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Data Mining

Debtris (Visualization of Debt)

23 February 2011
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How does the cost of the Iraq War compare to US credit card debt? What about the worldwide costs of the financial crises from the late 2000s to the present? How do those costs compare to African nations’ debts?
Information is Beautiful provides those answers and more in his first animation, entitled “Debtris“. I have embedded [...]

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CBS News Examines the Internet and Our Right to Privacy

21 February 2011
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What if you are asked to resign your position because of a complaint about photos you posted to Facebook that you thought were private and for friends only — but weren’t? What if in the pictures you are perfectly sober, but simply posing with two glasses of alcohol, and reference a site that has a [...]

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Test Your Digital Footprint

18 February 2011
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You may be aware of your carbon footprint, but do you know the size of your digital footprint? Would you like to know how much digital exhaust you leave behind during your normal daily activities?
The Discovery Channel has created a tool called Your Digital Footprint that measures “how much information about your daily life [...]

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Americans’ Valentine’s Day Plans via Social Networking Sites

14 February 2011
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
Are you honest about your relationships status on social networking sites? Do you display the name of your significant other on your site? How have you spent this past Valentine’s weekend? How will you spend today? Did you buy or do you plan to buy a gift for your significant other?
These questions and [...]

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Linked Open Data: the Promises an the Pitfalls…Where Are We and Why Isn’t There Broader Adoption?

8 February 2011
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This post is for those of you who are interested in Linked Open Data.
The following is from an announcement sent out via email by Diane Goldenberg-Hart of CNI on 7 February 2011.

A new video from CNI’s 2010 fall membership meeting is now available from CNI’s video channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni). [...]

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Twitter Map of Profanity — Polite Plains & Profane Mountains

28 January 2011
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Have you ever wondered in what locations people swear more or less versus other geographic locations? I can’t say I have, either. Having said that, sometimes too much data can be a wonderful thing — if one has a sense of humor, that is.
Cartographer Daniel Huffman has used “1.5 millon geocoded tweets from last March [...]

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Your Stomach Really Does Have a Mind of Its Own

26 January 2011
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Have you ever dieted and thought that your stomach controls your brain, not vice versa? Have your ever thought that your stomach has a mind of its own? If so, you may not be far off.
Researchers at the Nestle Corporation have been examining how to create a food that will tell the brain that the [...]

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The Information Explosion and Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom

24 January 2011
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The information explosion. What does that mean to you? Does it mean multi-tasking, multiple Internet-enabled devices, cyber-friends, a vast database of knowledge at your fingertips…and a sense of being overwhelmed with too much information?
If you were an adult before the World Wide Web became common, are you more informed or less informed because of the [...]

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Starbuck’s Adds the 31 oz “Trenta” to the Menu

18 January 2011
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How big is a 31 oz cold coffee beverage? How can you display the new beverage size so that a layperson like me can understand exactly how oversized the new beverage is?
Starbucks recently announced that they will add a larger size to their menu of beverages — the “Trenta“. As I stated above, the new [...]

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MLK Holiday: Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech

17 January 2011
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How would you visually represent a landmark speech in US history?
I have posted a video of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech below, in order to mark the holiday that honors him. The speech was given on August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and [...]

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