Julie Steele
Julie Steele is the Content Editor for Strata at O’Reilly Media. She is co-author of Beautiful Visualization and Designing Data Visualizations. She finds beauty in exploring complex systems, and thinks in metaphors. The best part of her day is finding patterns across verticals and traditional silos, and connecting people who are working on similar problems in seemingly unrelated areas. She is particularly drawn to the visual medium as a way to understand and transmit information.
Julie holds a Master’s degree in Political Science (International Relations) from Rutgers University in Newark. She lives in New York City, where she cooks, reads, designs, and practices yoga.
Eyebeam Update: Two months after Sandy
Eyebeam is turning the road to recovery into an opportunity for progress, but getting it done will take a whole community.
After the storm: Putting Eyebeam back together
The largest not-for-profit art and technology center in the US was devastated by Hurricane Sandy, and you can help
Printing ourselves
At its best, 3D printing can make us more human by making us whole.
The miracle of a thumbnail image from Mars
The Curiosity rover marked its Mars landing with a small photo. Think about all the work that went into that one shot.
Why data visualization matters
The best data visualizations expose something new.
Effective data visualizations go beyond aesthetics; they also allow organizations to make quick and correct decisions from massive amounts of information.
Data and the human-machine connection
Opera Solutions' Arnab Gupta says human plus machine always trumps human vs machine.
Managing data and extracting meaning require new approaches, new education, and even a new language. Opera Solutions CEO Arnab Gupta discusses each of these areas in the following interview.
Dusting for device fingerprints
BlueCava can identify specific Internet-connected devices and how they're used. Is this the future of tracking?
BlueCava lets businesses identify devices that are coming to their websites. In this interview, BlueCava CEO David Norris discusses fraud prevention, privacy, and the state of reputation technology.
Data markets aren't coming. They're already here
Gnip's Jud Valeski on data resellers, end-user responsibility, and the threat of black markets.
Gnip cofounder and CEO Jud Valeski discusses data markets (and black markets), social media, and real-time data's impact on customer relations.
Strata Week: Data centers
Solving the problem of where to store huge amounts of data
This week, we look at the problem of too much government data, and companies beginning to build air-economized data centers (some in barns!). Plus: a few suggestions for pre-Strata reading on big data.
Strata Week: Shop 'til you drop
Stack Exchange goes in-house, Netflix pays for platforms, survey data gets visualized, and Infochimps acquires Data Marketplace
In this edition of Strata Week: Stack Exchange takes their hardware and software in-house; Neflix explains their adoption of AWS and open source; the New York Times maps out survey and census data; and Infochimps acquires Data Marketplace.
