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BlogsFour short links: 4 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 4, 2013 geo-bootstrap — Twitter Bootstrap fork that looks like a classic geocities page. Because. (via Narciso Jaramillo) Digital Public Library of America — public libraries sharing full text and metadata for scans, coordinating digitisation, maximum reuse. See The Verge piece. (via … Six lifestyle hacks for this yearBy Alistair CrollApril 4, 2013 The last three years haven’t been very healthy. In addition to raising a new daughter, I’ve been launching Strata and Startupfest and working with Ben Yoskovitz on Lean Analytics. It’s been rewarding, and fun, but it hasn’t been good for my … Where are JavaScript and the web going?By Simon St. LaurentApril 3, 2013 JavaScript and HTML5 just keep moving. One day it’s form validation, the next animation. Then it becomes full-on model view controller stacks getting data from sensors on devices and communicating with back-end servers that are themselves largely JavaScript. Peter Cooper … Visualization of the Week: Block-level electricity use in Los AngelesBy Jenn WebbApril 3, 2013 California Center for Sustainable Communities (CCSC) researcher Jacki Murdock, along with advisor Yoh Kawano, GIS Coordinator at the Institute for Digital Research and Education at UCLA, has developed an interactive map of electricity use in Los Angeles at the Census … Current state of formats and platformsBy Joe WikertApril 3, 2013 Remember the old days when PDF was pretty much the only way to distribute content and those PDFs were read on computer screens? PDF still lives, of course, but now we’re also faced with offering content in mobi and EPUB … Aereo’s copyright solution: intentional inefficiencyBy Mac SlocumApril 3, 2013 Aereo, an online service that sends free over-the-air television broadcasts to subscribers, scored a big win in court this week. At first glance, it would seem the service has to violate copyright. Aereo is grabbing TV content without paying for … Four short links: 3 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 3, 2013 Capn Proto — open source faster protocol buffers (binary data interchange format and RPC system). Saddle — a high performance data manipulation library for Sacala. Vega — a visualization grammar, a declarative format for creating, saving and sharing visualization designs. … On the importance of imagination in data scienceBy Janaya WilliamsApril 2, 2013 According to Amy Heineike, the Director of Mathematics at Quid, there’s nothing like having a fresh dataset in R and knowing how to use it. “You can add a few lines of code and discover all kinds of interesting information,” … A first-time author builds his team and starts writing the storyBy Michael DaughertyApril 2, 2013 Last week I talked about the lessons learned from self-publishing boot camp. After the boot camp ended I knew I had a lot to learn. I liked the business challenges that I was seeing. For a guy coming in out … If you’ve ever wondered where those O’Reilly animal covers come from …By Mac SlocumApril 2, 2013 The exchange often goes like this: Stranger: “Where do you work?” Me: “O’Reilly Media.” Stranger: “O’Reilly …” [Long pause while he or she works through the various "O'Reilly" outlets — the TV guy, the auto parts company.] Me: “You know … A Short History of the O’Reilly AnimalsBy Edie FreedmanApril 2, 2013 How Lions, Tigers, and Tarsiers Went Geek In the mid-1980s, O’Reilly (aka O’Reilly & Associates) was selling short books on Unix topics via mail order. These books, known as “Nutshell Handbooks,” were held together by staples, and had plain brown … The post A Short History of the O’Reilly Animals appeared first on Animals. Four short links: 2 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 2, 2013 Analyzing mbostock’s queue.js — beautiful walkthrough of a small library, showing the how and why of good coding. What Job Would You Hire a Textbook To Do? (Karl Fisch) — notes from a Discovery Education “Beyond the Textbook” event. The … Pursuing data science as a second professionBy Janaya WilliamsApril 1, 2013 Yogi Saxena is not one to back down from a challenge. The distance runner ran in his first marathon just two years ago in order to win a bet. Next month, he competes in another grueling marathon, his third. And … Goodreads + Amazon: Winners and losersBy Joe WikertApril 1, 2013 I decided to wait a few days before writing about Amazon’s acquisition of Goodreads. I wanted to let the dust settle before weighing in with my own opinion. Now that I’ve had some time to mull it over, here’s what I … Libraries to become community publishing portalsBy Mark CokerApril 1, 2013 [Ed. note: The following first appeared on The Huffington Post. It has been reposted here with the author's permission.] Public libraries provide an essential community service by promoting literacy and a culture of reading. With the rise of ebooks, public … Four short links: 1 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 1, 2013 MLDemos — an open-source visualization tool for machine learning algorithms created to help studying and understanding how several algorithms function and how their parameters affect and modify the results in problems of classification, regression, clustering, dimensionality reduction, dynamical systems and … Data Science tools: Are you “all in” or do you “mix and match”?By Ben LoricaMarch 31, 2013 An integrated data stack boosts productivity As I noted in my previous post, Python programmers