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BlogsTags > goThe City of Chicago wants you to fork its data on GitHubBy Alex HowardMarch 19, 2013 GitHub has been gaining new prominence as the use of open source software in government grows. Earlier this month, I included a few thoughts from Chicago’s chief information officer, Brett Goldstein, about the city’s use of GitHub, in a piece … Four short links: 11 October 2012
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 11, 2012 ABalytics — dead simple A/B testing with Google Analytics. (via Dan Mazzini) Fastest Rubik Cube Solver is Made of Lego — it takes less than six seconds to solve the cube. Watch the video, it’s … wow. Also cool is … Why we need GoBy Rachel RoumeliotisSeptember 13, 2012 The Go programming language was created by Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, and Robert Griesemer. Pike (@rob_pike) recently told me that Go was born while they were waiting a long while for some code to compile — too long. C++ and … Four short links: 3 August 2012
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 3, 2012 Urban Camouflage Workshop — Most of the day was spent crafting urban camouflage intended to hide the wearer from the Kinect computer vision system. By the end of the workshop we understood how to dress to avoid detection for the … Four short links: 5 July 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 5, 2012 Neocover -- very clever idea: magnetic light-switch frames, from which you can suspend keys and other very-losable pocket-fillers. Design of Checkout Forms (Luke Wroblewski) -- extremely detailed, data-filled, useful guide to state of the art (and effect of) e-commerce checkout forms. In tests comparing forms with real-time feedback to those without, usability testing firm, Etre and I measured a:... Four short links: 4 May 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMay 4, 2012 Common Statistical Fallacies (Flowing Data) -- once you know to look for them, you see them everywhere. Or is that confirmation bias? Project Hijack -- Hijacking power and bandwidth from the mobile phone's audio interface. Creating a cubic-inch peripheral sensor ecosystem for the mobile phone. Peak Plastic -- Deb Chachra points out that if we’re running out of oil,... Developer Week in Review: The mysterious Google I/O machine 
By James TurnerMarch 22, 2012 While we wait to sign up for two of the major conferences of the year, Google has released a brainteaser, Java suffers another security breach, and a new language prepares for takeoff. Developer Year in Review: 2011 EditionBy James TurnerDecember 22, 2011 It's time for our annual look back at the year that was, when mobile ruled the world, HTML5 PWNED Flash, Drupal and Hadoop were the hot buzzwords for your resume, and a new batch of languages tried to become stars. Strata Week: Cloudera founder has a new data product November 3, 2011 Cloudera's founder launches Odiago, a new data startup. Elsewhere, Hortonworks reveals its suite of Hadoop products and services, and Knewton and Pearson bring big data to education content. Strata Week: Cloudera founder has a new data productBy Audrey WattersNovember 3, 2011 Cloudera's founder launches Odiago, a new data startup. Elsewhere, Hortonworks reveals its suite of Hadoop products and services, and Knewton and Pearson bring big data to education content. Top Stories: August 15-19, 2011 
By Mac SlocumAugust 19, 2011 This week on O'Reilly: We learned how smart companies apply the "meat-to-math ratio," Chicago's commitment to open data and open government was explored, and we looked at how data science is shaping social science. Opening government, the Chicago way 
By Alex HowardAugust 17, 2011 Sustainability and analytics are guiding Chicago's open data and app contest efforts. The city's approach offers important insights to governments at all levels. Opening government, the Chicago wayBy Alex HowardAugust 17, 2011 Sustainability and analytics are guiding Chicago's open data and app contest efforts. The city's approach offers important insights to governments at all levels. Less Code Is Better
By Paul BarryMay 10, 2011 I'm a big fan of the "less code is better" principle, in that I firmly believe the number of bugs in my code is directly related to the number of lines of code I write. Vale Java? Scala Vala palava - and Go too
