Privacy concerns raised as the White House approves a mandate requiring data recorders, or so-called ‘black boxes’ in all new motor vehicles
Science proves that your mom really does call more often now that she’s older – also, why your tastes in ‘best friends’ change over time. Fun with data mining!
The happiest “corner” is actually just inside the western edge of Central Park, where the intersection of 7th and 77th would be (this is just north of the lake and east of the Hayden Planetarium)*. This corner elicits tweets with a relatively high abundance of the positive words “loves” and “sky”, and proportionally less negative words like “not”, “fear” and “no”. Many of the happiest locations actually fall within Central Park!
The map at right, in a series by Eric Fischer, presents geo-location from Flickr hosted photographs, showing differences where locals gravitate to take photos compared to…
Do you want to know the best part about putting all your personal information online? Aggregating everybody’s personal lives in the name of trending and…
I love sites like Last.FM and Twitter not only for what they do for me as an individual user, but also because I’m a data…
UK’s Daily Mail has posted an article showing the use of long-exposure photography to track flight patterns of fireflies. Check it out here
From the always interesting FlowingData blog, following their recent visualizations of sorting methodologies, comes a visual/audio representation of the same concept. Bizarre sounding stuff for…
Taken from DataVisualization.ch The center of the graphic is the site Mark and his colleagues investigated. The circular strokes are the times that businesses are…
After months of waiting after being teased with the possibility of an iPhone based NetFlix solution after the demos at this years WWDC, the company today made…