willing to go “all in”, have Python tools to cover most of data science. Lest I be accused of oversimplification, a Python programmer still needs … A bit about Strata Rx: our goals, our content, and youBy Julie SteeleMarch 29, 2013 After a strong inaugural event in October 2012, Strata Rx is heading into its second year. My fellow chair, Colin Hill, and I have spent a lot of time thinking about and discussing what we’d like to see on the … Four short links: 29 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 29, 2013 Titan 0.3 Out — graph database now has full-text, geo, and numeric-range index backends. Mozilla Security Community Do a Reddit AMA — if you wanted a list of sharp web security people to follow on Twitter, you could do a … Strata Week: Our phones are giving us awayBy Jenn WebbMarch 29, 2013 Mobile phone mobility traces ID users with only four data points A study published this week by Scientific Reports, Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility, shows that the location data in mobile phones is posing an … Publishing News: Goodreads readers are now valuable Amazon productsBy Jenn WebbMarch 29, 2013 Amazon marches on toward global retail domination The whiplash-inducing headline this week was Amazon’s announcement late Thursday that it has acquired book discovery and sharing site rival Goodreads. Industry response to the announcement was “swift and laced with skepticism,” Leslie … Large-Scale Data Collection and Real-Time Analytics Using RedisBy O'Reilly StrataMarch 28, 2013 By C. Aaron Cois Strata Santa Clara 2013 is a wrap, and I had a great time speaking and interacting with all of the amazing attendees. I’d like to recap the talk that Tim Palko and I gave, entitled “Large-Scale … Commerce Weekly: Reimagining the stages of retailBy Jenn WebbMarch 28, 2013 The basics remain key in our radically changing retail environment This week, PandoDaily’s Sarah Lacy addressed the issue of whether or not brick-and-mortar retail is dead and argued that it’s more “dying as we know it” than dead-dead. Lacy pointed … How crowdfunding and the JOBS Act will shape open source companiesBy Fred TrotterMarch 28, 2013 Currently, anyone can crowdfund products, projects, causes, and sometimes debt. Current U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations make crowdfunding companies (i.e. selling stocks rather than products on crowdfund platforms) illegal. The only way to sell stocks to the public at large … Four short links: 28 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 28, 2013 What American Startups Can Learn From the Cutthroat Chinese Software Industry — It follows that the idea of “viral” or “organic” growth doesn’t exist in China. “User acquisition is all about media buys. Platform-to-platform in China is war, and it … Let’s do this the hard wayBy Edd DumbillMarch 27, 2013 Recent discoveries of security vulnerabilities in Rails and MongoDB led me to thinking about how people get to write software. In engineering, you don’t get to build a structure people can walk into without years of study. In software, we … Visualization of the Week: MOOC completion ratesBy Jenn WebbMarch 27, 2013 Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, offered through platforms such as Coursera, EdX and Udacity, are arguably helping to fill higher education needs around the world. Educational researcher Katy Jordan noted in a post, however, that “although thousands enroll for … The coming of the industrial internetBy Jon BrunerMarch 27, 2013 Download this free report(PDF, Mobi, EPUB) The big machines that define modern life — cars, airplanes, furnaces, and so forth — have become exquisitely efficient, safe, and responsive over the last century through constant mechanical refinement. But mechanical refinement has … Inspired by children’s ebooksBy Joe WikertMarch 27, 2013 The third TOC Bologna took place this past Sunday on the eve of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. It was a terrific show and closed with a session announcing the winners of the Bologna Ragazzi Awards for digital publishing. You’ll … Author by necessityBy Michael DaughertyMarch 27, 2013 So what am I doing here? As President & CEO of LabMD, Inc., a uropathology medical laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia, (we test blood, urine, and tissue for cancer and other medical issues), this is not my normal venue. However, shockingly, I … Four short links: 27 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 27, 2013 The Effect of Group Attachment and Social Position on Prosocial Behavior (PLoSone) — notable, in my mind, for We conducted lab-in-the-field experiments involving 2,597 members of producer organizations in rural Uganda. cf the recently reported “rich are more selfish than … Returning transactions to distributed data storesBy O'Reilly StrataMarch 26, 2013 By David Rosenthal and Stephen Pimentel Rise of NoSQL Database technologies are undergoing rapid evolution, with new approaches being actively explored after decades of relative stability. As late as 2008, the term “NoSQL” barely existed and relational databases were both … Dangerous ideas from the world of startupsBy Todd SatterstenMarch 26, 2013 Dustin Kurtz, marketing manager at Melville House, wrote a piece last week about the incursion of startup vocabulary in the world of book publishing. He says: [N]ow the models and the metaphors of the tech industry are, full-throatedly, without embarrassment, being used … Four short links: 26 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 