Cube is an open-source system for visualizing time series data, built on MongoDB, Node and D3. If you send Cube timestamped events (with optional structured data), you can easily build realtime visualizations of aggregate metrics for internal dashboards. For example, you might use Cube to monitor traffic to your website, counting the number of requests in 5-minute intervals:

One of the appeals of a mobile Web solution over native mobile applications is the ability to reach a wider (across multiple platforms) audience. Here are some examples of companies doing just that.

Am heutigen Mittwoch trat der Innen- und Rechtsausschuss des Kieler Landtags zusammen, um unter anderem den ULD, repräsentiert durch Thilo Weichert, Sven Thomsen und Dr. Moritz Karg, und Facebook, repräsentiert durch Richard Allan (facebook policy director für Europa, den nahen Osten und Afrika) in Begleitung von Frau Kirschsieper von facebook Deutschland, anzuhören.

Beim gestrigen Gespräch hat Facebook detaillierte Informationen zur Funktionweise des Like Buttons sowie des Nutzer-Loggings beschrieben. Dabei wurde auf die Punkte “Like Button”, “Facebook Pages” und “Europäische Datenschutzrichtlinie” eingegangen.

In the 1930s, the average GPA at American colleges and universities was about 2.35, a number that corresponds with data compiled by W. Perry in 1943. By the 1950s, the average GPA was about 2.52. GPAs took off in the 1960s with grades at private schools rising faster than public schools, lulled in the 1970s, and began to rise again in the 1980s at a rate of about 0.10 to 0.15 increase in GPA per decade. The grade inflation that began in the 1980s has yet to end.

Credit card companies are sitting on a wealth of information about their clients — they have a running record of everything they buy. Due to strict rules entitling consumers to financial privacy, though, banks are limited in the secondary use of that data. However, they’ve happened upon a rather ingenious way to work around that restriction.

Ein Thema, das es alle paar Jahre wieder einmal schafft, für wenige Millisekunden Aufmerksamkeit zu erhaschen, ist die Performance von Anlageprofis, wie bei Investmentfonds. Hier suggerieren Hochglanzprospekte, teure Werbespots und Preisverleihungen der Investmentbranche, dass man nur den richtigen Berater, Fonds oder Verwalter finden braucht, um ausgesorgt zu haben. Eigentlich weiß jeder, dass dies eine Illusion ist.

Beautiful example of an interactive way to understand complex information, in this case peoples' migration.

Get data from websites in structured form (scraping).