By Rick JelliffeAugust 28, 2010 Dave Megginson (who drove the development of the SAX API that will be familiar to many XML developers who use Java) recently wrote Java is dead. Java stood out as a programming language (though not as a platform) in that... App Inventor and the culture warsBy Mike LoukidesJuly 15, 2010 Google's new App Inventor gets to the heart of the cultural difference between Apple and Google. If you haven't seen it yet, App Inventor is an experimental new SDK for the Android platform. What's different about App Inventor is that there's practically no coding per se; it's an entirely visual language. Its heritage goes back to Logo, but more directly,... Four short links: 5 March 2010
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 5, 2010 Rapportive -- a simple social CRM built into Gmail. They replace the ads in Gmail with photos, bio, and info from social media sites. (via ReadWrite Web) Best Practices in Web Development with Django and Python -- great set of recommendations. (via Jon Udell's article on checklists) Think Like a Statistician Without The Math (Flowing Data) -- Finally, and... Four short links: 19 February 2010
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 19, 2010 How to Seasonally Adjust Data -- Most statisticians, economists and government agencies that report data use a method called the X12 procedure to adjust data for seasonal patterns. The X12 procedure and its predecessor X11, which is still widely used, were developed by the U.S. Census Bureau. When applied to a data series, the X12 process first estimates effects... Review of Guobin Yang's "Power of the Internet in China"
By Andy OramSeptember 30, 2009 My review of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online, a combination of research and sociological analysis, Four short links: 8 July 2009
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 8, 2009 Stop Whining About Facebook's Redesign (Slate) -- How can I be so sure that you'll learn to like the redesign? Because you did the last two times Facebook did it. The conclusion is that sites don't say why they're redesigning, and that causes the resistance. C# and CLI under the Community Promise (Miguel de Icaza) -- Microsoft have announced... Four short links: 24 June 2009
By Nat TorkingtonJune 24, 2009 The Digital Open -- The Digital Open is an online technology community and competition for youth around the world, age 17 and under. Building a community of young open source hackers. Four Crowdsoucing Lessons from the Guardian's Spectacular Expenses Scandal Experiment -- Your workers are unpaid, so make it fun. How to lure them? By making it feel like... Four short links: 20 May 2009
By Nat TorkingtonMay 20, 2009 Distributed Proofreaders Celebrates 15000th Title Posted To Project Gutenberg -- a great use of our collective intelligence and cognitive surplus. If I say one more Clay Shirkyism, someone's gonna call BINGO. (via timoreilly on Twitter) Datacenter is the New Mainframe (Greg Linden) -- wrapup of a Google paper that looks at datacenters in the terms of mainframes: time-sharing, scheduling,... Four short links: 22 Apr 2009
By Nat TorkingtonApril 21, 2009 Government, Bayes, SMS, and distributed keystores: Government Projects the Agile Way -- Can It Be Done? (NZ Government) -- notes and audio from a workshop at the New Zealand State Services Commission looking to merge agile and government. The pullquotes are mostly generic about agile, but the important thing is that there are agile projects within government and their numbers... Bookworm and O'Reilly Labs
By Liza DalyFebruary 10, 2009 I'm extremely pleased to announce that the Bookworm project is now part of O'Reilly Labs. Learn How to Obtain iPhone Forensic Data: Chicago, May 26 & 27By O'Reilly MediaFebruary 3, 2009 The need for knowledge about the enormous amount of user data on iPhones is a rapidly emerging area of forensic study. O'Reilly's iPhone Forensics Developer Workshop will supply you with this sought-after and valuable information. Join Jonathan Zdziarski, the original iPhone hacker, for a two day workshop in Chicago, May 26 and 27. Four short links: 10 Jan 2009
By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 9, 2009 Here are four fun links to set the tone for your weekend: high risk money, productive failure, consumer-grade BitTorrent, and architecture criticism for the rest of us. How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing -- perhaps "hack" is a little excessive, but it's a readable short account of how Porsche made a lot of money playing "millionaire's... 1 to 26 of 26 Stay Connected
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