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Wish I’d seen this « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
"...what exemplars like Dopplr and Fire Eagle demonstrate beautifully is [that]... the seams between systems are as important to the way a service is ultimately experienced as the more obvious interface between system and human user."
application  web  design  development  interaction  data  ownership  portability  distributed 
april 2008 by infovore
Random Etc. - Data Visualisation Blogs You Might Not Know About
Tom Carden links up a few more visualisation blogs he's following that you might not have heard of.
dataviz  data  visualisation  datavisualisation  blog  informatics  information 
april 2008 by infovore
Infochimps.org: Free Redistributable Data Sets of Every Kind
"The infochimps.org community is assembling and interconnecting the world's best repository for raw data -- a sort of giant free allmanac, with tables on everything you can put in a table."
data  free  information  tables  datasets  repository 
april 2008 by infovore
Portals - WSJ.com
"When you find new information, you get an opioid hit, and we are junkies for those. You might call us 'infovores.'" ... We are programmed for scarcity and can't dial back when something is abundant." So that explains it.
infovore  knowledge  learning  data  psychology  intelligence  informationoverload  via:blackbeltjones  addiction 
march 2008 by infovore
254 - Ludacris’ Rap Map of US Area Codes « Strange Maps
"I’m a female and a feminist. I dislike the usage of the word ‘ho’. However, as a geography major, I find this song hilarious, and had to map it." A more accurate-than-normal piece of hip-hop infographics.
ludacris  hoes  misogyny  map  mapping  infographics  data  hiphop  sociology 
march 2008 by infovore
Data Feeds at BookMooch
Wow. Bookmooch has some seriously comprehensive data available from it, if you fancing munging their entire dataset (security-sanitised, obviously).
bookmooch  data  api  xml  statistics 
february 2008 by infovore
thinking about spreadsheets while washing the dishes (tecznotes)
"The spreadsheet has an older, wiser cousin, and it is called database."
spreadsheet  database  data  music  itunes  lastfm  metaphor  mentalmodel 
february 2008 by infovore
(theinfo)
"This is a site for large data sets and the people who love them: the scrapers and crawlers who collect them, the academics and geeks who process them, the designers and artists who visualize them." Aaron Swartz strikes again. This looks great.
dataviz  infoviz  visualisation  scraping  data  accumulation  processing 
january 2008 by infovore
Fraser Speirs – If your proprietary RAW workflow dies
"Will they build RAW converters for prehistoric digital cameras?" That's not the only biggie Fraser asks in this thoughtful piece - most of our RAW workflows are awfully reliant on proprietary technology. What happens when it's all obsolete?
data  photography  raw  workflow  obsolescence 
december 2007 by infovore
Unit Command Climate Assessment and Survey System (UCCASS)
"The Unit Command Climate Assessment and Survey System (UCCASS) (pronounced yoo-kas) is a PHP based survey script that allows you to create online surveys." And it looks like a nice alternative to PHPESP...
php  survey  software  web  application  data  analysis  marketing 
october 2007 by infovore
We Can Fix That with Data
"metrics, data management, and usability for online games" - awesome blog discovery of the day. Just looks fab. Insta-subscribe!
blog  games  play  metrics  data  mmorpg  usability 
september 2007 by infovore
Personal Data Flows and APIs | Privacy Digest
"‘Facebook hasn’t told people they are now being exposed to third party applications,’ Roschke said. ‘They have made the general announcement, but there was no notice to me as to whether I wanted these settings."
facebook  privacy  data  api 
may 2007 by infovore
Refining Data Tables :: UXmatters
Luke Wroblewski examines and illustrates ways to architect tabular display of data. Some clear thinking, and good illustration.
data  tables  design  usability  navigation  web  development  interaction 
april 2007 by infovore
Web 2.0 Technologies: GeoKit: a plugin for location-based Rails apps
Geokit is a Rails plugin for building location-based apps. It provides geocoding, location finders, and distance calculation in one cohesive package.
ruby  rails  rubyonrails  maps  geo  geocoding  data  plugin 
february 2007 by infovore
Jon Kleinberg's Homepage
My research is concerned with algorithms that exploit the combinatorial structure of networks and information.
research  networks  social  data  web  networking 
september 2006 by infovore
Information Architecture is Information Structure :: Off the Top :: vanderwal.net
"I am an information architect because I care about the structure of information and building things from that structure"
IA  markup  data  structure 
june 2006 by infovore
perl.com: Data Munging with Sprog
Simple dating munging with a gtk frontend. Nifty.
data  perl  programming  regex 
october 2005 by infovore

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