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BlogsTags > mappingFour short links: 15 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 15, 2013 Know Your HTTP Posters (GitHub) — A0-posters about the HTTP protocol. Crowdserfing — when a large corp uses crowd-sourced volunteering for its own financial gain, without giving back. It offends my sense of reciprocity as well, but nobody is coerced … Four short links: 10 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 10, 2013 HyperLapse — this won the Internet for April. Everyone else can go home. Check out this unbelievable video and source is available. Housing Simulator — NZ’s largest city is consulting on its growth plan, and includes a simulator so you … Four short links: 8 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 8, 2013 mozpay — a JavaScript API inspired by google.payments.inapp.buy() but modified for things like multiple payment providers and carrier billing. When a web app invokes navigator.mozPay() in Firefox OS, the device shows a secure window with a concise UI. After authenticating, … Four short links: 5 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 5, 2013 Millimetre-Accuracy 3D Imaging From 1km Away (The Register) — With further development, Heriot-Watt University Research Fellow Aongus McCarthy says, the system could end up both portable and with a range of up to 10 Km. See the paper for the … Four short links: 23 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 23, 2012 Trap Island — island on most maps doesn’t exist. Why I Work on Non-Partisan Tech (MySociety) — excellent essay. Obama won using big technology, but imagine if that effort, money, and technique were used to make things that were useful … Four short links: 4 October 2012
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 4, 2012 As We May Think (Vannevar Bush) — incredibly prescient piece he wrote for The Atlantic in 1945. Transparency and Topic Models (YouTube) — a talk from DataGotham 2012, by Hanna Wallach. She uses latent Dirichlet allocation topic models to mine … Four short links: 26 September 2012
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 26, 2012 Wearable LIDAR Sensors for Mapping (BBC) — made at MIT from commodity hardware, The system is still a prototype, but when tested in closed hallways without any Global Positioning System (GPS) signal, it was able to precisely map the environment … Four short links: 18 September 2012
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 18, 2012 The Rapture of the Nerds (Charlie Stoss, Cory Doctorow) — available for download and purchase under a CC-A-NC-ND license. Amazon Maps API — if there is an API layer of general use to developers, Amazon will build it. They want … Four short links: 29 August 2012
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 28, 2012 NeoVictorian Computing (Mark Bernstein) — read this! I think we all woke up one day to find ourselves living in the software factory. The floor is hard, from time to time it gets very cold at night, and they say … Four short links: 8 August 2012
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 7, 2012 Reconstructing Visual Experiences (PDF) — early visual areas represent the information in movies. To demonstrate the power of our approach, we also constructed a Bayesian decoder by combining estimated encoding models with a sampled natural movie prior. The decoder provides … Four short links: 2 August 2012
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 2, 2012 Patton Oswalt’s Letters to Both Sides — You guys need to stop thinking like gatekeepers. You need to do it for the sake of your own survival. Because all of us comedians after watching Louis CK revolutionize sitcoms and comedy … Four short links: 20 June 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJune 20, 2012 Researcher Chats To Hacker Who Created The Virus He's Researching -- Chicken: I didn’t know you can see my screen. Hacker: I would like to see your face, but what a pity you don’t have a camera. Economist on QR Codes -- Three-quarters of American online retailers surveyed by Forrester, a research firm, use them. In April nearly 20%... Four short links: 19 June 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJune 19, 2012 Mobile Maps (Luke Wroblewski) -- In the US, Google gets about 31 million users a month on its Maps app on iOS. On average those users spend more than 75 minutes apiece in the app each month. The Importance of Public Traffic Data (Anil Dash) -- Bill Gates and Paul Allen's first collaboration was a startup called Traf-O-Data, which... Visualization of the Week: Urban metabolismBy Audrey WattersMay 18, 2012 This week's visualization is an interactive web-mapping tool that lets you explore energy usage, material intensity and the overall "urban metabolism" of major U.S. cities. Visualization of the Week: Urban metabolism May 18, 2012 This week's visualization is an interactive web-mapping tool that lets you explore energy usage, material intensity and the overall "urban metabolism" of major U.S. cities. Four short links: 18 April 2012
