"It is thus in traders' direct financial interest, they suggest, to install themselves at specific points on the Earth's surface—a kind of light-speed financial acupuncture—to take advantage both of the planet's geometry and of the networks along which trades are ordered and filled. They conclude that "the construction of relativistic statistical arbitrage trading nodes across the Earth’s surface" is thus economically justified, if not required." wild premise, wonder what the reality factor here is

"tools for data retrieval (Google + Twitter + Wikipedia API, web spider, HTML DOM parser), text analysis (rule-based shallow parser, WordNet interface, syntactical + semantical n-gram search algorithm, tf-idf + cosine similarity + LSA metrics) and data visualization (graph networks)" 

city blocks size ordered, via straup

patterns in data

wall street firms using sattelites for parking lot data (via kevin slavin) :
With a satellite picture, “you don't have to guess based on what a manager is saying from a store or the opinion of a research analyst,” said Tom Diamond, co-founder of Remote Sensing Metrics. “It's a real piece of data you can look at.”

via sarah

“swimming in sensors and drowning in data.”

"the geographical point nearest to all the inhabitants of that region, on average"; in South Asia, for the world

proposed brooklyn=>queens=>bronx subway line with accompanying speculative ridership data

insanely dense chart of all metabolic processes, with krebs cycle in the middle

"NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead. Superficially, it seems much like a "Who's Who" where a noted person's curriculum vitae is available (the usual information such as date of birth, a biography, and other essential facts.)" also featuring a map / browser tool (from heather)

via kathryn

large data sets lead to less models / theory

new lovid project

mildly annoying rocketboom piece on "data," using as input an intersection in Omaha, NE. She gets a lot of information wrong, but more importantly, she is totally fucking with my hood in a weird / not so great way

nasdaq graphs as sung by a choir