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Obama wins the nerdiest election ever By Spencer Ackerman, wired.co.uk Politics Congratulations, Barack Obama: you have prevailed in the nerdiest election in the history of the American Republic. If 2008 was about hope and change, 2012 was about data and memes. The unemployment rate. The effective … http://flpbd.it/i8Wy9 Related articles Despite “Jedi” flap, Obama still…
The Rising Science Of Social Influence — How Predictable Is Your Online Behaviour? Ferenc Huszár, techcrunch.com Techcrunch recently ran a piece by Michael Wu of Lithium. The following is a response written by Ferenc Huszar, who, prior to joining Peer Index PeerIndex as lead data scientist, was was a PhD student at the Machine Learning…
An Electron Microscope Reveals The Hidden Horrors Of Processed Foods By Belinda Lanks, fastcodesign.com Photographer Caren Alpert wants you to take a good, hard look at what you eat. One of the most powerful tools in a scientist’s arsenal is the scanning electron microscope (SEM), which uses a beam of electrons to magnify a specimen…
by liseman, instructables.com This Instructable explains how to use a gas sensor with your Arduino. This lets your Arduino smell (and hence you program responses to) overall gas levels for a variety of nasties, including ethanol, methane, formaldehyde, and a bunch o… http://flpbd.it/EypGF How To Smell Pollutants Related articles Arduino ADK LED Lighting (instructables.com) Shrunk…
Big Data News of the Week: Sexy and Social Data Scientists Gil Press, forbes.com In a week when tech vendors traditionally go on a news hiatus, the people who actually do big data came to the fore. InformationWeek reported on the gathering of nearly three dozen data scientists from academia and… http://flpbd.it/qnGXj Related articles Big…
Cyber Corps program trains spies for the digital age By Ken Dilanian, Washington Bureau, latimes.com NATION At the University of Tulsa school, students learn to write computer viruses, hack digital networks and mine data from broken cellphones. Many graduates head to the CIA or NSA. TULSA, Okla. — Jim Thavisay is secretly stalking one of…
Major Utilities Adopt Opower’s New Energy Engagement Platform Beth Buczynski, earthtechling.com Until more national governments adopt aggressive strategies to speed clean energy development, conservation remains the simplest and most effective carbon reduction tactic. The question that remains is how? Utilities and… http://flpbd.it/WVHAu Related articles Opower Voted Best Potential Investment at Conference (blogs.wsj.com) A Little Guilt,…
CrashPlan offers Carbonite users a free year of cloud backup | Marketplace Blog – CNET Reviews. Related articles Fastest backup solution for your digital life (technorati.com) How to set up CrashPlan Cloud Backup headless on a Synology NAS – Backup Strategies (hanselman.com) Carbonite Ranked 51st Fastest Growing Company in North America on Deloitte’s 2012 Technology…
How I learned a language in 22 hours Joshua Foer, guardian.co.uk He’s never been good with languages, so can Joshua Foer really hope to learn Lingala in a day? “What do you know about where I come from?” That was one of the first questions I ever asked Bosco Mongousso, an Mbendjele pygmy who lives…
Obama’s data geeks add up to four more years John Naughton, guardian.co.uk Mastery of the numbers game meant the president’s team was able to exploit its database more effectively than Romney, reeling in £1bn in donations Some years ago I went to a lecture given by Professor David MacKay, who in addition to being a……
Turn Your Smartphone Camera into a Pocketable Photographic Memory Adam Dachis, lifehacker.com Several apps exist to help you remember the many things you’d otherwise forget, but perhaps none are quite as useful and efficient as your camera. Typing takes time. Snapping a photo only takes a moment, and there are so many ways you ……
The Wealth & Health of Nations tumblr.com An interactive graphic on “The Wealth and Health of Nations” by Mike Bostock, the graphics editor at the New York Times and creator of the D3 JavaScript Data Visualization Library. This is a recreation of the famous GapMinder… http://flpbd.it/66nDz Related articles Comparing the Perception of Wealth Inequality in…
Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama’s Re-election Matthew Zook, floatingsheep.org Note: for questions about the methodology/approach of this post, see the FAQ (added 16:20 EST 11/9/2012). Note: as of 11:00 EST 11/10/2012, we have disabled commenting on this post. During the day after the 2012… http://flpbd.it/nZi5W Related articles Judge who sent racist email…
This Week in God Steve Benen, msnbc.com First up from the God Machine this week is a look at the 2012 presidential election, and the differences along religious lines. The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life published a report this week based on exit polling data, and I put… http://flpbd.it/uLnnb
NYC Crime Rate Drops After Storm thedailybeast.com HURRICANE SANDY Hurricane Sandy may have devastated areas of New York City, but there was one silver lining in the otherwise massively destructive storm cloud: the city’s overall crime rate dropped 27 percent compared with the sam… http://flpbd.it/NBBoL Related articles A History of Disaster Capitalism (motherjones.com) How capitalism…
Superstorm Shines A Light On Power Grid Vulnerabilities Scott Neuman, npr.org The storm that has spawned so many worst-ever superlatives managed a few more when it comes to electricity, with record-breaking power outages across 18 states stretching from Michigan and Indiana to Maine and North Carolina, according… http://flpbd.it/hDP1l Related articles Preparing The Grid For The…
How Agencies Can Hack Culture for Brand Insights Rae Ann Fera, fastcocreate.com Picture this: you’re in a meeting in which your team is challenged to come up with ideas that tap into trends and pop culture. Everyone at the table nods in agreement. Culture! Yes. Important. Check. Two weeks later, only vague (if any)… http://flpbd.it/TWevT…
Need Branding That Transcends Cultures? Invent Your Own Language By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com A thoughtful identity gives a multinational disease research network a new way to communicate. Oxford University’s Clinical Research Unit is an 11-year-old network of groups that cooperate to track and prevent infectious diseases, fro… http://flpbd.it/XD4bv Related articles geordie shore cast are surprise…
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