26, 2013 Patent on Medical Trial Design to Reduce Placebo Effect — drug companies say these failures are happening not because their drugs are ineffective, but because placebos have recently become more effective in clinical trials. [...] The whole idea that placebo … The media-marketing mergeBy Mac SlocumMarch 25, 2013 I ran across a program Forbes is running called BrandVoice that gives marketers a place on Forbes’ digital platform. During a brief audio interview with TheMediaBriefing, Forbes European managing director Charles Yardley explained how BrandVoice works: “It’s quite simply a … Mobile native publishing: The rise of dynamic content servicesBy Mark SigalMarch 25, 2013 One reason that industry disruptions prove so vexing to market leaders is that disruptive waves simultaneously barrel through assumptions about customer needs, industry economics and operational best practices. Consider the case of the motion picture business, an industry that was disrupted … Four short links: 25 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 25, 2013 Analytics for Learning — Since doing good learning analytics is hard, we often do easy learning analytics and pretend that they are good instead. But pretending doesn’t make it so. (via Dan Meyer) Reproducible Research — a list of links … Python data tools just keep getting betterBy Ben LoricaMarch 24, 2013 Here are a few observations inspired by conversations I had during the just concluded PyData conference1. The Python data community is well-organized: Besides conferences (PyData, SciPy, EuroSciPy), there is a new non-profit (NumFOCUS) dedicated to supporting scientific computing and data … Talk the Talk, Walk the Dead 
By Peter DrescherMarch 23, 2013 This is a story about a video game with the emotional power of a movie. The Other IvoryBy Edie FreedmanMarch 23, 2013 How a South American tree could help save African elephants “…the demand for polished ivory has pushed the world’s largest living land animal to the brink of extinction. Across the Atlantic Ocean, in a land that was once connected to … The post The Other Ivory appeared first on Animals. Strata Week: Using data to maximize our human potentialBy Jenn WebbMarch 22, 2013 Big data’s big social impact In partnership with the Harvard Business Review, the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship has been running a series of posts addressing and debating big data’s potential for large-scale social impact. A couple posts from … Publishing News: The SCOTUS “first sale” ruling spells trouble ahead for publishersBy Jenn WebbMarch 22, 2013 Publishers express disappointment in SCOTUS “first sale” ruling Headline news this week was the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of the student textbook seller in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., in which the court upheld the “first … Change is the vehicle for publishing’s future, not the catalyst of its demiseBy Jenn WebbMarch 22, 2013 At the recent TOC conference in New York, Intel futurist Brian David Johnson (@IntelFuturist) gave a keynote address about changing the future. It’s so simple, he said, but changing the future requires us only to “change the story that people … Sensoring the newsBy Alex HowardMarch 22, 2013 When I went to the 2013 SXSW Interactive Festival to host a conversation with NPR’s Javaun Moradi about sensors, society and the media, I thought we would be talking about the future of data journalism. By the time I left … Four short links: 22 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 22, 2013 Defend the Open Web: Keep DRM Out of W3C Standards (EFF) — W3C is there to create comprehensible, publicly-implementable standards that will guarantee interoperability, not to facilitate an explosion of new mutually-incompatible software and of sites and services that can … Commerce Weekly: The lucrative art of tracking shopper behaviorBy Jenn WebbMarch 21, 2013 Snooping on shoppers pays off Liz Gannes took a look this week at how online retailers’ desires to track consumers’ shopping habits are resulting in emerging startups offering services to track various behaviors on behalf of retailers. In a post … Four short links: 21 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 21, 2013 The Obfuscation of Culture — Tumblr and LJ users sep ar ate w ords thr ou gh o dd spacin g in o rde r to fo ol sea rc h en g i nes. Chinese users hide political messages … The demise of Google Reader: Stability as a serviceBy Mike LoukidesMarch 21, 2013 Om Malik’s brief post on the demise of Google Reader raises a good point: If we can’t trust Google to keep successful applications around, why should we bother trying to use their new applications, such as Google Keep? Given the … Commerce Weekly: The lucrative art of tracking shopper behaviorBy Jenn WebbMarch 21, 2013 Snooping on shoppers pays off Liz Gannes took a look this week at how online retailers’ desires to track consumers’ shopping habits are resulting in emerging startups offering services to track various behaviors on behalf of retailers. In a post … Broadening consults and narrowing queries: HealthTap’s social networkBy Andy OramMarch 21, 2013 Noting the power of social media in situations ranging from the marketing of sneakers to the overthrow of autocratic regimes, many health care thinkers have suggested a greater use of social media by doctors and people seeking information on health … 201 to 250 of 11230 Prev Next |
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