I’ve said on here before that not enough visualisation is being used, so it’s great to find new ideas - even if they’re not totally useable/useful. DoodleBuzz is one such example, you could call it the Zen of news exploration. Even after 5 minutes of doodling, I have relatively little idea of what’s going on. [...]
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Exploring the news, visually
Published September 25th, 2008 in data mining and visualization. 0 CommentsCloning me, Cloning you: RFID implants
Published August 7th, 2008 in RTBB and data mining. 1 CommentEver since Kevin Warwick implanted a chip in his arm in 1998 (the main use of which seemed to be to turn lights on and off in rooms he entered - or at least that’s the bit I remember), RFID chips have been spreading far and wide.
Our most prominent use in the UK has probably [...]
Reality Mining
Published July 31st, 2008 in Profiling, Statistics, data mining and geotargeting. 0 CommentsWhat does your cell phone know about you? Well, a fair bit according to researchers at MIT. For instance, they claim they can divine, among other things:
- how happy and productive you are
- your social status
- your social group
Fundamentally this is just an extension of any form of data mining - take a large amount [...]
