GMTED2010 is state of the art

he urban youth frequenting the Internet cafés of Accra, Ghana, who are decidedly not members of their country’s elite, use the Internet largely as a way to orchestrate encounters across distance and amass foreign ties--activities once limited to the wealthy, university-educated classes. The Internet, accessed on second-hand computers (castoffs from the United States and Europe), has become for these youths a means of enacting a more cosmopolitan self. In Invisible Users, Jenna Burrell offers a richly observed account of how these Internet enthusiasts have adopted, and adapted to their own priorities, a technological system that was not designed with them in mind

matplotlib Value Added Modelling

recommended by previous article about why not to use scatterplots in dense information--use hexbin.

These maps are nice, I've seen the DMA maps in hard copy but do not have scans:

Topographic Maps. This collection of maps is primarily photographic negatives of maps (for printing positive images of maps), 1:50,000 original scale. The UK-DOS (United Kingdon, Directorate of Overseas Surveys) and US-DMA (Defense Mapping Agency) sheets are also on file as a single hard copy colored map from which copies could from many libraries, or from AMRS, Inc.

initiative to improve the quality of lower primary education with a particular focus on improved instruction in reading, mathematics and science for higher learning achievement. Moreover, TZ21 is focusing on establishing a school-based Education Management Information System (School-based EMIS) t

Use newspapers as local-flavor for giftwrapping. get local flavor, look local.

would like to see the DEC, etc type devices plotted too.

OB3 is a learning environment for medical education. It helps educators and students create, manage, collaborate and learn online.

Analysis of such large data sets often requires powerful distributed data stores like Hadoop and heavy data processing with techniques like MapReduce. This approach often leads to heavyweight high-latency analytical processes and poor applicability to realtime use cases.

Remote CSV and Highchart
This example pulls a local comma delimited dataset containing world crude oil production since 1980 to 2004 and graphs it as a line chart using Highcharts.

This example demonstrates: Remote Importing, Delimited Datasets.

10 inch tablets (like Samsung's Galaxy Tab) average 125 page views in the browser per tablet. (source)
9 inch tablets (like Apple's iPad) average 116 page views in the browser per tablet. (source)

Data collection solution used by Martin Able and JPAL.

Having reference points on various topics buffered in your head may one good tactic to catch bad logic in news today.

This is why South Korean advertisements are often broken...

excel based forms that funnel into ODK collect

Used formhub in Tanzania for soil surveying

Short freezes of guest OS

If you experience short freezes of guest OS, it might be due to Win’s heavy use of ACPI register that has a very large virtualization penalty. Fortunately, there is a simple workaround available: disable ACPI support in Windows.

Right click My Computer and select Properties.
Choose the Hardware tab and click the Device Manager button.
Select the entry under Computer with the right mouse button. If it already says Standard PC, then there’s no need to do anything.
Select Properties.
Click the Update Driver button.
Choose “No, not this time” and click Next.
Choose “Install from a list” and click Next.
Choose “Don’t search” and click Next.
Click Next.
Choose Standard PC and click Next.

CMS -> Android-based SMS gateway

@dennetmint hey I found some neat things by perusing this journo book

To find the remainder on dividing a number by 7, start at node 0, for each digit D of the number, move along D black arrows (for digit 0 do not move at all), and as you pass from one digit to the next, move along a single white arrow.
see also http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/3503/hard-code-golf-regex-for-divisibility-by-7

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using trees already in the ground to regrow forests in arid west africa, a case study discussing 20 years of policy and cultural progress toward more trees in Niger. FMNR

POSHO and lead into: taxation is representation

This article reminds me of rupert-thad conversations on the challenges behind Agro-market Information Systems based on your experiences working in Ethiopia. It reflects somewhat on the dynamics of transfer of power from traders to farmers as we had discussed. I liked the observation that it forked farmers into finally actually raising the quality of their goods to market.

For budgeting purposes, you should plan on allocating between $250 and $290 per device (including the discounted costs of hardware, books, shipping, cases, lights, training, and support) in direct costs.

