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BlogsTags > researchFour short links: 16 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 16, 2013 Australian Filter Scope Creep — The Federal Government has confirmed its financial regulator has started requiring Australian Internet service providers to block websites suspected of providing fraudulent financial opportunities, in a move which appears to also open the door for … Four short links: 13 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 13, 2013 Exploiting a Bug in Google Glass — unbelievably detailed and yet easy-to-follow explanation of how the bug works, how the author found it, and how you can exploit it too. The second guide was slightly more technical, so when he … 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 … A Day at the 2013 Genomes, Environments and Traits ConferenceBy James TurnerApril 26, 2013 The GET (Genomes, Environments and Traits) conference is a confluence of parties interested in the advances being made in human genomes, the measurement of how the environment impacts individuals, and how the two come together to produce traits. Sponsored by … Four short links: 2 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 24, 2013 Metrico — puzzle game for Playstation centered around infographics (charts and graphs). (via Flowing Data) The Lease They Can Do (Business Week) — excellent Paul Ford piece on money, law, and music streaming services. So this is not about technology. … Four short links: 26 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 24, 2013 The Engagement Cliff — Gallup surveyed nearly 500,000 students in grades five through 12 from more than 1,700 public schools in 37 states in 2012 and found that by the time students get to high school only about 4 in … 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: 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 … 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 … 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 … Four short links: 15 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 15, 2013 Consumer Heterogeneity and Paid Search Effectiveness: A Large Scale Field Experiment (PDF) — We find that new and infrequent users are positively influenced by ads but that existing loyal users whose purchasing behavior is not influenced by paid search account … Four short links: 7 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 7, 2013 Pharmacovigilance — Signals from The Crowd (PDF) — in the NY Times’ words: Using automated software tools to examine queries by 6 million Internet users taken from Web search logs in 2010, the researchers looked for searches relating to an … Untangling algorithmic illusions from reality in big dataBy Alex HowardMarch 6, 2013 Microsoft principal researcher Kate Crawford (@katecrawford) gave a strong talk at last week’s Strata Conference in Santa Clara, Calif. about the limits of big data. She pointed out potential biases in data collection, questioned who may be excluded from it, … Four short links: 5 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 5, 2013 Eulerian Video Magnification — papers and the MatLab source code for that amazing effect of exaggerating small changes in file. (*This work is patent pending) CopyrightX — MOOC on current law of copyright and the ongoing debates concerning how that … Untangling algorithmic illusions from reality in big dataBy Alex HowardMarch 4, 2013 Microsoft principal researcher Kate Crawford (@katecrawford) gave a strong talk at last week’s Strata Conference in Santa Clara, Calif. about the limits of big data. She pointed out potential biases in data collection, questioned who may be excluded from it, … Four short links: 20 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 20, 2013 The Network of Global Control (PLoS One) — We find that transnational corporations form a giant bow-tie structure and that a large portion of control flows to a small tightly-knit core of financial institutions. [...] From an empirical point of … Four short links: 6 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 6, 2013 Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics: simple, easy and tempting (PDF) — scholarly paper on how to citespam your paper up Google Scholar’s results list. Fortunately calling your paper “AAAAAA In-vitro Qualia of …” isn’t one of the … Crowdfunding scienceBy Renee DiRestaFebruary 5, 2013 In our first science-as-a-service post, I highlighted some of the participants in the ecosystem. In this one, I want to share the changing face of funding. Throughout the 20th century, most scientific research funding has come from one of two … Investing in the open data economyBy Alex HowardFebruary 5, 2013 If you had 10 million pounds to spend on open data research, development and startups, what would you do with it? That’s precisely the opportunity that Gavin Starks (@AgentGav) has been given as the first