Aug 30

Here’s a great collection of Postgres resources.

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Aug 26

This Techcrunch articles features two real-time data displays. One is from Facebook Places and the other is from Apple’s App Store. Fun visualizations.





Aug 26

Check out this Techcrunch article about a new charting tool for real-time database reporting, chart.io.

Aug 26

O’Reilley lists off which of the over 2,000 data sets on data.gov are the most popular after the site’s first year in operation.

Aug 14

I’m not sure exactly what to do with this, but it seems kind of interesting. A Harvard grad student decided to create a visualization of the world’s population and longitude. Check out the Alltop recap.

Jul 31

Google now offers the capability to not only access many public data sets, but to explore the data using their visualization tools. Cool stuff.

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Jul 31

SETI (Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence) is fairly well-known for their utilization of distributed computing. For decades, they have allowed the home computer user to donate time and computing resources to analyze radio signals hoping to identify signs of extra-terrestrials. This article from O’Reilly Radar details some of the changes SETI has made.

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Jul 31

Amazon has been recommending products based on past purchase and browse data for some time. More recently, Facebook has been suggesting users who you may want to add as friends. Now twitter is adding a suggestions for you feature based on the people you follow. A few more details from Techcrunch.

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Jul 29

Another reason to check in on your Facebook profile security settings… A security specialist at SkullSecurity.com has created a torrent containing the public data for 100+ million Facebook users and is widely distributing it. While there’s nothing wrong with this since all the info is public, it does cause one to thing about what can be done with all the information that many users are exposing. Check out the Techcrunch article.

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Jul 29

Techcrunch highlights that on-demand business intelligence provider, GoodData, has received an additional $6.5 million in funding from Fidelity Growth Partners Europe.

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