Audrey Watters
Audrey Watters is a technology writer and rabble-rouser with a Master's Degree in Folklore. She was working on a PhD in Comparative Literature, but chose instead to write about data, culture, education and technology outside of academia rather than finish her dissertation. Audrey has written for ReadWriteWeb, Huffington Post, and NPR.
Strata Week: A home for negative and null results
Figshare wants research data, Accel makes a huge data investment, LinkedIn shares its DataFu.
Figshare relaunches with an eye toward making more research data accessible. Elsewhere, Accel invests $52.5 million in Code 42 and LinkedIn open sources DataFu.
Visualization of the Week: Visualizing your friends’ Facebook likes
Tony Hirst's Facebook visualization shows "social interest positioning."
Tony Hirst used Google Refine and Gephi to reveal the likes his Facebook friends have in common.
Visualization of the Week: Visualizing your friends' Facebook likes
Tony Hirst's Facebook visualization shows "social interest positioning."
Tony Hirst used Google Refine and Gephi to reveal the likes his Facebook friends have in common.
Strata Week: A .data TLD?
A proposal for a .data TLD, flavors of Hadoop, and a vote for pseudonymous commenters.
In this week's data news, Stephen Wolfram calls for a .data top-level domain and Cloudera responds to Hadoop version 1.0.
Visualization of the Week: AntiMap
A mobile mapping app lets users capture and visualize their movements.
The DIY mapping tool AntiMap lets users capture their movements via their mobile devices, then visualize and analyze their movements.
Strata Week: Unfortunately for some, Uber's dynamic pricing worked
Dynamic pricing angers some Uber users, Hadoop hits 1.0, a possible set back for open-access research.
Uber's dynamic pricing worked as intended on New Year's Eve, but not everyone is happy about that. Elsewhere, Hadoop reaches the 1.0 milestone and proposed legislation seeks to repeal an open-access research policy.
Strata Week: Unfortunately for some, Uber’s dynamic pricing worked
Dynamic pricing angers some Uber users, Hadoop hits 1.0, a possible set back for open-access research.
Uber's dynamic pricing worked as intended on New Year's Eve, but not everyone is happy about that. Elsewhere, Hadoop reaches the 1.0 milestone and proposed legislation seeks to repeal an open-access research policy.
The year in big data and data science
Hadoop, security and open data defined the data world in 2011.
From wide adoption of Hadoop to personal data empowerment, Radar data correspondent Audrey Watters looks back on the data trends that shaped 2011.
Visualization of the Week: Mapping traffic casualties
A BBC visualization maps every traffic casualty in the UK between 1999-2010.
More than a decade's worth of traffic accident data is plotted out in a BBC visualization. Locations with a history of accidents are hard to miss.
Strata Week: A new Internet data transfer speed record
Researchers hit transfer speeds of 186 Gbps. Five big data predictions for 2012.
This week's data news includes a new world record for Internet data transfer speed and Strata Conference chair Edd Dumbill's 2012 data predictions.