State of Data #101

#1Read_this_Week – #QuantifiedSelf Body Weight Simulator – Use Data-driven models to take charge of Health (hit “Start Simulator”)

 

#analysis – ‘Wake me up when the data is over’. Why you should use images instead of Raw Data – it is much less cognitive overload!

 #architecture – Big Data Architecture at LinkedIn                                                        

 

#big_data – “R” tutorials from Universities around the world

 

#Data_Science – Very short history of Data Science 

#DBMS – Skeuomorphs, Databases & Mobile Performance

#idea – Big Data for the Rest of Us – “The wine industry has been ruled by small data for the longest time”. How a startup changed the game.

#learning – Plethora of Selected Data Visualization tools that you can even use in your web/mobile apps directly!

#visualization – #ContrastNCompare – This tiny sphere is ALL the World’s Water

#etc

• Birthday Heatmap – September 16 is the most popular birthday!
• Surprising Math between Airport and City Size (HT: Jim Showalter)
• Wisconsin Voters Banished to NULL Island
  
• Distributive Law tiling on Franklin Avenue NYC Subway