Welcome to the Anthropocene
"A 3-minute journey through the last 250 years of our history, from the
start of the Industrial Revolution to the Rio+20 Summit. The film charts
the growth of humanity into a global force on an equivalent scale to
major geological processes.
The film was commissioned by the Planet Under Pressure conference,
London 26-29 March, a major international conference focusing on
solutions.
planetunderpressure2012.net
The film is part of the world's first educational webportal on the
Anthropocene, commissioned by the Planet Under Pressure conference, and
developed and sponsored by
anthropocene.info..."
Monday 30 April 2012
Article Link: Big Data's Big Problem: Little Talent
We always love hearing what Hilary Mason has to say – as chief data scientist at bit.ly she always has a pragmatic and interesting approach to the big topic of big data!
"...Hilary Mason [...] says a data scientist must have three key skills. "They can take a data set and model it mathematically and understand the math required to build those models; they can actually do that, which means they have the engineering skills…and finally they are someone who can find insights and tell stories from their data. That means asking the right questions, and that is usually the hardest piece."..."
Despite the shortage of these multi-talented data experts (as Hilary points out in the short interview video embedded in this article) there are many tools becoming available and specialized education programs which are specifically engineered to help businesses and individuals deal with the deluge of data.
Read more here.
We always love hearing what Hilary Mason has to say – as chief data scientist at bit.ly she always has a pragmatic and interesting approach to the big topic of big data!
"...Hilary Mason [...] says a data scientist must have three key skills. "They can take a data set and model it mathematically and understand the math required to build those models; they can actually do that, which means they have the engineering skills…and finally they are someone who can find insights and tell stories from their data. That means asking the right questions, and that is usually the hardest piece."..."
Despite the shortage of these multi-talented data experts (as Hilary points out in the short interview video embedded in this article) there are many tools becoming available and specialized education programs which are specifically engineered to help businesses and individuals deal with the deluge of data.
Read more here.
Sunday 29 April 2012
Beautiful visualization by Evan Westvang
"300.000 Norwegians move house every year. If the pattern made by this process could be compressed into one short animation, what would would it look like? What could you learn about your country from such an animation, if anything?
Deluge is a C++ application designed to answer these questions. The underlying data was generated by cross referencing Norwegian tax records from 2006 and 2007 to find changes in postal codes..."
"300.000 Norwegians move house every year. If the pattern made by this process could be compressed into one short animation, what would would it look like? What could you learn about your country from such an animation, if anything?
Deluge is a C++ application designed to answer these questions. The underlying data was generated by cross referencing Norwegian tax records from 2006 and 2007 to find changes in postal codes..."
Monday 23 April 2012
Article Link: Business Intelligence and Analytics in High School Sports
It's exciting to think that high-schoolers are being exposed to this type of problem solving – just think of the future data scientists that might get a chance to see things a different way!
"...Amazingly, this high school coach was but one of 475 high school coaches across the country that have paid a New York-based company named Krossover as much as $2,000 a year to take their digital game film and break it down into some of the most advanced metrics that youth basketball has ever seen..."
Read more here
It's exciting to think that high-schoolers are being exposed to this type of problem solving – just think of the future data scientists that might get a chance to see things a different way!
"...Amazingly, this high school coach was but one of 475 high school coaches across the country that have paid a New York-based company named Krossover as much as $2,000 a year to take their digital game film and break it down into some of the most advanced metrics that youth basketball has ever seen..."
Read more here
Tuesday 17 April 2012
CBO Budget Infographics
Great to see infographics making important information more accessible and easy to digest.
"...These infographics provide a more detailed look at the material presented in CBO's infographic on the federal budget—released last December—which provided an overview of some key elements of the budget and a visual history of the budget deficit and federal debt over the past 40 years..."
Read and see more here.
Great to see infographics making important information more accessible and easy to digest.
"...These infographics provide a more detailed look at the material presented in CBO's infographic on the federal budget—released last December—which provided an overview of some key elements of the budget and a visual history of the budget deficit and federal debt over the past 40 years..."
Read and see more here.
Sunday 15 April 2012
Article link: San Francisco startup makes data science a sport by Marcus Wohlsen
"An orange used car is less likely to be a lemon" is just one of the facts revealed through the data exploration of competitive number-crunchers SirGuessalot and PlanetThanet.
Read more on some more of the interesting practical applications of data mining and how data scientists deserve the salaries of athletes here.
Article by Marucs Wohlsen on Bloomberg Businessweek
UK National Heatmap
"...The data is based on models that drill down to an individual address level, yet did not acquire actual energy bills or smart metering. The map is meant for developers and planners to figure out which areas would be suitable for the development of local heat networks, or to support future climate change strategies..." (From Andrew Vande Moer at infosthetics)
This screen shot shows commercial heat density with regional boundaries.
Have a look at the visualization for yourself and try the different layers describing heat density in different sectors. The view of the entire country shows an expected pattern–highly concentrated areas over the bigger cities–but it is interesting to zoom in to a local level for more detail.
Created by the Centre for Sustainable Energy.
Linked from the Guardian Data Blog and infosthetics.
"...The data is based on models that drill down to an individual address level, yet did not acquire actual energy bills or smart metering. The map is meant for developers and planners to figure out which areas would be suitable for the development of local heat networks, or to support future climate change strategies..." (From Andrew Vande Moer at infosthetics)
This screen shot shows commercial heat density with regional boundaries.
