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.
Sep 22
Boing Boing explains how Google is making it easier to get your data off the Google system an on to your own or to a competitor.
Aug 19
San Francisco follows the federal government by allowing access to some of its data sets. DataSF.org is a clearinghouse of datasets available from the City & County of San Francisco. Here’s the Techcrunch article written by Mayor Gavin Newsom with all the details.
May 21
Today marks the official launch of Data.Gov, a website designed to share government information (economics, healthcare, environment, etc.) with citizens.
Here’s the official announcement from the White House Blog.
May 02
Cloudera founder, Jeff Hammerbacher, has a new data book available – Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions
May 02
If you aren’t familiar with Kiva.org, they run the world’s first person-to-person micro lending website allowing one person to “loan” a few dollars to entrepreneurs on the other side of the world who really needs it.
A new site, Kivadata.org, that says it is not affiliated with Kiva makes a lot of the data from Kiva available in a series of charts. Check out how many loans are given out by region, or what the average amount of the loans are, as well as tons more stats.
Apr 29
If you’ve ever wanted an easy way to track and measure aspects of your own personal life, Daytum might be just the thing for you. A few of their suggested uses are:
- creating a personal dashboard
- keeping tabulations for an event
- tracking sports scores
- as a corporate tool
Apr 29
Google has brought its search and visualization power to some public data. Check out the Google Blog for more info. For example, if you search for “unemployment rate San Francisco” the first search result will be for this chart. The first data sets available are from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau’s Population Division.
Apr 15
Here’s an article about how data visualization is helping reporters find stories buried deep within the data.
