MIT Media Lab site lets anyone visualize government data

New MIT Media Lab Tool Lets Anyone Visualize Unwieldy Government Data
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Innovation By Design

DataViva, a project developed in part by Media Lab professor César Hidalgo, aims to make a wide swath of government economic data usable with a series of visualization apps.

In the four years since the U.S. gov­ern­ment…

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Neuromarketing with Affectiva

Life With Mind-Reading Machines
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Smile: Your computer is watching.Affectiva, a nearly 2-year-old startup that grew out of MIT’s Media Lab, is teaching machines to understand what you feel.Affectiva has developed a way for computers to recognize human emotions based on facial cues…

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MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining

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MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining

This new center, part of the MIT Human Dynamics group, studies the ways we can use millions of sensors in portable devices already in common use to actually measure human behavior in real time. So, the end of psychology, the beginning of digital anthropology.

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MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining

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MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining.

Ethnography or Just Good Requirements Gathering – Exploring the Depths of Product Management

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Ethnography or Just Good Requirements Gathering – Exploring the Depths of Product Management.

MIT Media lab and other folks argue that the process of requirements gathering is just idiotic right now: take a word document and write all you can think of down there and then creating something out of that.