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Billshrink: Christmas By the Numbers

18 December 2010
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How much has consumer spending during the holiday season changed since the Great Recession began? How does the date of Christmas relate to a Roman pagan holiday? Did you know that a real Christmas tree costs less than a fake one?
Billshrink examines some of the data behind our start-of-winter frenzy with the infographic Christmas [...]

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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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Oxford Launches Research Data Management Website

16 November 2010
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The following announcement was posted to the Research Data Management listserv on 14 November 2010 via S. Hodson. I thought it might be on interest to some of you.

The University of Oxford has recently launched a new Research Data Management Website: www.admin.ox.ac.uk/rdm
The development of this resource was ‘a close collaboration between Research Services, Computing [...]

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The Social Media Revolution in Numbers

8 November 2010
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Is social media a fad? Or the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Do you like what social media says about your brand? More importantly — Are You Ready?
Socialnomics runs the numbers in this entertaining animation about the social media “revolution”. For example, how many years did it take radio, television, the Internet, the iPOD, [...]

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War Data: Nuclear Explosions 1945-1998

29 October 2010
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How would you visualize over 2000 nuclear explosions since 1945?
Artist Isao Hashimoto created a video time-lapse that shows the 2053 nuclear tests and explosions between 1945-1998. North Korea’s two nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009 are not included in the time lapse. If you’d like to view an interactive map of nuclear testing that [...]

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War Data: the Hidden Cost ($$$) of War

27 October 2010
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Can you estimate the true cost of war? What variables do you use? Is the cost of war only the salaries of the troops and the equipment they use? Should the cost estimates include lifetime medical care for injured troops? What about rebuilding the nation with which you are at war (assuming you win)? Do [...]

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Twitter Mood Predicts the Stock Market

22 October 2010
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The zeitgeist on Twitter predicts stock market behavior by several days, according to research by Johan Bollen, Huina Mao, and Xiao-Jun Zeng. They examined whether or not “measurements of collective mood states derived from large-scale Twitter feeds are correlated to the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIJA) over time”.
The short answer is, [...]

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The Internet of Things and a System of Systems

21 October 2010
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We are drowning in a sea of data. There are more things on the Internet than there are people; currently about 1 billion people use the Internet.
We are learning to take data, create information, gain knowledge, and achieve wisdom. We are able to do this by using The Internet of Things to create a [...]

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Journalism in the Age of Data

18 October 2010
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How can journalists adapt to the data deluge? One way is to use tools and tricks “from computer science, researchers, and artists” (and, I hope, Information Science).
Geoff McGhee posted this video from Stanford. He writes:

Journalists are coping with the rising information flood by borrowing data visualization techniques from computer scientists, researchers and artists. Some [...]

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