Have a look at the visualization for yourself and try the different layers describing heat density in different sectors. The view of the entire country shows an expected pattern–highly concentrated areas over the bigger cities–but it is interesting to zoom in to a local level for more detail.
Created by the Centre for Sustainable Energy.
Linked from the Guardian Data Blog and infosthetics.
Monday 9 April 2012
Visualizing the Global Digital Divide By
Mapping Internet And Population
Beautiful visualizations by Gregor Aisch.
"...With this map I tried to visualize the global digital divide. It shows more than 80,000 populated places in blue and about 350,000 locations of IP addresses in red..." [image shown is only a small frame of the full visualization, see the full version here]
See more great work on his blog vis4.
Mapping Internet And Population
Beautiful visualizations by Gregor Aisch."...With this map I tried to visualize the global digital divide. It shows more than 80,000 populated places in blue and about 350,000 locations of IP addresses in red..." [image shown is only a small frame of the full visualization, see the full version here]
See more great work on his blog vis4.
Designing Data Visualizations with Noah Iliinsky
In this talk, Noah lays out a great framework for how to determine what question you are actually trying to answer, what data you need (and what you don't) in order to answer that question, and the steps to take through effective visualization to convey the bottom line.
Need help? Talk to bis²!
Wednesday 4 April 2012
Stefanie Posavec: finding data everyday
Stefanie Posavec takes a humanistic approach to data – discovering and depicting the "hidden data" in everyday things. Posavec's illustrations depict the patterns behind everyday objects, helping to portray the familiar in a new light.
See more of her beautiful work here.
Stefanie Posavec takes a humanistic approach to data – discovering and depicting the "hidden data" in everyday things. Posavec's illustrations depict the patterns behind everyday objects, helping to portray the familiar in a new light.
See more of her beautiful work here.
Article link: "NASA Creates Insanely High-Res Map Of America’s Trees, And Offers A Lesson In Information Design" from Tim Maly at Co.Design
"According to Robert Simmon, art director of NASA’s Earth Observatory, the best science communication goes in layers. You start out with something striking and relatable, and then you invite your audience to go deeper, revealing more and more with each new layer..."
Head to Co.Design to read more of this fantastic article here.
Article Link: Data analytics driving medical breakthroughs by Esther Shein
Some very exciting times in data analytics – helping the health care system process and interpret data in order to discover break-through patterns in patient care and recovery.
"Thanks to a new technology partnership, the hospital is working to use analytics to predict more accurately than ever before which premature babies are at most risk for disease and infection."
"...The technology is giving UOIT the ability to make sense of the data and analyze it in ways that include, they hope, discovering the onset of sepsis and various other conditions before these problems occur, says Dr. Carolyn McGregor, the Canada Research Chair in Health Informatics at UOIT..."
Read more here.
Some very exciting times in data analytics – helping the health care system process and interpret data in order to discover break-through patterns in patient care and recovery.
"Thanks to a new technology partnership, the hospital is working to use analytics to predict more accurately than ever before which premature babies are at most risk for disease and infection."
"...The technology is giving UOIT the ability to make sense of the data and analyze it in ways that include, they hope, discovering the onset of sepsis and various other conditions before these problems occur, says Dr. Carolyn McGregor, the Canada Research Chair in Health Informatics at UOIT..."
Read more here.
Monday 2 April 2012
Article Link: Why data visualization matters
by Julie Steele on Radar
"...The best data visualizations are ones that expose something new about the underlying patterns and relationships contained within the data. Understanding those relationships — and being able to observe them — is key to good decision making..."
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by Julie Steele on Radar
"...The best data visualizations are ones that expose something new about the underlying patterns and relationships contained within the data. Understanding those relationships — and being able to observe them — is key to good decision making..."
Read More
Sunday 1 April 2012
Micro Fashion Network is a stunning project by Burak Arikan and Ben Dalton.
"A fixed camera and custom software
process and store the dominant colors of moving people in Cambridge's
busy neighborhoods. Similar colors connected to each other form a large
color network over time. As the network grows, the new vertices are
connected to existing similar colors; because of this preferential
attachment model, we see the power law distribution and the highly
connected dense color hubs in the resulting images. In the resulting
demonstration, three different artistic representations are put side
by side: captured human figures, color information as abstract boxes,
and the complex network of colors."
See and read more here.
Twingly Screensaver:
Visualizing The Blogoshpere
"Twingly screensaver is visualizing the global blog activity in real time. Forget RSS readers where you see only what you're interested in. With Twingly screensaver you get a 24/7 stream of all (viewer discretion advised) blog activity, straight to your screen. To use the screensaver you need a PC with Windows and a graphics card supporting OpenGL..."
This is great! We wish our computers would get a chance to rest so we could actually get to see it!
Visualizing The Blogoshpere
"Twingly screensaver is visualizing the global blog activity in real time. Forget RSS readers where you see only what you're interested in. With Twingly screensaver you get a 24/7 stream of all (viewer discretion advised) blog activity, straight to your screen. To use the screensaver you need a PC with Windows and a graphics card supporting OpenGL..."
This is great! We wish our computers would get a chance to rest so we could actually get to see it!
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