By Nat TorkingtonApril 18, 2012 CartoDB (GitHub) -- open source geospatial database, API, map tiler, and UI. For feature comparison, see Comparing Open Source CartoDB to Fusion Tables (via Nelson Minar). Future Telescope Array Drives Exabyte Processing (Ars Technica) -- Astronomical data is massive, and requires intense computation to analyze. If it works as planned, Square Kilometer Array will produce over one exabyte (260... Four short links: 22 March 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 22, 2012 Stamen Watercolour Maps -- I saw a preview of this a week or two ago and was in awe. It is truly the most beautiful thing I've seen a computer do. It's not just a clever hack, it's art. Genius. And they're CC-licensed. Screens Up Close -- gorgeous microscope pictures of screens, showing how great the iPad's retina display... Four short links: 9 March 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 9, 2012 Why The Symphony Needs A Progress Bar (Elaine Wherry) -- an excellent interaction designer tackles the real world. Biologic -- view your social network as though looking at cells through a microscope. Gorgeous and different. The Cost of Cracking -- analysis of used phone listings to see what improves and decreases price yields some really interesting results. Phones described... Profile of the Data Journalist: The VisualizerBy Alex HowardMarch 2, 2012 To learn more about the people who are redefining the practice computer-assisted reporting, in some cases, building the newsroom stack for the 21st century, Radar conducted a series of email interviews with data journalists during the 2012 NICAR Conference. Profile of the Data Journalist: The VisualizerBy Alex HowardMarch 2, 2012 To learn more about the people who are redefining the practice computer-assisted reporting, in some cases, building the newsroom stack for the 21st century, Radar conducted a series of email interviews with data journalists during the 2012 NICAR Conference. Profile of the Data Journalist: The Visualizer
By Alex HowardMarch 2, 2012 To learn more about the people who are redefining the practice computer-assisted reporting, in some cases, building the newsroom stack for the 21st century, Radar conducted a series of email interviews with data journalists during the 2012 NICAR Conference. Four short links: 16 February 2012
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 16, 2012 The Undue Weight of Truth (Chronicle of Higher Education) -- Wikipedia has become fossilized fiction because the mechanism of self-improvement is broken. Playfic -- Andy Baio's new site that lets you write text adventures in the browser. Great introduction to programming for language-loving kids and adults. Review of Alone Together (Chris McDowall) -- I loved this review, its sentiments,... Visualization of the Week: AntiMap January 6, 2012 The DIY mapping tool AntiMap lets users capture their movements via their mobile devices, then visualize and analyze their movements. Visualization of the Week: AntiMapBy Audrey WattersJanuary 6, 2012 The DIY mapping tool AntiMap lets users capture their movements via their mobile devices, then visualize and analyze their movements. Global Adaptation Index enables better data-driven decisionsBy Alex HowardSeptember 15, 2011 Speed, accessibility and open data have come together in the Global Adaptation Index, a new data browser that rates a given country's vulnerability to environmental shifts. Four short links: 1 September 2011
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 1, 2011 A Chart Engine -- Android charting engine. The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight -- we are driven to create and form groups and then believe others are wrong just because they are others. Urban Mapping API -- add rich geographic data to web and non-web applications. Tell Us A Story, Victoria -- a university science story-telling contest.... Four short links: 31 August 2011
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 31, 2011 OSMdroid -- The OpenStreetMapView is a (almost) full/free replacement for Android's MapView class. Also see this tutorial. (via Simon Gianoutsos) 10 Immutable Laws of Security (Microsoft) -- an oldie but a goodie. Law #1: If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your computer, it's not your computer anymore. What's in The Trough? (BERG London)... Four short links: 1 July 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 1, 2011 paper.js -- The Swiss Army Knife of Vector Graphics Scripting. MIT-licensed Javascript library that gives great demo. TileMill for Processing -- gorgeous custom maps in Processing. (via FlowingData) Research Assistant Wanted -- working with one of the authors of Mind Hacks on augmenting our existing senses with a form of "remote touch" generated by using artificial distance sensors, such... Four short links: 8 April 2011
