Jawbone Tracked Hundreds Of Thousands Of Up Users To Find The Most Sleep-Deprived States BY REBECCA GREENFIELD, fastcompany.com Jawbone anonymized sleep data from Up wearers and discovered some interesting trends about how we as a country snooze. For one, they do it better in Colorado (blame the weed?). You’d think that people would have some … Continue reading Jawbone uses big data to identify sleep deprived states
Is Your Pee The Right Color? [Infographic] By Kelsey D. Atherton, popsci.com Several times a day, human bodies release a stream of data about internal health. Unfortunately, the data comes analog, and so isn’t immediately accessible as useful information. Now an infographic from the Cleveland Clinic off… http://flip.it/IfZGH Related articles Is Your Pee The Right … Continue reading Infographic shows the health meaning of the color of your pee
Software Scans Journal Papers, Finds 1 In 4 Have Suspicious Images By Francie Diep, popsci.com Italian biologist Enrico Bucci originally developed his startup’s software to make scientists’ lives easier. The software is a search engine that automatically pulls images from published scientific papers. Say you’re study… http://flip.it/kf1lf
Sentient code: An inside look at Stephen Wolfram’s utterly new, insanely ambitious computational paradigm John Koetsier, venturebeat.com Tickets on Sale Now In 2002 Stephen Wolfram released A New Kind of Science and immediately unleashed a firestorm of wonder, controversy, and criticism as the British-born scientist, programmer, and entrepreneur overturn… http://flip.it/kLzwP Related articles Sentient code: An … Continue reading Sentient code: Stephen Wolfram’s linguistic computing platform
White House To Universities: We Need More Data Scientists BY NEAL UNGERLEIDER, fastcompany.com New York University, University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Washington are launching a $37.8 million project to boost the numbers of American data scientists. It’s official: America needs more data scientists. This week, a… http://flip.it/i9VYj Related articles UC Berkeley BIDS Launch … Continue reading White House spends millions to train more data scientists
New algorithms can tell if you ride the bus, and how bad you drive Derrick Harris, gigaom.com Researchers from the University of Helsinki in Finland have developed algorithms they say are the best yet for determining how mobile phone users are getting around town — walking, driving, taking the subway or otherwise — by… http://flip.it/hxozG … Continue reading Big data can now tell how badly you drive, and if you ride
Let’s build a semantic web by creating a Wikipedia for relevancy Jim Benedetto, gigaom.com Everyone is always asking me how big our ontology is. How many nodes are in your ontology? How many edges do you have? Or the most common — how many terabytes of data do you have in your ontology? We live … Continue reading Building meta data, semantic web and a wiki for relevancy
The Simplest Way To Know What Everyone’s Doing At Work BY JANET CHOI, fastcompany.com In the modern—often remote—workplace, sharing work is essential to an efficient and collaborative team. Writing is the simple, powerful tool that can foster that culture of sharing. Here’s why. We share so much on our digital streams and fee… http://flip.it/YIFRR Related … Continue reading Why skilled writers are critical to the knowledge economy
Can Facebook Tell When Your Relationship Is Doomed? | Popular Science popsci.com A Facebook Employee’s Network The circle in the middle represents the Facebook user. In the lower left, one circle serves as a bridge between two more sparse clusters. That’s the user’s spouse. Backstrom and Kleinberg Give up now… http://flip.it/fgooX Related articles Kickstarter Alum … Continue reading Facebook predicts when your relationship will fail
Livescribe 3 sends handwritten notes straight to your iPhone or iPad by Rick Broida, cnet.com This pen is definitely mightier than the stylus, as it gives you real-world note-taking coupled with mobile device world syncing. The Livescribe 3 is a wireless ink pen that automatically syncs your handwritten notes with your iPhone or… http://flip.it/A0lDq Related … Continue reading Live scribe 3 is best tool for field based research note capture
Startup Runnable fancies itself as “the YouTube of code” Barb Darrow, gigaom.com For folks who are searching the web for specific video clips, YouTube has become an invaluable resource not just for viewing your favorite stupid human tricks (or whatever) but for finding them in the first place. Now, Yash Kumar, a… http://flip.it/fbcyy
Stanford researchers to open-source model they say has nailed sentiment analysis Derrick Harris, gigaom.com Stanford Ph.D. student Richard Socher appreciates the work Google and others are doing to build neural networks that can understand human language. He just thinks his work is more useful — and he’s going to share his code with anyone wh… … Continue reading Stanford researchers open source sentiment analysis project
New tool lets you visualize just about anything in 5 minutes (maybe less) Derrick Harris, gigaom.com There’s a new web tool called Raw that makes it really easy to do some advanced visualizations on data in just a few minutes. (Hat tip to Nathan Yau of FlowingData for pointing it out.) The way it works … Continue reading Raw: advanced data visualization via cut and paste
