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David Bloom

Data in a human context - 0 views

  • Data in a human context March 6, 2012 to Data Art  •  Comments (3)  •  Share on Twitter Jer Thorp, a data artist in residence at The New York Times, shows off some of his work (like this and this) and speaks about the connection between the real world and the mechanical bits we know as data. Worth your 17 minutes.
  • a data artist in residence at The New York Times, shows off some of his work (like this and this) and speaks about the connection between the real world and the mechanical bits we know as data.
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    Gets to the human context at ~13:30 mins. Great illustration of how to make meaning from the seemingly meaningless, or at least from data that we don't usually connect to our daily experience.
Ruth Cuadra

Big data is worth nothing without big science | Business Tech - CNET News - 0 views

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    Many organizations are rich in data but poor in insight. But what if museums could use their "data" to see not just what's happening now, but also to model what they could be doing to optimize outcomes for the future? Enter the CAMLF team.
David Bloom

The Promise and Peril of the 'Data-Driven Society' - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Up to now, the focus on the power and implications of Big Data technology has been involved social media, business decision-making and online privacy. Those are big subjects in their own right. So it’s not surprising that the notion of a data-driven society has not been much considered.
Lisa Eriksen

New 'time cloak' can hide almost half of the data in its path, but even recipients can'... - 0 views

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    You can cloak the data, but it disappears?
Emily Holm

The British Library Big Data Experiment - Digital scholarship blog - 0 views

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    "The British Library Big Data Experiment"
Ruth Cuadra

Data Cuisine: The Edible Future Of Infographics - 0 views

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    It was bound to happen: Data Cuisine isall about cooking up infographics that you can literally eat: a pizza that conveys the patterns of 100 years of Italian immigration, for example, or a salmon mousse that explores the environmental impacts of commercial fishing over the past decade.
David Bloom

5x5x5: Rick Smolan Of 'The Human Face Of Big Data' Talks About Transformative Tech - 0 views

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    Five guests from a variety of sectors will answer questions on how technology and innovation can be used for social good.
Lisa Eriksen

Insight-Driven Innovation | MIT Technology Review - 1 views

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    What is the role of data vs. instinct and experience in innovation? How will big data influence how we make decisions? 
Ruth Cuadra

IFTF: As Fitbits for Feelings Emerge, Whither Empathy? - 1 views

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    Could empathy in society be enhanced by technology? Could machines sense our emotions better than our friends and family can and broadcast that data to them?
Ruth Cuadra

The promise and peril of 'Big Data' - latimes.com - 1 views

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    Interesting take on thinking beyond privacy issues when considering regulations about recording information about Internet usage. "Regulators need to take care not to treat the analysis of anonymized information as if it were an ominous new form of surveillance."
Lisa Eriksen

CLOUDS Interactive Documentary on Digital Art - 0 views

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    Cool video on data art and crowd-scorce documentary
Lisa Eriksen

Video from a dystopian future: how location data can be abused - Boing Boing - 0 views

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    Wow, this is scary, but not incomprehensible....
Ruth Cuadra

Mining Twitter gold, at five bucks a pop - 1 views

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    A man purchases fake Twitter followers that generate some very real results.  Reflects on whether "big data" is necessarily reliable.
Elizabeth Merritt

Are we witnessing the dawn of post-theory science? | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The... - 0 views

  • we’ve realised that artificial intelligences (AIs), particularly a form of machine learning called neural networks, which learn from data without having to be fed explicit instructions, are themselves fallible.
  • The second is that humans turn out to be deeply uncomfortable with theory-free science.
  • there may still be plenty of theory of the traditional kind – that is, graspable by humans – that usefully explains much but has yet to be uncovered.
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  • The theories that make sense when you have huge amounts of data look quite different from those that make sense when you have small amounts
  • The bigger the dataset, the more inconsistencies the AI learns. The end result is not a theory in the traditional sense of a precise claim about how people make decisions, but a set of claims that is subject to certain constraints.
  • theory-free predictive engines embodied by Facebook or AlphaFold.
  • “Explainable AI”, which addresses how to bridge the interpretability gap, has become a hot topic. But that gap is only set to widen and we might instead be faced with a trade-off: how much predictability are we willing to give up for interpretability?
Elizabeth Merritt

Heatwaves Are Shutting Down Data Centers, Breaking the Internet - 1 views

  • Despite heat waves becoming a common occurrence globally, companies such as Twitter are grossly underprepared for the havoc that intense heat can wreak on the technology industry.
  • backup generators and external power equipment can also be affected by heat waves
Ruth Cuadra

The value of data - 0 views

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    61% of respondents globally are more likely to buy from a brand that allows them to touch and feel the products wherever they are: in a store or on the net. What this reflects is that technology is delivering - and will more so in the future - a more complete and engaging sensory experience through a combination of graphics, sound, and even scent.
Ruth Cuadra

Virtual fitting rooms changing the clothes shopping experience - latimes.com - 1 views

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    High-tech sizing machines scan customers and offer a list of recommended clothing, eliminating returns and providing manufacturers with real-world data
Ruth Cuadra

A 360TB disc that holds data for more than 1 million years? - 0 views

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    a glass storage medium that could potentially outlive humankind...an everlasting medium that consists of self-assembled nanostructures within fused quartz..wow!
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