Twitter Engineering: Visualizing Hadoop with HDFS-DU
We are a heavy adopter of Apache Hadoop with a large set of data that resides in its clusters, so it’s important for us to understand how these resources are utilized. At our July Hack Week, we...
View ArticleInformatica Perspectives - The Architectural Scope of Data Governance
It’s important to note that I didn’t title this post “Implementing a Data Governance Architecture”. Data governance is not a technology space, tool – or architecture. As our data governance framework...
View ArticleApp.net gets annotations, allows for attaching all kinds of sweet metadata to...
Back in 2010, Twitter announced that it would be launching a feature called Annotations that would let developers add more information to a tweet without affecting the character count. ...See it on...
View ArticleHackathon will turn hard data into works of art
The Observer teams up with tech curator 3beards to stage an event where you can think up creative new ways of using numbers, writes Ian Tucker...See it on Scoop.it, via Management and analysis on the...
View ArticleGetty Images on the New World of Content Licensing ‹ PhotoShelter Blog
No matter what your personal opinion on Getty Images is, you can’t argue that they’ve evolved into one of the major powerhouses in the stock industry. But when co-founders Mark Getty and Jonathan Klein...
View ArticleDT > Digital Textbooks: Wikiweb > Visualizing Connections Between Articles
A Wikipedia reader for your iPhone and iPad that visualizes the connections between articles.See it on Scoop.it, via Management and analysis on the Information Society
View ArticleThis App Knows More About Your Facebook Account Than You Do
An app from Wolfram Alpha analyzes your Facebook profile and spits out revealing details about your account and friends.See it on Scoop.it, via Management and analysis on the Information Society
View ArticleHootSuite acquires Seesmic, Seesmic customers to be transitioned to HootSuite
HootSuite announced today that it has acquired social media tool maker Seesmic.See it on Scoop.it, via Management and analysis on the Information Society
View ArticleHow Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything
An exclusive look inside Ground Truth, the secretive program to build the world's best accurate maps.See it on Scoop.it, via Management and analysis on the Information Society
View ArticleGoogle Maps and OpenStreetMap Data Views – Find The 10 Differences
Google Maps had The Atlantic over for a chat about how they work up their ‘deep map’ from various sources. It’s interesting to read about how Google invests incredible amounts of ...See it on Scoop.it,...
View ArticleThe Divine Proportion and Web Design
Learn to identify and use the golden rectangle to create harmony in web design projects.See it on Scoop.it, via Management and analysis on the Information Society
View ArticleTypedia: A Shared Encyclopedia of Typefaces
A Shared Encyclopedia of TypefacesSee it on Scoop.it, via Management and analysis on the Information Society
View ArticleStoring SCA Metadata in the Oracle Metadata Services Repository
The advantages of using the Oracle Metadata Services Repository as a central storage for the metadata...See it on Scoop.it, via Management and analysis on the Information Society
View ArticleMendeley Institutional Edition Adds Altmetric Feature for Librarian Users
Mendeley is widely used in academe to help scholars organize, share, and discover new research. It combines desktop software and web-based bibliographic database management and storage with social...
View ArticleData Art vs. Visualization? The Distinction is Unproductive, says Artist Jer...
Where does data visualization begin and data art begin? Jer Thorp, resident Data Artist at the New York Times (a position he created for himself), believes the distinction is unproductive. Combining...
View ArticleTwitter's silently rolls out a user directory to boost search rankings |...
Twitter quietly launched a directory listing the majority of its users in an effort to boost its search engine presence.See it on Scoop.it, via Management and analysis on the Information Society
View ArticleLinkedIn Blog » Meet the New LinkedIn Profile: A Better Way to Connect and...
We’re excited to share that we’ve just launched the next generation LinkedIn Profile, making it easier for our 175 million members to tell their professional stories, be found for opportunities, and...
View ArticleFacebook Page Best Practices | David Lee King
Last Saturday, I gave a Facebook Page session at Podcamp Topeka 2012.See it on Scoop.it, via Management and analysis on the Information Society
View ArticleGoogle's new privacy policy : incomplete information and uncontrolled...
After several months of investigation led by the CNIL into Google's new Privacy Policy that came into force on March 1, the EU Data Protection authorities publish their common findings.See it on...
View ArticleSwing states are dead, but did Big Data pull the trigger? | VINT
A swing state: “A state in the US in which democratic and republican candidates both have a good chance of winning”. But what if predictions are so accurate that you get all 50 states right? That’s the...
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