The Google Books Ngram Viewer shows the power of visualization: instead of offering a huge but abstract data set, Google created a simple visualization tool that shows the data and makes it easily queryable. Read more
Conrad Quilty-Harper has written an article for Telegraph.co.uk about how data is changing how we live. It's a list of 10 real-world examples in the fields of Shopping, Relationships, Business deliveries, Maps, Education, Politics, Society, War and Advertising. Read more
In 2010 Tim Berners-Lee returned to TED to follow up his great speech about open and linked data from 2009. At this years conference Sir Berners-Lee presented some of the results that sprouted from open data. Read more
The year 2009 comes to an end and a lot, really a lot of queries have been gone through the google search box. The kind folks at Google take a look back at the happenings throughout this year. They do this as anyone would expect them to: collecting data! Read more
Every time that you login into your local Unix-like machine or a remote hosting server through a FTP client to upload a file or use SSH to get your stuff done, you’re leaving behind a trail of evidence showing your online behaviour. This visualization tool unveils and visualizes this hidden data for you. Read more
Infochimps.org is an online repository for raw data that's been around for more than one year now. At DEMOfall 09 they made the announcement that they extended the website's functionality. Infochimps.org now let's users share and even sell their own datasets. Read more
Aaron Zinman, PhD student in the Social Media Group at MIT has recently published his installation for the Connections exhibit at the MIT Museum. The project entitled "Personas" gives you insights in how the Internet sees "You". Read more
Michael Bommarito from Computational Leagal Studies shows one way of how to use the web as a database. He has published a neat piece of Python code to collect data from the web and write in a single CSV file. Read more
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