On Educational Data Mining - 0 views
Bit.ly Sees The Private Gap Between What You Click and What You Share - 0 views
Educator's Voice: Data is the Foundation for Progress | Pearson Academic Executives - 0 views
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which provide us with endless sources of information on student and faculty behaviors. This data can then be mined for clues on in-course retention, program persistence, quality of student learning, and admission demographics correlated to student success.
My prediction for 2012 and beyond: gamification of the entire social web - 0 views
If San Francisco Crime were Elevation | Doug McCune - 0 views
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Really nice. Be great to see the two combined – heatmaps and topography or atleast some kind of colour banding added to the topography. That would open up all kinds of possibilities – you could slice horizontally along the bands and create layers of different ranges. In fact mixing colour and topography would also give you a way of showing two sets of data concurrently – topography for prostitution and some kind of colour banding for wealth for example.
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Makes the numbers come alive. G
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Brilliant work! Can you cross this data with the physical typography? I’ve always been curious if safer neighborhoods are uphill.
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The New Gold Mine: Your Personal Information & Tracking Data Online - WSJ.com - 0 views
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the tracking of consumers has grown both far more pervasive and far more intrusive than is realized by all but a handful of people in the vanguard of the industry. • The study found that the nation's 50 top websites on average installed 64 pieces of tracking technology onto the computers of visitors, usually with no warning. A dozen sites each installed more than a hundred. The nonprofit Wikipedia installed none.
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the Journal found new tools that scan in real time what people are doing on a Web page, then instantly assess location, income, shopping interests and even medical conditions. Some tools surreptitiously re-spawn themselves even after users try to delete them. • These profiles of individuals, constantly refreshed, are bought and sold on stock-market-like exchanges that have sprung up in the past 18 months.
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Advertisers once primarily bought ads on specific Web pages—a car ad on a car site. Now, advertisers are paying a premium to follow people around the Internet, wherever they go, with highly specific marketing messages.
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Amazon Kindle: Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big R... - 0 views
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An example of how the use of annotation of an online book could be used to support differentiated learning and promote in-class discussion, by looking at and discussing what was highlighted by members within and outside the group (class) number of highlights and ranking of highlights for a particular book.