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BlogsVisualization of the Week: Building collapse rescue effortsBy Jenn WebbMay 8, 2013 In the wake of recent building collapses, the BBC addressed the question of what goes into the rescue efforts by creating an interactive guide outlining how rescuers approach a collapsed building. Using information from the International Rescue Corps, the BBC … JavaScript: Not as ExpectedBy Simon St. LaurentMay 8, 2013 JavaScript’s ever-growing importance still takes people by surprise. Every time I post about things JavaScript makes possible, I get pushback from people who refuse to be impressed by JavaScript. Why? Because it isn’t what they wanted. In the course of … How to Develop for the Mobile Casual Gaming MarketBy Jenn WebbMay 8, 2013 HTML5 is becoming a larger and larger part of game design—so much so that Jesse Freeman (@jessefreeman) expects the future of HTML5 gaming to go beyond the browser. In the following interview, Freeman, a technology evangelist at Microsoft focusing on … Four short links: 8 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 8, 2013 How to Build a Working Digital Computer Out of Paperclips (Evil Mad Scientist) — from a 1967 popular science book showing how to build everything from parts that you might find at a hardware store: items like paper clips, little … On becoming a code artistBy Ann SpencerMay 7, 2013 Scott Murray, a code artist, has written Interactive Data Visualization for the Web for nonprogrammers. In this interview, Scott provides some insights on what inspired him to write an introduction to D3 for artists, graphic designers, journalists, researchers, or anyone … A different take on data skepticismBy Beau CroninMay 7, 2013 Recently, the Mathbabe (aka Cathy O’Neil) vented some frustration about the pitfalls in applying even simple machine learning (ML) methods like k-nearest neighbors. As data science is democratized, she worries that naive practitioners will shoot themselves in the foot because these tools can … Steering the ship that is data scienceBy Q Ethan McCallumMay 7, 2013 Mike Loukides recently recapped a conversation we’d had about leading indicators for data science efforts in an organization. We also pondered where the role of data scientist is headed and realized we could treat software development as a prototype case. … Four Short Links: 7 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 7, 2013 Raspberry Pi Wireless Attack Toolkit — A collection of pre-configured or automatically-configured tools that automate and ease the process of creating robust Man-in-the-middle attacks. The toolkit allows your to easily select between several attack modes and is specifically designed to … Cutting Your Programming Teeth on JavaScriptBy Elisabeth RobsonMay 7, 2013 JavaScript is a bit different from other programming languages. How? Well, JavaScript runs in an environment, and that’s usually the browser. So when you learn JavaScript, you’ll learn both the language basics, as well as how to use JavaScript in … Another Serving of Data SkepticismBy Mike LoukidesMay 6, 2013 I was thrilled to receive an invitation to a new meetup: the NYC Data Skeptics Meetup. If you’re in the New York area, and you’re interested in seeing data used honestly, stop by! That announcement pushed me to write another … Farmers, Elephants, and Bees: A Winning CombinationBy Edie FreedmanMay 6, 2013 As if African elephants didn’t have enough to worry about, habitat loss is yet another key issue affecting their survival. Although elephant populations have increased since the 1970s, the human population has grown even more quickly, cutting the elephants’ habitat … The post Farmers, Elephants, and Bees: A Winning Combination appeared first on Animals. Upward Mobility: Unit Testing Core DataBy James TurnerMay 6, 2013 One of the more common issues that arises in creating OCUnit tests in iOS is how to test code that uses Core Data. There are several challenges, but with a little foresight, you can be sailing right along. The first … Four short links: 6 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 6, 2013 Nautilus — elegantly-designed science web ‘zine. Includes Artificial Emotions on AI, neuro, and psych efforts to recognise and simulate emotions. A Short Essay on 3D Printing — This hands-off approach to culpability cannot last long. If you design something to … Tech Events You Don’t Want to MissBy Jenn WebbMay 6, 2013 Each Monday, we round up upcoming event highlights from the programming and technology spaces. Have an event to share? Send us a note. Boston Web Performance Meetup: Tim Locke addresses solutions to scalability challenges and presents an alternative solution based … Scalable streaming analytics using a single-serverBy Ben LoricaMay 5, 2013 For many organizations real-time1 analytics entails complex event processing systems (CEP) or newer distributed stream processing frameworks like Storm, S4, or Spark Streaming. The latter have become more popular because they are able to scale (ingest) massive amounts of data, … When industrial revolutions collideBy Jim StogdillMay 3, 2013 Jon Bruner and I continued our Radar coffee talk series of conversations at Astro Coffee in Detroit’s Corktown. In the shadow of the abandoned Michigan Central Station we reflected on what we think of