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Beyond C.S.I.: The Rise of Computational Forensics

6 January 2011
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How can you determine if two fingerprints are merely similar or are an exact match? Is forensics as practiced currently, skill and art — or science?
I was surprised to learn from Sargur Srihari that forensics is not as scientific in its methods as one might think from watching the various TV shows. Neither are the [...]

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Hierarchy of Digital Distractions

3 January 2011
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How do you manage all of the distractions from the data and information thrown at you from social media, email, the Web, chat and [insert name of app here]? Well? Not-so-well? Do you focus on one task at a time, or do you multi-task?
David McCandless of Information is Beautiful created this Hierarchy of Digital Distractions [...]

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2010 — the Year Mobile Connected the World

27 December 2010
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I’ve only had a smart phone for 10 months, and yet I cannot imagine how I lived without it. Therefore, for your viewing pleasure, I have posted this animation from themobilefuture on the mobile phone in the year 2010. The animation is by http://www.istrategylabs.com.
The authors cite the following statistics (sources not listed):

Massive increase in apps [...]

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The Data Behind Online Retailing

20 December 2010
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How do you brand yourself online? If you run a business, do you provide your customers with an online mechanism by which they can provide comments about your products and services publicly? If so, do you believe online feedback has a positive or negative effect on your company? How much shopping vs. online research do [...]

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What is Old is New Again: the Antikythera Mechanism Lego Version

16 December 2010
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A long, long time ago (100 BCE) in a civilization far, far away (Ancient Greece), someone built a mechanism that could “predict celestial events and eclipses with unprecedented accuracy” (Engadget). The machine — or, at least one of them — was lost in a shipwreck and lay on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea until [...]

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What Happens When You Don’t Label Your Axes?

13 December 2010

Have you ever thought that details don’t matter when it comes to data analysis and presentation?
Think again.

Image Source: xkcd
Would you break up with someone over (non-work related) sloppy data presentation?
[Via FlowingData.]

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Our Lives with Data using Data

9 December 2010
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Can you imagine life without Internet access (email, FTP, etc.)? What about Web access (i.e., anything via a browser)? If you have a smartphone, can you imagine not having one again?
GOOD Magazine decided to take a look at our life with data by creating the somewhat cheesy video below.
The video creators write: “from Google [...]

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The Web is Dead, Long Live the Internet…and the Web?

7 December 2010
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Is the Web dead? What about net neutrality?
Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff’s August 2010 piece in Wired Magazine called, “The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet” caused a bit of controversy. The authors argued that the Web is losing supremacy, and stated that our online world will be cordoned off into closed [...]

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The Digital Beyond: Introduction and Problems

3 December 2010
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Why should you care about what happens to your digital life after you die? Two days ago, I posted on John Romano and Evan Carroll’s work the past two years to bring attention to our digital “estate”.
In case you don’t want to read their book, Your Digital Afterlife, I thought I’d post some [...]

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The Digital Beyond: What Happens to Your Digital Life After You Die?

1 December 2010
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Have you ever thought about what happens to your digital life after you die? That’s not a question most of us have considered.
In the past, our photos, mail, and other possessions went to family or friends to sort through. But what happens to your online life when you die? Your email accounts, online photos, [...]

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