By Nat TorkingtonApril 8, 2011 A Practical Guide to Varnish -- Varnish is the http accelerator used by the discerning devops. Ferrofluid Sculptures (New Scientist) -- hypnotic video of an iron-based fluid that is moulded by magnetic fields, which I include for no good reason than it is pretty pretty science. (via Courtney Johnston) Twisted Highscores List -- clever leaderboard for tickets, reviews, commits,... Four short links: 5 April 2011
By Nat TorkingtonApril 5, 2011 The Big Map Blog -- awesome old maps, for the afficionado. (via Sacha Judd) sshuttle -- poor man's VPN built over ssh. (via Hacker News) Remembering LineDrive -- I, too, am bummed that LineDrive never became standard. And Maneesh, one of its cocreators. Check out his publications list! Websockets Pacman -- multiplayer Pacman, where players take the role of... Four short links: 7 March 2011
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 7, 2011 DigitalKoot -- Playing games in Digitalkoot fixes mistakes in our index of old Finnish newspapers. This greatly increases the accuracy of text-based searches of the newspaper archives. (via Springwise and Imran Ali on Twitter) Some Things That Need To Be Said (Amanda Hocking) -- A.H. is selling a lot of copies of her ebooks, and she cautions against thinking... Four short links: 3 March 2011
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 3, 2011 Guangzhou City Map -- Chinese city maps: they use orthographic projection (think SimCity) and not satellite images. A nice compromise for usability, information content, and invisible censorship. (via Hacker News) Broken Windows, Broken Code, Broken Systems -- So, given that most of us live in the real world where some things are just left undone, where do we draw... Four short links: 8 December 2010
By Nat TorkingtonDecember 8, 2010 Send Us Your Thoughts (YouTube) -- from the excellent British comedians Mitchell and Webb comes this take on viewer comments in the news. (via Steve Buttry's News Foo writeup) Amazon proves that REST doesn’t matter for Cloud APIs -- with the death of WS-* and their prolix overbearing complexity, the difference between REST and basic XML RPC is almost... Four short links: 25 November 2010
By Nat TorkingtonNovember 25, 2010 A Day in the Life of Twitter (Chris McDowall) -- all geo-tagged tweets from 24h of the Twitter firehose, displayed. Interesting things can be seen, such as Jakarta glowing as brightly as San Francisco. (via Chris's sciblogs post) British Library Release 3M Open Bibliographic Records) (OKFN) -- This dataset consists of the entire British National Bibliography, describing new books... Four short links: 23 November 2010
By Nat TorkingtonNovember 23, 2010 Goodbye App Engine -- clear explanation of the reasons why Google AppEngine isn't the right thing to build your startup on. Don't read the comments unless you want to lose faith in humanity. (via Michael Koziarski on Twitter) Neato Robotics XV-11 Tear-down -- the start of hackable LIDAR, which would enable cheap and easy 3D mapping, via a Roomba-like... Strata Week: Life, by the numbers 
By Edd DumbillNovember 11, 2010 This issue of Strata Week follows the path of data through cities, streets and border conflicts. We conclude our journey with a little brain work, as a programming challenge is announced to automatically identify topics and trends in Twitter and Facebook updates. Welcome Laurel Ruma to Where 2.0 
By Brady ForrestOctober 21, 2010 Laurel Ruma and Brady Forest will co-chair Where 2.0 2011, running April 19-21, 2011 in Santa Clara, Calif. Strata Week: Grabbing a slice 
By Julie SteeleSeptember 23, 2010 In this edition of Strata Week: The 2,000,000,000,000,000th digit of pi is calculated with an assist from Hadoop and MapReduce; a new technique uses iPads to extrude light paintings across a long exposure shot; Historypin links historical photos to Google Street View shots; and this is the last week for Strata Conference proposal submissions. Four short links: 7 September 2010
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 7, 2010 GalaxyZoo for Climate Science? -- GalaxyZoo is the crowdsourced physics research. A group of climate scientists want the same, to help predict "weather events". See also the Guardian article. (via adw_tweets on Twitter) Crispian's Science Map -- gorgeous Underground-style map showing scientists and their contributions. (via arjenlentz on Twitter) Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier (Ted Dziuba) --... Four short links: 2 Sep 2010