as a collision between the second … Strata Week: The power of the Internet, wielded by machines and thingsBy Jenn WebbMay 3, 2013 Soon, everything will be an Internet platform Ben Schiller at Fast Company took a look this week at a recent report by Jon Bruner on the industrial Internet. “According to Jon Bruner [the industrial Internet] is ‘machines becoming nodes on … Four short links: 3 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 3, 2013 Causal Entropic Forces (PDF) — new paper from Sci Foo alum Alex Wissner-Gross connecting intelligence and entropy. (via Inside Science) Nyan Cat and Keyboard Cat Are Trademarked Memes (Ars Technica) — the business of this (presumably there will be royalties … Weekly Highlights and Insights: April 29-May 3By Adam FlahertyMay 3, 2013 Leading Indicators: Over on O’Reilly Radar, Mike Loukides and Q Ethan McCallum come up with a few ideas for evaluating an organization’s data science program from the “outside.” CSS Selectors as Superpowers: Simon St. Laurent hopes that “the success of … A very serious game that can cure the orphan diseasesBy Andy OramMay 2, 2013 In the inspiring tradition of Foldit, the game for determining protein shapes, Fit2Cure crowdsources the problem of finding drugs that can cure the many under-researched diseases of developing countries. Fit2Cure appeals to the player’s visual–even physical–sense of the world, and … Leading IndicatorsBy Mike LoukidesMay 2, 2013 In a conversation with Q Ethan McCallum (who should be credited as co-author), we wondered how to evaluate data science groups. If you’re looking at an organization’s data science group from the outside, possibly as a potential employee, what can … Ending the TOC Conference, But Still Pushing Tools of Change for PublishingBy Tim O'ReillyMay 2, 2013 O’Reilly has been publishing books since 1986, but I’ve often said that we consider ourselves more of a technology transfer company than a typical publisher. Twenty years after our first book, Unix in a Nutshell, we realized that the insights … Cultural capital goes commercialBy Julia ErrensMay 2, 2013 It wasn’t one of my proudest moments when, a week before Christmas last year, I was hunched over my smartphone towards the back of the famous Hamley’s Toy Store on London’s Regent Street, composure tethered to an elusive bar of … Why ebooks & why green e-publishing?By Deborah EminMay 2, 2013 Perhaps you’ve also wondered why the publishing industry produces and distributes all the major climate science information available but doesn’t read it. If it did, publishing could become the standard bearer for global reduction of carbon footprints. This business challenge … Conquering iOS Core DataBy Rachel RoumeliotisMay 2, 2013 Joshua Smith (@kognate) is a Lead Mobile Developer at iRx Reminder, frequent Cocoa Conference speaker and author of an upcoming book with O’Reilly on core data. We recently sat down to talk about core data and its complexities. What exactly … Towards a more open worldBy Alex HowardMay 1, 2013 Last September, I gave a 5 minute Ignite talk at the tenth Ignite DC. The video just became available. My talk, embedded below, focused on what I’ve been writing about here at Radar for the past three years: open government, … iOS Core DataBy Rachel RoumeliotisMay 1, 2013 Joshua Smith talks about why Core Data in iOS is so difficult to master and why it is worth mastering it. Visualization of the Week: A DDoS attack on VideoLAN downloads infrastructureBy Jenn WebbMay 1, 2013 In the wake of a recent DDoS attack on open source software distributor VideoLAN, developer Ludovic Fauvet created a video visualization to show what the attack looked like. As Ryan W. Neal notes in a post at International Business Times, … Earned Attention: More than a stack of paperBy Joe WikertMay 1, 2013 As an industry I think we’re getting weary of all the various “rich content” experiments and products floating around these days. I have to admit that most make me want to yawn and move on to the next item in … CSS Selectors as SuperpowersBy Simon St. LaurentMay 1, 2013 After years of complaints about Cascading Style Sheets, many stemming from their deliberately declarative nature, it’s time to recognize their power. For developers coming from imperative programming styles, it might seem hard to lose the ability to specify more complex … Numbers never lie…unless you’re talking social mediaBy Rob EagarApril 30, 2013 Back in college, I took a class on statistics and never forgot the first lesson my professor taught us, which was, “Anyone can manipulate numbers to make them mean whatever they want.” I see this point magnified today by the … Linking open data to augmented intelligence and the economyBy Alex HowardApril 30, 2013 After years of steady growth, open data is now entering into public discourse, particularly in the public sector. If President Barack Obama decides to put the White House’s long-awaited new open data mandate before the nation this spring, it will … Leading IndicatorsBy Mike LoukidesApril 30, 2013 In a conversation with Q Ethan McCallum (who should be credited as co-author), we wondered how to evaluate data science groups. If you’re looking at an organization’s data science group from the outside, possibly as a potential employee, what can … Location, Location, LocationBy Elisabeth RobsonApril 