Do Personal Analytics Make Google Less Creepy?
We’re beginning to wake up to what free Web services do with our data. Google has been the main driver
Read More →UN Says Geo Data as Important as Roads or Telecom
The United Nations aims to take a leadership role in international geodata co-operation and infrastructure.
Last month the United Nations published a report calling Internet access essential to the exercise of human rights like freedom of expression. …
Read More →Big Data, Better Dating: How OKCupid Helps Users Find Their Perfect Match
Online dating services promise you help finding your “perfect match.” Complete your profile, answer a series of questions, choose a few filters as you search and you’re given a list of singles in your area who are most likely to be a suitable date.
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Happiness Metrics: Your Feelings as Big Data
The UK government’s Office of National Statistics has reported to the public for the first time today about its mandated new measurement of national happiness and well-being. The office has already surveyed 20,000 people on four different emotional an…
Read More →On Data Markets and Their Evolution
More than two years after President Obama’s memorandum on his open government initiative, thousands of public authorities and organizations worldwide have embraced the main idea behind it. Opening up data and making them publicly available on the Web h…
Read More →Jobs for Data Scientists Explode Across The Market
In what’s likely just the beginning of a long-term story, job listings indexed by employment search engine Indeed.com indicate that market demand for data scientists and people capable of working with “big data” took a huge leap over the last year. …
Read More →New Web Service Analyzes Thousands of Data Sets For Any Community
Geographic data giant ESRI today released to the public its new web service called Community Analyst, which offers fast search and mapping of up to five simultaneous data sets among thousands of options. Community Analyst has been in beta testing for …
Read More →Ravel Open Sources GoldenOrb, Big Data Graph Processing for Everyone
Traditional databases, even when they’re called “relational databases,” tend not handle relationships very well, and the traditional way of processing data – particularly large-scale datasets – can actually mean that some of the relationships between o…
Read More →Factual and SimpleGeo Team Up to Offer Developers a Better Geo-Data Toolkit
Developers working on building location-aware applications need two at least two things: a robust set of tools and quality geo-data.
A new strategic partnership announced today between two of the leading geo-data startups, Factual and SimpleGeo, wi…
Read More →Making Cash an Option for Digital & Mobile Payments, Dwolla Launches "Grid"
Online and mobile cash-based payment service Dwolla has launched its first API (application programming interface), which the company calls “Grid.” This tool allows for the integration of Dwolla’s cash-based payments service within other platforms and …
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