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Mother Jones web traffic up 400+ percent, partly thanks to explainers » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

But Mother Jones also attributes the traffic explosion to a new kind of news content: its series of explainers detailing and unpacking the complexities of the situations in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, and Wisconsin. We wrote about MoJo’s Egypt explainer in January, pointing out the feature’s particular ability to accommodate disparate levels of reader background knowledge; that format, Adam Weinstein, a MoJo copy editor and blogger, told me, has become the standard one for the mag’s explainers. “It was a great resource for the reader, but it also helped us to focus our coverage,” Weinstein notes. “When something momentous happens, it can be hard for a small staff to focus their energies, I think. And this was an ideal way to do that.”

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march 2011 by vielmetti

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AnalyzeThe.US — Home

AnalyzeThe.US allows anyone to use Palantir to explore vast amounts of data only recently released into the public domain, including key datasets from www.data.gov. Information about key individuals, organizations, and activities exists in many places, and conducting meaningful analysis first requires the ability to integrate data seamlessly and completely. AnalyzeThe.US brings critical knowledge together on a single stage, while providing rich analytical applications that enable anyone to develop an intuitive picture of the complex flow of resources, money, and influence that affect how our government functions. Ultimately, by allowing citizens to analyze our democracy, AnalyzeThe.US democratizes analysis.

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february 2011 by vielmetti

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Optimization Online - Finding good nearly balanced cuts in power law graphs

Abstract: In power law graphs, cut quality varies inversely with cut balance. Using some million node social graphs as a test bed, we empirically investigate this property and its implications for graph partitioning. We use six algorithms, including Metis and MQI (state of the art methods for finding bisections and quotient cuts) and four relaxation/rounding methods. We find that an SDP relaxation avoids the Spectral method's tendency to break off tiny pieces of the graph. We also find that a flow-based rounding method works better than hyperplane rounding.

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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Google Gears Down for Tougher Times - WSJ.com

Google hired a new vice president of financial planning and analysis, Francois Delepine, who sought to standardize and more tightly manage the budget process. Finance teams started allocating more new hires to groups that generated the most revenue per head, say people familiar with the matter. To better predict revenue, the company implemented quotas for ad-sales representatives and tied the pay of more employees to performance, these people said. Different departments were required to budget the same amount for the same item, whether it was a server computer or a business-class ticket to Europe.

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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Joe Cothrel's Tumblr - Sounds like you have a community up and running...

Sounds like you have a community up and running and want to get others in the company more engaged. Three things I’d recommend:

* Harvest some customer opinions from the community and pass them around the organization — most people really want to hear what customers are saying.
* Communities are often one of the largest drivers of traffic to the company website — do some analysis on your site’s web traffic to show people how much traffic your community drives.
* Publish a weekly report that…

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november 2008 by vielmetti

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Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey - Waxy.org

single value decomposition, neatly applied with greasemonkey to colorizing political biases. (want more!)

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october 2008 by vielmetti

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Official Google Research Blog: All Our N-gram are Belong to You

Here at Google Research we have been using word n-gram models for a variety of R&D projects, such as statistical machine translation, speech recognition, spelling correction, entity detection, information extraction, and others. While such models have usually been estimated from training corpora containing at most a few billion words, we have been harnessing the vast power of Google's datacenters and distributed processing infrastructure to process larger and larger training corpora. We found that there's no data like more data, and scaled up the size of our data by one order of magnitude, and then another, and then one more - resulting in a training corpus of one trillion words from public Web pages.

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august 2008 by vielmetti

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S.F. FIRST CITY TO BAN PLASTIC SHOPPING BAGS / Supermarkets and chain pharmacies will have to use recyclable or compostable sacks

The ordinance, sponsored by Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, is the first such law in any city in the United States and has been drawing global scrutiny this week

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july 2008 by vielmetti

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SUPER CRUNCHERS

In this lively and groundbreaking new book, economist Ian Ayres shows how today's best and brightest organizations are analyzing massive databases at lightening speed to provide greater insights into human behavior

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july 2008 by vielmetti

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Economics of POW Camp

Although a P.O.W. camp provides a living example of a simple economy which might be used as an alternative to the Robinson Crusoe economy beloved by the textbooks, and its simplicity renders the demonstration of certain economic hypotheses both amusing an

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july 2008 by vielmetti

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ORA "short cuts": Google Analytics

$10 PDF, 90 pg, detailed config instructions

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june 2008 by vielmetti

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Conversation Quotient

What’s a friend worth, if they don’t click on your ad?