CEO of the Open Data … Four short links: 31 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 31, 2013 Courier Prime — tweaked Courier “for screenplays” (!). (via BoingBoing) The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome and the Potential Downfall Of American Society (PDF) — education is dangerous to female extended family members. As can be seen in Table 1, when no … Science as a serviceBy Renee DiRestaJanuary 30, 2013 Software as a service (SaaS) is one of the great innovations of Web 2.0. SaaS enables flexibility and customized solutions. It reduces costs — the cost of entry, the cost of overhead, and as a result, the cost of experimentation. … Open data economy: Eight business models for open data and insight from Deloitte UKBy Alex HowardJanuary 28, 2013 When I asked whether the push to free up government data was resulting in economic activity and startup creation, I started to receive emails from people around the United States and Europe. I’ll be publishing more of what I learned … Making the web work for scienceBy Nat TorkingtonJanuary 25, 2013 The field of science is firmly on our radar as a vertical with huge interest in and opportunities for the things that are foundational to O’Reilly’s world view: openness, platforms and APIs, creating more value than you capture, the web … Four short links: 18 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 18, 2013 Bruce Sterling Interview — It changed my work profoundly when I realized I could talk to a global audience on the Internet, although I was legally limited from doing that by national publishing systems. The lack of any global book … Four short links: 11 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 11, 2013 How to Redesign Your App Without Pissing Everybody Off (Anil Dash) — the basic straightforward stuff that gets your users on-side. Anil’s making a career out of being an adult. Clockwork Raven (Twitter) — open source project to send data … Four short links: 8 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 8, 2013 13 Design Trends for 2013 — many of these coalesced what I’ve seen in websites recently, but I was particularly intrigued by the observation that search’s growing importance to apps is being reflected in larger searchboxes. How Twitter Gets In … Four short links: 31 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 31, 2012 Wireless Substitution (BoingBoing, CDC) — very nice graph showing the decline in landlines/growth in wireless. Maker’s Row — Our mission is to make the manufacturing process simple to understand and easy to access. From large corporations to first time designers, … Four short links: 20 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 20, 2012 When Transaction Costs Collapse — As OECD researchers reported recently, 99.5 per cent of reciprocal access agreements occur informally without written contracts. Paradoxically, as competition becomes more intense or ”perfect”, it becomes indistinguishable from perfect co-operation – a neat trick … Four short links: 29 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 29, 2012 Inside BJ Fogg’s Behavior Design Bootcamp — see also Day 2 and Day 3. Recollect — archive your social media existence. Very easy to use and I wish I’d been using it longer. (via Tom Cotes) Duplicating House Keys on … Four short links: 15 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 14, 2012 Cheap Thermocam — cheap thermal imaging camera, takes about a minute to capture an image. (via IEEE Spectrum) Observations on What’s Getting Downvoted (Ars Technica) — fascinating piece of social work, showing how the community polices (or reacts to) trolls. … Discovering genetic associations using large dataBy Andy OramOctober 9, 2012 David Heckerman from Microsoft Research presents a summary of his work in the session “Discovering Genetic Associations on Large Data.” This was part of the Strata Rx Online Conference: Personalized Medicine, a preview of O’Reilly’s conference Strata Rx, highlighting the … Four short links: 8 October 2012
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 8, 2012 Beware the Drones (Washington Times) — the temptation to send difficult to detect, unmanned aircraft into foreign airspace with perceived impunity means policymakers will naturally incline towards aggressive use of drones and hyperactive interventionism, leading us to a future that … Four short links: 19 September 2012
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 17, 2012 /r/Scholar — Reddit board for tracking down research articles of interest. sweet.js (GitHub) — macros for Javascript. (via Brendan Eich) The Rapture of the Nerds (Charlie Stoss, Cory Doctorow) — this is the HTML version of the book, which is … Four short links: 12 September 2012
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 12, 2012 Seriesly — time-series database written in go. Tablets and TV (Luke Wroblewski) — In August 2012, 77% of TV viewers used another device at the same time in a typical day. 81% used a smartphone and TV at the same … Four short links: 31 August 2012
