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“The online project “Zoom into Your Roof” [antwerpen.be] tries to help solve this question through a relatively simple visualization. During the winter of 2009, a small airplane with an infrared…
“The origin of writing and reading cannot be understood as a direct evolutionary adaptation. It is dependent on the plasticity of the brain, and on the fact that, even within the small span of a…
“Speaking from a biological scientist, not data scientist, perspective, you’ve lost 90% of people by step two. What’s modeling data? What’s a “first class” data element?
As things stand now,…
“Here’s the problem, though. Aside from my friends the open scientists (and not even all of them, to be honest), practically all the data-producing researchers I know are firmly stuck on Step 1….
”[…] employing an internal data griot makes a lot of sense: someone who can spend the time looking for both large trends and individual needs and uses that illuminate and portend. It’s a hard job,…
“Version control is what keeps programmers from going crazy. A designer that wants to contribute to a project will get a lot further if they learn the tools and use them.”
“Open data – people posting their data freely for all to re-analyse – is the big hip new zeitgeist, and a vitally important new idea. But I was surprised to find that the thing I’ve advocated for…
History log/version control in a note taking app.
“How the vowels in words are pronounced has an influence on how we perceive the size of an item.[…] Products with “small-sounding” sale prices (like $2.33) seemed like better deals than products…
“A one day conference looking at how ideas are designed to be more understandable. It’s hosted by the St Bride’s Library and curated by Max Gadney.
We will not just be looking at the discipline of…
Free-to-use toolkit for exploring and data mining Twitter.
Exploring the lack of version control systems in non-programming environments: “suppose you are writing a dissertation and you have a file called diss.doc in which you keep writing and writing and…
Exploring the lack of version control systems in non-programming disciplines: “This is the big deal. This is the secret weapon in Engineering. We not only save every version of our work, we also…
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