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march 2008 by vielmetti

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Scholz - Web 2.0 from an East German point of view

If the TV news reports on East German television seemed outlandish to tourists, I wonder what the precarity of the labor dynamic of Web 2.0 and its hyperlocal news would look like to a visitor from a country that is not afflicted by capitalism. They would

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march 2008 by vielmetti

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Social Compact - Market Analysis

The Neighborhood Market DrillDown is a pioneering market analysis model built on innovative sources of dependable, business-oriented data that reveal the hidden strengths of traditionally undervalued communities.

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november 2007 by vielmetti

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Searching For The Best Engine | Newsweek International Edition | Newsweek.com

"The Google results just had too much stuff I wasn't looking for," she says. "I wanted to zoom in on the best snorkeling beaches." And within seconds, Quintura delivers.

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october 2007 by vielmetti

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Kitchen Chick: Cafe Habana — off to a good start!

The next day I talked a co-worker into going for lunch. We ran into another friend (Hi, Ed!) on the street, and the three of us gave the lunch menu a go.

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october 2007 by vielmetti

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Preventing Chronic Disease: October 2007: 07_0091

some remarkable maps here showing unusual pockets of poverty and affluence and positing a "continental poverty divide"

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october 2007 by vielmetti

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Web Analytics Demystified » Blog Archive » EXCLUSIVE Microsoft Gatineau presentation and screen shots!

Ian Thomas from Microsoft was in Brussels, Belgium today showing off some screen shots of the upcoming Microsoft Gatineau product. The following are exclusive screen shots of the product, sans commentary per my agreement with the ever-so-nice Mr. Thomas.

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october 2007 by vielmetti

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Who’s Afraid of Online Advertising? - Publishing 2.0

No, billions of dollars still remain in traditional media because the advertising industry has to go through its own transition page views are a terrible currency for media buying — this buying model, a holdover from Web 1.0, mirrors the familiar tradit

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september 2007 by vielmetti

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Analyst Trims Online Ad Estimate For Mortgage Crisis

1. Online ads will be less affected than other media / 2. Paid search will be less affected than display ads / 3. International will be less affected than U.S.

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september 2007 by vielmetti

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James Governor’s Monkchips » If Markets Are Conversations Then Twitter Is Money

I don’t want to put a dollar figure on Twitter, based on users or something. That is not my point about the value of the service. Rather I just want to emphasize that Twitter is where the action is.

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august 2007 by vielmetti

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Libraries and Library Use

The growth of public libraries has been a vitally important aspect of the development of the information economy. At least in the U.S., public libraries have achieved near universal service and mediate between wide-area communication and local interests.

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august 2007 by vielmetti

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Bloug: Lou: EIA adieu

I've found that challenge with internal search analytics—which, BTW, could be the enterprise information architect's best friend—and I plan on teaching a search analytics seminar during the first part of 2008 (which should time nicely with the book's

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august 2007 by vielmetti

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Critical Parts of the Structure - New York Times

single points of failure on 35w bridge; photo and diagram essay

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august 2007 by vielmetti

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Network Weaving: Leading Indicators

Increase in Size of Network , Increase in internal network connectivity , Increase in connections to valuable third parties , Increase in projects formed with all of the above

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august 2007 by vielmetti

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Network Weaving

valdis has a blog

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july 2007 by vielmetti

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Search Engine Referrer statistics :: oyoy.eu search engine tools

search log analysis - interprets a lot of the unusual search parameters from google

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july 2007 by vielmetti

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Anjo Anjewierden / blog

The source code is the ultimate documentation

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june 2007 by vielmetti

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tOKo | Home

tOKo is an open source tool for text analysis and browsing a corpus of documents. It implements a wide variety of text analysis and browsing functions in an interactive user interface.

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june 2007 by vielmetti

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Google Search Cloud with Perl

more visualization and analysis tools of google search logs from apache. more more more - trying to reconstruct 103bees-style pageyness

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june 2007 by vielmetti

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Ask E.T.: London Underground maps (+ worldwide subway maps)

excellent long "ask tufte" discussion of transit maps worldwide, including many links and much to admire.

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april 2007 by vielmetti

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Robot Wisdom auxiliary: Web3.0: Ego abhors a vacuum

the challenge of meditation
is not to think

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march 2007 by vielmetti

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Empirical Analysis of an Evolving Social Network -- Kossinets and Watts 311 (5757): 88 -- Science

Social networks evolve over time, driven by the shared activities and affiliations of their members, by similarity of individuals' attributes, and by the closure of short network cycles

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march 2007 by vielmetti

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Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik

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