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 30, 2012 typing.io — a typing tutor for code. Sheep to Warn Shepherds of Wolf Attack by SMS — around 10 sheep were each equipped with a heart monitor before being targeted by a pair of Wolfdogs—both of which were muzzled. (via … 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: 16 July 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 16, 2012 Britain To Provide Free Access to Scientific Publications (Guardian) — the Finch report is being implemented! British universities now pay around £200m a year in subscription fees to journal publishers, but under the new scheme, authors will pay “article processing … Four short links: 4 July 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 4, 2012 How Anonymous Works (Wired) -- Quinn Norton explains how the decentralized Anonymous operates, and how the transition to political activism happened. Required reading to understand post-state post-structure organisations, and to make sense of this chaotic unpredictable entity. Kanban For 1 -- very nice progress board for tasks, for the lifehackers who want to apply agile software tools to the... The Lean Startup Cycle - Learning
By Kevin ShockeyJuly 3, 2012 One trait nearly every successful startup shares is endless market research. While innovation accounting covers a broader spectrum, assumptions about your users or community are some of the most important and should be tested early and often.. Four short links: 4 June 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJune 4, 2012 How To Be An Explorer of the World (Amazon) -- I want to take this course on design anthropology but this book, the assigned text, looks like an excellent second best. StuxNet Was American-Made Cyberwarfare Tool (NY Times) -- not even the air gap worked for Iran, “It turns out there is always an idiot around who doesn’t think... Strata Week: MIT and Massachusetts bet on big data May 31, 2012 MIT announces a big data research center, Cisco predicts the future of the Internet (in zettabytes), and open data startup Junar announces seed funding. Strata Week: MIT and Massachusetts bet on big dataBy Audrey WattersMay 31, 2012 MIT announces a big data research center, Cisco predicts the future of the Internet (in zettabytes), and open data startup Junar announces seed funding. Four short links: 30 May 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMay 30, 2012 Wide Open Future of the Art Museum (TED) -- text of an interview with curator at the Walters Art Museum about CC-licensing content: reasons for it, value to society, value to the institution. What I say in a very abbreviated form in my talk is that people go to the Louvre because they’ve seen the Mona Lisa; the reason... Strata Week: Visualizing a better lifeBy Audrey WattersMay 24, 2012 In this week's data news, a visualization tool charts your "better life," researchers have concerns about access to data, and updates to Hadoop. Strata Week: Visualizing a better lifeMay 24, 2012 In this week's data news, a visualization tool charts your "better life," researchers have concerns about access to data, and updates to Hadoop. What do mHealth, eHealth and behavioral science mean for the future of healthcare?By Alex HowardMay 21, 2012 We're just at the beginning of discovering how to best develop and utilize mobile technology to improve the health of individuals and the public, says Dr. Audie Atienza. What do mHealth, eHealth and behavioral science mean for the future of healthcare?
By Alex HowardMay 21, 2012 We're just at the beginning of discovering how to best develop and utilize mobile technology to improve the health of individuals and the public, says Dr. Audie Atienza. Four short links: 10 May 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMay 10, 2012 Gravity in the Margins (Got Medieval) -- illuminating illuminated manuscripts with Mario. (via BoingBoing) Hours Days, Who's Counting? (Jon Udell) -- What prompted me to check? My friend Mike Caulfield, who’s been teaching and writing about quantitative literacy, says it’s because in this case I did have some touchstone facts parked in my head, including the number 10 million... Four short links: 8 May 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMay 8, 2012 Gmail Vault -- app to backup and restore the contents of your gmail account. (via Hacker News) Leaving Apps for HTML5 (Technology Review) -- We sold 353 subscriptions through the iPad. We never discovered how to avoid the necessity of designing both landscape and portrait versions of the magazine for the app. We wasted $124,000 on outsourced software development.... 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... 1 to 50 of 118 Next Stay Connected
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