Like The Evolution Of Apple’s iPod And iPhone, Nest Is Building One Product At A Time Aaron Tilley, forbes.com Today Nest officially unveiled the follow up to its popular learning thermostat with a smoke and carbon monoxide detector called the “Nest Protect.” Getting a look at it in person, co-founder and VP of engineering Matt … Continue reading Nest builds social, data driven CO detector
Numerate Trains Its Drug Design Platform On Huntington’s Disease Bernadette Tansey, xconomy.com Bernadette TanseyThe path toward a breakthrough drug often starts with a new insight about the molecular cause of an illness, but only a few of these discoveries lead to new treatments. Steven Finkbeiner at the Gladstone Institutes in San… http://flip.it/Ivquf Related articles Drug … Continue reading Numerate applies big data to drug design
TellSpec identifies food ingredients and calories using science, magic Zach Honig, engadget.com Some of us can’t eat gluten, while others need to stay away from certain fats. Mealtime can be incredibly stressful for people with dietary restrictions — especially when dining out — since manufacturers aren’t always required to… http://flip.it/j7t0R
Expect Labs’ anticipatory computing platform gets backing from Liberty Global, IDG — Tech News and Analysis. Related articles Expect Labs Anticipates a Day when the Computer Is Always Listening (xconomy.com)
Calico: How Google’s stab at the fountain of youth could transform health care Christina Farr, venturebeat.com Google is back in the health business with a mysterious new initiative to combat death itself. Google’s top executives didn’t say much about the biotech venture, called Calico, when they announced it on Sept. 18, except to say that … Continue reading Calico: Google’s first leap into health enhancement
Google Glass competitor ships 50K units, gets Intel investment, and hints at Apple connection John Koetsier, venturebeat.com Google Glass competitor Recon Jet, which bills itself as the Google Glass for athletes and professionals, has secured an investment from Intel Capital. In perhaps bigger news, the company announced that is has already shipped 50,000… http://flip.it/x80lA Related … Continue reading ReconJet creates Google glass competitor with Apple connections
Meet Academia.edu, a startup that wants to publish every science PDF online Christina Farr, venturebeat.com Just a few years ago, an entrepreneur with a goal to publish every scientific research paper on the Internet would have seemed ambitious, maybe even a little crazy. However, with the rise of online education and leading… http://flip.it/t8DU1 Related articles … Continue reading Academia.edu wants to publish every science article online
Does Your Boss Spy on You? ehow.com by Joanna Sloame(photo: Polka Dot RF/Polka Dot/Getty Images)The Answer’s Almost Always “Yes” — Here’s What You Should KnowEveryone knows that it’s a bad idea to complain about your boss on your company email, but most people have no idea t… http://flip.it/yHgIj
The future of biometric data tracking isn’t about devices, it’s about experiences Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.com Everywhere you look these days, there seems to be yet another sensor-enabled device or mobile app that wants to monitor everything from your heart rate and posture to your brain waves and breathing patterns. Dr. Leslie Saxon is the … Continue reading The future of biometrics is personalization and experience
5 Phrases You Should Never Use In An Email BY DRAKE BAER, fastcompany.com If you want to sound like an intelligent person rather than a cliché robot, that is. It’s way easier to rely on clichés and claptrap in your writing than to expend the energy on an original thought—one reason why the 70 emails … Continue reading Phrases to avoid in email
Meet Your Future Memory, The Internet BY SARAH KESSLER, fastcompany.com Wearable technology could help provide a near-perfect memory of your life. But that might not be a good thing. “Mom, what was your first date like with dad?” Mom: “Let me show you.” That’s how Lee Hoffman, the cofounder of an upcoming app… http://flip.it/UQgj2 Related … Continue reading The Internet is your new memory
Apple’s iPhone 5s, the A7 Chip, and That 64-Bit Question John Paczkowski, allthingsd.com When Apple unveiled the iPhone 5s on Tuesday, the company touted as one of its tentpole features the 64-bit desktop-class processing power of its new custom-made A7 chip. “The A7 is up to twice as fast as the previous-generation system at… http://flip.it/XmXFA … Continue reading Is Apple 5s 64 bit chip any better for the typical anthropologist?
Sequoia’s Sir Michael Moritz: The ‘data factory’ is the next Industrial Revolution Jolie O’Dell, venturebeat.com Early Bird Tickets on Sale SAN FRANCISCO — Computation power, applications, device and services costs, and storage are experiencing a dramatic upheaval not unlike the Industrial Revolution of centuries past. All that adds … http://flip.it/T6dGj Related articles Sequoia's Sir Michael … Continue reading The data factory is the next industrial revolution
How and why LinkedIn is becoming an engineering powerhouse Derrick Harris, gigaom.com Most LinkedIn users know “People You May Know” as one of that site’s flagship features — an onmipresent reminder of other LinkedIn users with whom you probably want to connect. Keeping it up to date and accurate requires some heady data… http://flip.it/9OFnb
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