MAY 25, 2012
Decoding Data - How will you use data to create change that improves the quality of life of poor or vulnerable communities in cities?
Irrigating Efficiency - How will you improve or scale agricultural water use efficiency?
Farming Now - How will your idea encourage and support young people to enter and stay in farming?

these guys had a great land use map pasture & say--corn % utilization vs maximum that I want to find

“you can just ask for permission” ... the most common answer will be “mumble

At the end of the call, I stated that I’d like to blog the call… it was quickly agreed that was fine. Alicia mentioned her only hesitation was that she might be overwhelmed by requests from others who also want text mining access. Reasonable.

Except that it isn’t. It’s perfectly reasonable for every single person who wants to text mine to want a conversation about access. Elsevier, because they demand control, have set themselves up as the bottleneck. This is really the key point, because the subscription business model implies an imperative to extract income from all possible uses of the content it sets up a need for control of access for differential uses. This means in turn that each different use, and especially each new use, has to be individually negotiated, usually by humans, apparently about six of them. This will fail because it cannot scale in the same way that the demand will.

Website directory with 1000 businesses that is verified by int'l consultants yearly. Tender publication.

CORRECT SOLUTION: Score = Lower bound of Wilson score confidence interval for a Bernoulli parameter

Recommendation for GIS team

AMIS-Cameroon started as a quest for solutions to every farmer’s plight – a plight that is inevitably linked to all of us who are dependent upon their precious products. Observations of farms and markets throughout Cameroon revealed that many of the difficulties that farmers, particularly rural farmers, face originate primarily from a lack of vital information.

The Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions (Spider) is a resource center for ICT for Development (ICT4D).
Crosscutting ICT issues
- low cost and high quality technology
- free and open source software (FOSS)
- mobile technology for development (M4D)

where there are contracts, they often disproportionately favour those with power. The principles of participation, transparency and accountability, which form the cornerstone of the notion of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC), are usually absent in such transactions.

people planet profit

How to rebuild a city? Lure the “creative class” with cosmopolitan amenities. Makes sense. Too bad it doesn’t work... more»

The deckle edge dates back to a time when you used to need a knife to read a book. Those rough edges simulate the look of pages that have been sliced open by the reader.

This doesn't mention if they're actually able to use this for HIV/Malaria yet but it reminds me of Aron's Tb-faithfulness test.

Information foraging
The implications are clear: the material that's the most important for the users' goals or your business goals should be above the fold. Users do look below the fold, but not nearly as much as they look above the fold.
People will look very far down a page if (a) the layout encourages scanning, and (b) the initially viewable information makes them believe that it will be worth their time to scroll.

Finally, while placing the most important stuff on top, don't forget to put a nice morsel at the very bottom.

All three cables are being laid for the same reasons: Redundancy and speed. As it stands, it takes roughly 230 milliseconds for a packet to go from London to Tokyo; the new cables will reduce this by 30% to 170ms. stockmarkets too.

instructions on how to record calls in Skype with Audacity in OSX and Windows w/o for-fee tools.

It looks a lot like a genuine Apple charger and cost a lot less. But looking inside, I found that important safety corners were cut, which could lead to a 340 volt surprise. In addition, the interference from a cheap charger like this can cause touchscreen malfunctions.

there are 2 wasteful copies in every typical traditional OS copy operation. Getting rid of them in this age of fast solid state drives eliminates a new bottleneck.

Millenials don't seem to go anywhere even when it makes perfect sense.

post on gis stackoverflow

iPhone Configuration Utility. In the profile, I turned off the following (and pretty much everything else I could turn off):

Turn off Safari
Turn off YouTube
Turn off installing apps
Turn off the iTunes store
Turn off iCloud syncing, backup and Photo Stream
I set the profile to never be removable, which means you have to restore the device to remove the profile

script to search exhaustively for your best public DNS server

Knight Foundation funded data vis and mapping platform structure github oriented.

catch bad software redhanded.

javascript widgets for bargraphical info viz of all manners

Ice is a track changes implementation, built in javascript, for anything that is contenteditable on the web. The following are demos of Ice in action