Check-ins are only the beginning. Here's what lies ahead for local.
by Tyler Bell
| @twbell
| 2 September 2010
The check-in is hardly the apogee of the local consumer experience. It works, for now, but it won't be the long-term solution for customer/business relationships and physical point of presence. So what will replace it? Here's a look at the local sector's near-term future.
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Data Pointed, CouchDB in the Cloud, Launching Strata
by Edd Dumbill
| @edd
| 2 September 2010
Data Week is a new series that brings together notable stories and developments from the data world. Links in this edition include: the connection between visualizations and art, advice on becoming a data scientist, BigCouch goes open source, and more.
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Science Blogs, AppEngine Community, Kickstarter for Good, Manmade Geography
by Nat Torkington
| @gnat
| 2 September 2010
- Guardian Science Blogs -- the latest in a series of science blog aggregators. Nobody is too sure what benefits a blog umbrella like Discovery or Nature (or the Guardian) offers bloggers. Regardless of this, the content is fantastic.
- v2ex: A Community Running on AppEngine -- no hosting costs, massive scalability.
- Raising Money for Vanuatu Arts Center -- a Kickstarter project to fund a 6-hectare/14.8-acre off-the-grid artists retreat, cultural preservation and technological education space in the remote Pacific island of Vanuatu. Kickstarter is incredible. (via BoingBoing)
- Orbiter (XKCD) -- names are human artifacts, as every Internet mapping company knows. I'm reminded of how Gracenote, who run CDDB, store every datum submitted to them, and consequently have nearly fifty spellings of Britney Spears.
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IBM's Julia Grace on social media shifts and why 3-D and data are made for each other.
by Mac Slocum
| @macslocum
| 1 September 2010
IBM researcher and Web 2.0 Expo speaker Julia Grace spends her days digging into data. Her tools are a little unusual, though. Instead of spreadsheets and bar graphs, she uses visualizations and a seven-foot-tall, three-dimensional globe. Grace discusses life with a giant globe and explores her recent findings in this Q&A.
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Faces in R, Open Source Web Analytics, Small File Store, Building Mapper
by Nat Torkington
| @gnat
| 1 September 2010
- R Library for Chernoff Faces -- faces represent the rows of a data matrix by faces. plot.faces plots faces into a scatterplot. Interesting emotional way to visualize data, which was used to good effect (though not with this library) by BERG in Schooloscope. (via the tutorial at Flowing Data)
- Piwik -- GPLed web analytics package.
- Pomegranate -- a data store for billions of tiny files. (via the High Scalability blog interview with the creator of Pomegranate)
- New Backpack Makes 3D Maps of Buildings -- the backpack indoor equivalent of the Google Maps cars, from Berkeley researchers.
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by Ben Lorica
| @dliman
| 31 August 2010
Measured in terms of (U.S.) job postings, Amazon's Cloud Computing platform is still larger than Google's App Engine. What's interesting is that the gap has closed over the past year.
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