“Exceptional fast food and exceptional dance moves. Most Americans believe that this country was gifted by God, a blessed nation, and that we are better. Yeah, we the promised land, a sacred place, gettin blessed by Joe Biden in space!”
O’Reilly’s imminent book ‘Beautiful Data - The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions”. The quality of O’Reilly books is so much more hit and miss these days, which I guess is understandable given their huge breadth. But I’m hoping this book turns out to be a good one.
The power of data to tell stories and the stories hidden in our oceans of data waiting to be told. BBC series, “Britain From Above” contains some simply stunning imagery. Watch.
Psychologist finds Wikipedians grumpy and closed-minded
Excerpt: “Disagreeable and closed to new ideas - that’s the picture that emerges of contributors to community-curated encyclopaedia Wikipedia from a survey of their psychological attributes…”.
Link: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16349-psychologist-finds-wikipedians-grumpy-and-closedminded.html
Photo Credit: http://s82.photobucket.com/albums/j251/jkernitzki/
Interesting article which highlights evidence that challenges the Long Tail theory. It appears the product suggestion engines which are based on ‘customers who bought this, also bought these…’ kinds of logic, reinforce the purchase of popular products. Better tools or methods are needed to ‘discover’ the golden pins hidden in the haystack.