30, 2013 Everyone knows you add JavaScript to your page by putting your <script> element at the top of your HTML page, right? Not so fast. In part two of Head First JavaScript Programming Teasers, Eric explains the nuts and bolts of … Drupal for DesignersBy Meghan BlanchetteApril 30, 2013 Dani Nordin (@danigrrl) is an O’Reilly author (Drupal for Designers) and UX designer. We sat down recently to catch up on her current projects and her predictions for the future of Drupal design. She shared some best practices for designing, … Data sharing drives diagnoses and cures, if we can get there (part 2)By Andy OramApril 29, 2013 Editor’s note: Earlier this week, Part 1 of this article described Sage Bionetworks, a recent Congress they held, and their way of promoting data sharing through a challenge. Data sharing is not an unfamiliar practice in genetics. Plenty of cell … Data sharing drives diagnoses and cures, if we can get there (part 1)By Andy OramApril 29, 2013 The glowing reports we read of biotech advances almost cause one’s brain to ache. They leave us thinking that medical researchers must command the latest in all technological tools. But the engines of genetic and pharmaceutical innovation are stuttering for … LinkedIn as publisherBy Joe WikertApril 29, 2013 I’m drawn to LinkedIn now more than ever before. The rate of connection requests I’ve been receiving there has also been accelerating over the past few months. Maybe it’s due to all the uncertainty of the publishing industry but I … White House Science Fair praises future scientists and makersBy Alex HowardApril 29, 2013 There are few ways to better judge a nation’s character than to look at how its children are educated. What values do their parents, teachers and mentors demonstrate? What accomplishments are celebrated? In a world where championship sports teams are … Pricing decisions are going to be made whether you have analytics behind it or notBy Janaya WilliamsApril 29, 2013 In his role as chief scientist at Atlanta-based consulting firm Revenue Analytics, Jon Higbie helps clients make sound pricing decisions for everything from hotel rooms, to movie theater popcorn, to that carton of OJ in the fridge. And in the … German digital publishing – the Berlin wayBy Ruediger WischenbartApril 29, 2013 My favorite number at the first TOC buchreport in Berlin on April 23rd was 20, as in 20% of the 2.4 million ebook buyers in Germany in 2012 had not bought any books in the previous twelve months, according to … Google Glass and the FutureBy Mike LoukidesApril 29, 2013 I just read a Forbes article about Glass, talking about the split between those who are “sure that it is the future of technology, and others who think society will push back against the technology.” I don’t see this as … Tech events you don’t want to missBy Jenn WebbApril 29, 2013 Each Monday, we round up upcoming event highlights from the programming and space. Have an event to share? Send us a note. IBM Impact Developer Unconference Date: April 28—May 2 Location: Las Vegas, NV Why you shouldn’t miss it: Tim … Go native, go big, and go deepBy Zigurd MednieksApril 29, 2013 Apps have to get bigger and more ambitious. A key question for the developer community is how do you create big, integrated, multi-functional, configurable apps for the mobile enterprise? Curiously, Facebook is providing some answers by not using HTML5 and … Upward Mobility: Should there be only one?By James TurnerApril 29, 2013 As long as most people can remember, the smartphone space has been a contested one. Before the iPhone became temporarily ubiquitous, RIM and Palm were fighting it out to own the market, and today you have a plethora of platforms … Tachyon: An open source, distributed, fault-tolerant, in-memory file systemBy Ben LoricaApril 28, 2013 In earlier posts I’ve written about how Spark and Shark run much faster than Hadoop and Hive by1 caching data sets in-memory. But suppose one wants to share datasets across jobs/frameworks, while retaining speed gains garnered by being in-memory? An … 10 Questions to Ask Yourself About IT EducationBy Kerry BeckApril 27, 2013 When you decide to enter the IT field or to fine-tune your skills so you’ll excel at the IT job you already have, there are some specific questions to ask yourself. Answering them will help you choose the right educational … Continue reading Strata Week: Revolutionizing human resource management with work-force scienceBy Jenn WebbApril 26, 2013 Big data replaces gut instinct in HR management In a post at the New York Times, Steve Lohr took a look this week at a new data discipline: work-force science. The field pairs big data with human resources to help … Publishing News: Our brains on screensBy Jenn WebbApril 26, 2013 Digital vs paper: ink on paper may still have the advantage In a recent edition of Scientific American, Ferris Jabr took a look at how technology is affecting the way we read and the differences between reading on screens and … Glowing PlantsBy Mike LoukidesApril 26, 2013 I just invested in BioCurious’ Glowing Plants project on Kickstarter. I don’t watch Kickstarter closely, but this is about as fast as I’ve ever seen a project get funded. It went live on Wednesday; in the afternoon, I was backer … 51 to 100 of 11229 Prev Next |
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