Maybe it’s just me, but there doesn’t seem to be much interesting blog fodder floating around lately. I don’t have the best memory, but I can’t recall a period this devoid of fun stuff for debate. Sure, there’s some news out there, but I’m just not finding it all that interesting. Prove me wrong if… Read More
Tag: data visualization
Ask Google?
Remember when Ask Jeeves launched? The premise was simple. Instead of munging your search into keywords and hoping for the right result set, all you had to do was ask Jeeves a real question. If you remember that, you’ll also remember that it didn’t work very well. Google just announced they have indexed public data… Read More
Freely Available Utilities
The title comes from a phrase that stood out for me in this post from RWW. That post highlights some really sweet data pr0n (TwitterThoughts and World Twitter Map) built by Yvo Schaap that uses the Twitter API for data, Yahoo Pipes for parsing and the Google Visualization API for producing the eye candy. All… Read More
Data Visualization Shows Patterns IRL
This post from O’Reilly Radar fascinates me. It’s about network operations data pr0n. If you know someone who works in network operations, you’re probably familiar with the usage and traffic graphs, the alerting and monitoring and the abrupt nature of the job. One minute you’re having a conversation, then the phone goes off, the laptop… Read More