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Michael E. Driscoll
I ♥ Big Data, analytics, and visualization. I blog at http://www.dataspora.com/blog
"Security is a false god; begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost." -Paul Bowles, via @sarawinge
Under the sheltering sky....
- Ellie K
RT @HackerNewsYC: Mining the tar sands of big data http://www.dataspora.com/blog...
RT @nathanmarz Simple examples are the best documentation.
The cost of data curation often exceeds the cost of data storage. Curate less, keep more.
Facebook as a platform for data-driven sociology: "Breakups - The Visual Miscellaneum" http://leebyron.com/what...
The rise of data products: "Internet firms are becoming a valuable source of economic insights"- @TheEconomist http://www.economist.com/node...
Printed books are going the way of vinyl records. Bookstores are for antiquarians.
RT @bradfordcross: It is hard to feel overconfident in your intellect when you know that someone else invented the bacon covered doughnut.
Part Nate Silver, part OKCupid: The Facebook Data Team crunches voter turnout http://www.facebook.com/notes... /via @DonMacLennan
Viz folks - What are some of the best information dashboards on the web?
data taxonomy is a swamp. no collective group or singular brilliance has ever built a schema that didn't break.
The final project in every college CS course should be: contribute a feature to an open-source project.
The final project in every college CS courses should be: contribute a feature to an open-source project.
How long until pro grammers are recruited & paid like pro athletes? Methinks a talent agency for engineers isn't far.
"Will our grandchildren use URLs?" @roybahat speaks on Rumors of the Web's Demise, 4pm @ Berkeley http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsand...
Word processing is not writing. Data processing is not analytics.
Many a complex financial instrument is more simply described as: "Heads I win, tails you lose."
How many visualization sins can you spot in this Fusion Charts demo? http://www.fusioncharts.com/demos...
"The power of Amazon's lock-in should not be underestimated." - http://informationarbitrage.com/post...
Facebook user data is a marketing researcher's wet dream, no wonder it's being leaked: http://gigaom.com/2010... (via Gigaom)
"The most powerful innovations are... platforms. Technologies that enable others to build on top of them." http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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A fantastic couple of days pondering opportunities in the Age of Data with @iaventures @infoarbitrage @mattcharris. Excited for the future.
In healthcare, privacy is dead. We can't control how information moves. We can regulate how it's used. (via @timoreilly)
"Navigational systems began by showing where we're driving. But soon they will stop showing us. They'll just drive us." - @timoreilly
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