State of Data #94

#1Read_this_Week – Nasa generates a ‘Van Gogh’ with the World’s Ocean Currents

 

#analysis – Evaluative words for Wine

“incredibly 93.3846
sensational 93.375
finest 93.2727
fantastic 92.8846
fantastically 92.8421
mignon 92.6154″

#architecture – Netflix Recommendation System – Part 1; from Netflix

 

#big_data – Comprehensive list of Publicly available Large Data Sets for Database Research

 

#Data_Science – How to work with Google n-gram data sets in R using MySQL

#DBMS – Twitter open sources its MySQL work at GitHub

#idea – On-the-road statistics that prevents accidents

#learning – Everything You Wanted to Know about Data Mining but were Afraid to Ask

#visualization – National Heat Map shows heat generated fromUK buildings
#etc

• Portrait of a Twitter user
• ..and of a LinkedIn user
• FT Graphic World with David McCandless
• QWERTY Effect: “because of the QWERTY keyboard’s asymmetrical shape (more letters on the left than the right), words dominated by right-side letters “acquire more positive valences” — that is to say, they become more likable. “