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Knowledge Discovery for Counterterrorism and Law Enforcement: David Skillicorn: Amazon.com: Kindle Store
Algorithms. It’s a fancy word for something I do every day, and you should, too — Getting the computer to do your bidding. Okay, it can get a little more complex than that. But not much. I’ll back up.
As the Web matures and the range of mobile devices we use to access it rapidly grows, our jobs as web designers and developers get considerably more complicated. A decade ago things were much simpler.
WeiboTrendsPro, a Twitter feed that tweets English translations of posts that have been deleted from the Chinese social networking website Sina Weibo, has been created by three JMSC graduate students.
This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Getting Started with Firefox OSGetting Started with Firefox OSGetting Started with Firefox OSGetting Started with Firefox OS: Hosted and Packaged AppsMobile applications are all the rage these days.
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By Bobby Evans and Andy Feng (@afeng76) At Yahoo! we have worked on the convergence of Storm with Hadoop, as mentioned in our earlier post. We are pleased to announce that Storm-YARN has been released as open source.
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Journos create data journalism experiment Detention Logs MuMbrella Three young freelance journalists, who invested hundreds of hours in decoding and reformatting thousands of Department of Immigration records, are behind one of the largest data...
A brief overview of how de-duplication, clustering, human coding, and custom machine classification can create a reusable analytic pathway through tens of thousands…
Via Stuart Shulman
As the rainy Oregon winter gives way to high temperatures and dry conditions, many Oregonians reluctantly enter allergy and sneeze season.
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35 million missed calls. That’s the number of calls that 75-year old social justice leader Anna Hazare received from people across India who supported his efforts to fight corruption.
Twitter has always been associated with brevity and immediacy, and there is little wonder that the combination of these two has led to a preconceived notion that linguistic style on Twitter is closer to the “lingo” used on informal mediums … Continue...
Agenda-setting (telling people ‘what to think about‘, in McCombs’ and Shaw’s terms) is a key role played by the mainstream media.
When traversing the internet you'll find a lot of useful webservices that output XML. I have nothing against XML, but I find it much easier to work with data programmatically if it is in JSON. There didn't seem to be much out there ...
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How La Nación Costa Rica developed ICIJ’s application to visualize offshore companies.
Real-time information from microblogs like Twitter is useful for different applications such as market research, opinion mining, and crisis management. For many of those messages, location information is required to derive useful insights.
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Getting Started with Firefox OSGetting Started with Firefox OSGetting Started with Firefox OSGetting Started with Firefox OS: Hosted and Packaged AppsMozilla’s Firefox OS runs Web apps instead of native apps.
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When breaking news events like natural disasters happen, where do you go for information? Once upon a time, professional journalists were responsible for gathering information and sharing it with an audience.
In this presentation, Sameer Farooqui is going to introduce the Hadoop Distributed File System, an Apache open source distributed file system designed to run...
Via AnalyticsInnovations, Toni Sánchez
Sometimes you need to quickly immerse yourself in a new field. You might want to gain expertise or quickly gauge what the current issues are around a particular topic. One way of doing this is by c...
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