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 2, 2010 Guardian Science Blogs -- the latest in a series of science blog aggregators. Nobody is too sure what benefits a blog umbrella like Discovery or Nature (or the Guardian) offers bloggers. Regardless of this, the content is fantastic. v2ex: A Community Running on AppEngine -- no hosting costs, massive scalability. Raising Money for Vanuatu Arts Center -- a Kickstarter... Four short links: 1 September 2010
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 1, 2010 R Library for Chernoff Faces -- faces represent the rows of a data matrix by faces. plot.faces plots faces into a scatterplot. Interesting emotional way to visualize data, which was used to good effect (though not with this library) by BERG in Schooloscope. (via the tutorial at Flowing Data) Piwik -- GPLed web analytics package. Pomegranate -- a data... Four short links: 17 August 2010
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 17, 2010 Demo of Stemming Algorithms -- type in text and see what it looks like when stemmed with different algorithms provided by NLTK. (via zelandiya on Twitter) Crowdmap -- hosted Ushahidi. (via dvansickle on Twitter) Opinions vs Data -- talks about the usability of a new gmail UI element, but notable for this quote from Jakob Nielsen: In my two... Waze: Using Groups and Gaming to Get GeoData
By Brady ForrestAugust 10, 2010 Waze, the company behind the free turn-by-turn navigation app of the same name, is upping its game with their latest release. It has long made referred to itself as a community mapping app, but there was no really way to be apart of a community within the app - until now. Today's release is going to add Groups (about)... Four short links: 22 July 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 22, 2010 Boomerang -- a piece of javascript that you add to your web pages, where it measures the performance of your website from your end user's point of view. It has the ability to send this data back to your server for further analysis. With boomerang, you find out exactly how fast your users think your site is. From Yahoo!.... Four short links: 16 July 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 16, 2010 GPL WordPress Theme Angst -- a podcaster brought together Matt Mullenweg (creator of WordPress), and Chris Pearson (creator of the Thesis theme). Chris doesn't believe WordPress's GPL should be inherited by themes. Matt does, and the SFLC and others agree. The conversation is interesting because (a) they and the podcaster do a great job of keeping it civil and... Four short links: 12 July 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 12, 2010 Shogun: A Large Scale Machine Learning Toolbox -- open source (GPL v3), C++ with interfaces to MatLab, R, Octave, and Python. Emphasis for this toolkit is on SVM and "large scale kernel methods". The Agnostic Cartographer (Washington Monthly) -- land and sea are easy to measure compared to the trouble you get into when you put names on them.... Four short links: 8 June 2010
By Nat TorkingtonJune 8, 2010 Neuroplasticity is a Dirty Word (MindHacks) -- quick roundup of some of the more important ways in which the brain changes. It's currently popular to solemnly declare that a particular experience must be taken seriously because it 'rewires the brain' despite the fact that everything we experience 'rewires the brain'. [...] Clearly this is rubbish and every time you... Four short links: 22 April 2010
By Nat TorkingtonApril 22, 2010 Whitehouse Released Open Source Code -- four modules for Drupal with features the White House needed, including integration with the Akamai CDN. Android on iPhone -- it's like constructing an apartment building out of lasagne: an astonishing feat of engineering, even if it's not ultimately useful for anything. (via waxy) A Practical Guide to Geostatistical Mapping -- covers R,... Four short links: 13 April 2010
By Nat TorkingtonApril 13, 2010 0to255 -- simple cute colour-generator. (via Hacker News) ProPublica Wins Pulitzer Prize (NYTimes) -- important landmark in the rise of online journalism. The award is a landmark for ProPublica, founded in 2007, and the other digital news outlets that have sprouted around the country. Over the last few years, the Pulitzer Prize board has relaxed the eligibility rules, allowing... Four short links: 24 February 2010
By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 24, 2010 Maker! Map the World's Data -- web-based tool to make elegant maps from public data. Flat World Knowledge, a commercial publisher of open textbooks (Jon Udell) -- notable if only for Publishers need to be device-agnostic in the broadest sense. The printed book is one of the devices we target.. datapkg -- a data packaging tool, so you can... 1 to 50 of 57 Next Stay Connected
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