Four short links: 1 November 2010
The Most Popular Phone in the World (Gizmodo) — I have a mate who does prototyping R&D type stuff at a telco and this is his phone. “Why’d you carry a crap phone like that?” “Because this is the...
View ArticleStrata Gems: Explore and visualize graphs with Gephi
We’re publishing a new Strata Gem each day all the way through to December 24. Yesterday’s Gem: Five data blogs you should read. If you need to explore your data as a graph, then Gephi is a great place...
View ArticleStrata Gems: Make beautiful graphs of your Twitter network
We’re publishing a new Strata Gem each day all the way through to December 24. Yesterday’s Gem: Explore and visualize graphs with Gephi. Where better to start analyzing social networks than with your...
View ArticleFour short links: 24 March 2010
Digital Subscription Prices — the NY Times in context. Aie. Trinity — Microsoft Research graph database. (via Hacker News) Data Science Toolkit — prepackaged EC2 image of most useful data tools. (via...
View ArticleFour short links: 22 June 2011
DOM Snitch — an experimental Chrome extension that enables developers and testers to identify insecure practices commonly found in client-side code. See also the introductory post. (via Hacker News)...
View ArticleFour short links: 1 July 2011
paper.js — The Swiss Army Knife of Vector Graphics Scripting. MIT-licensed Javascript library that gives great demo. TileMill for Processing — gorgeous custom maps in Processing. (via FlowingData)...
View ArticleFour short links: 8 August 2011
Bulbflow — a Python framework for graph databases: it’s like an ORM for graphs. (via Joshua Schachter) Nomograms — the lost art of graphical computing. (via John D Cook) Web Intents — adding...
View ArticleFour short links: 10 August 2011
Gamification is Bullshit (Ian Bogost) — [G]amification is marketing bullshit, invented by consultants as a means to capture the wild, coveted beast that is videogames and to domesticate it for use in...
View ArticleFour short links: 23 November 2012
Trap Island — island on most maps doesn’t exist. Why I Work on Non-Partisan Tech (MySociety) — excellent essay. Obama won using big technology, but imagine if that effort, money, and technique were...
View ArticleFour short links: 29 March 2013
Titan 0.3 Out — graph database now has full-text, geo, and numeric-range index backends. Mozilla Security Community Do a Reddit AMA — if you wanted a list of sharp web security people to follow on...
View ArticleFour short links: 13 May 2013
Exploiting a Bug in Google Glass — unbelievably detailed and yet easy-to-follow explanation of how the bug works, how the author found it, and how you can exploit it too. The second guide was slightly...
View ArticleFour short links: 5 July 2013
Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin Transaction Graph (PDF) — We analyzed all these large transactions by following in detail the way these sums were accumulated and the way they were dispersed,...
View ArticleFour short links: 6 December 2013
Society of Mind — Marvin Minsky’s book now Creative-Commons licensed. Collaboration, Stars, and the Changing Organization of Science: Evidence from Evolutionary Biology — The concentration of research...
View ArticleFour short links: 17 December 2013
WebGraph — a framework for graph compression aimed at studying web graphs. It provides simple ways to manage very large graphs, exploiting modern compression techniques. (via Ben Lorica) Learn to...
View ArticleFour short links: 15 January 2014
Hackers Gain ‘Full Control’ of Critical SCADA Systems (IT News) — The vulnerabilities were discovered by Russian researchers who over the last year probed popular and high-end ICS and supervisory...
View ArticleSemi-automatic method for grading a million homework assignments
One of the hardest things about teaching a large class is grading exams and homework assignments. In my teaching days a “large class” was only in the few hundreds (still a challenge for the TAs and...
View ArticleBig Data solutions through the combination of tools
As a user who tends to mix-and-match many different tools, not having to deal with configuring and assembling a suite of tools is a big win. So I’m really liking the recent trend towards more...
View ArticleExtending GraphLab to tables
GraphLab’s SFrame, an interesting and somewhat under-the-radar tool was unveiled1 at Strata Santa Clara. It is a disk-based, flat table representation that extends GraphLab to tabular data. With the...
View ArticleNetwork Science dashboards
With Network Science well on its way to being an established academic discipline, we’re beginning to see tools that leverage it. Applications that draw heavily from this discipline make heavy use of...
View ArticleThere are many use cases for graph databases and analytics
The rise of sensors and connected devices will lead to applications that draw from network/graph data management and analytics. As the number of devices surpasses the number of people — Cisco estimates...
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