of the Week: Clustering your social graph
In early 2011, LinkedIn released InMaps, a way to visualize your network and see the clusters into which people fall, based on where you shared employment or education, for example. (You can read...
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GraphChi: Graph analytics over billions of edges using your laptop
GraphChi is a spinoff project of GraphLab, an open source, distributed, in-memory software system for analytics and machine-learning. Designed specifically to run on a single computer with limited...
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Improving options for unlocking your graph data
The popular open source project GraphLab received a major boost early this week when a new company comprised of its founding developers, raised funding to develop analytic tools for graph data sets....
View ArticleFour short links: 10 May 2013
The Remixing Dilemma — summary of research on remixed projects, finding that (1) Projects with moderate amounts of code are remixed more often than either very simple or very complex projects. (2)...
View ArticleFour short links: 31 May 2013
Modeling Users’ Activity on Twitter Networks: Validation of Dunbar’s Number (PLoSone) — In this paper we analyze a dataset of Twitter conversations collected across six months involving 1.7 million...
View ArticleFour short links: 12 July 2013
How Well Does Name Analysis Work? (Pete Warden) — explanation of how those “turn a name into gender/ethnicity/etc” routines work, and how accurate they are. Age has the weakest correlation with names....
View ArticleFour short links: 7 January 2014
Pebble Gets App Store (ReadWrite Web) — as both Pebble and MetaWatch go after the high-end watch market. Wearables becoming more than a nerd novelty. Thinking About the Network as Filter (JP...
View ArticleFour short links: 15 January 2014
Hackers Gain ‘Full Control’ of Critical SCADA Systems (IT News) — The vulnerabilities were discovered by Russian researchers who over the last year probed popular and high-end ICS and supervisory...
View ArticleFour short links: 17 February 2014
imsg — use iMessage from the commandline. Facebook Data Science Team Posts About Love — I tell people, “this is what you look like to SkyNet.” A System for Detecting Software Plagiarism — the research...
View ArticleFour short links: 21 February 2014
Mapping Twitter Topic Networks (Pew Internet) — Conversations on Twitter create networks with identifiable contours as people reply to and mention one another in their tweets. These conversational...
View ArticleFour short links: 9 June 2014
textql — execute SQL against structured text like CSV or TSV. Social Network Structure of Fake Friends — author bought 4,000 Twitter followers and studied their relationships. Hidden Biases in Big...
View ArticleFour short links: 5 August 2014
Discussion Graph Tool (Microsoft Research) — simplifies social media analysis by making it easy to extract high-level features and co-occurrence relationships from raw data. Superlinear Productivity...
View ArticleFour short links: 13 February 2015
What Happened to Web Intents (Paul Kinlan) — I love post-mortems, and this is a thoughtful one. Apache NiFi — incubated open source project for data flow. Tug Hospital Robot (Wired) — It may have an...
View ArticleFour short links: 1 April 2015
Facebook’s Mystery Machine — The goal of this paper is very similar to that of Google Dapper[…]. Both work [to] try to figure out bottlenecks in performance in high fanout large-scale Internet...
View ArticleFour short links: 15 April 2015
Facebook Biometrics Cache (Business Insider) — Facebook has been accused of violating the privacy of its users by collecting their facial data, according to a class-action lawsuit filed last week....
View ArticleFour short links: 2 October 2015
Announcing Otto — new Hashicorp tool that automatically builds development environments without any configuration; it can detect your project type and has built-in knowledge of industry-standard tools...
View ArticleFour short links: 28 October 2015
Librarian of Congress Grants Limited DRM-Breaking Rights (Cory Doctorow) — The Copyright Office said you will be able to defeat locks on your car’s electronics, provided: You wait a year first (the...
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