- GTFS Data Exchange — site for sharing the files that Google Transit collects from public transit agencies. This lets third party developers write apps that don’t involve Google.
- Tenureometer — if you are what you measure, let’s build good measures. This is one for higher education, designed to measure scholars’ impact on their fields by counting how much they have contributed to the literature and how frequently those articles have been cited.
- The Known Universe — rendered according to the best data science has. Beautiful.
- 100 Incredible Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists — it’s an astounding collection for everyone to have access to. I’m cheekily delighted by the thought that TED talks will become the next generation’s equivalent of the cheesy 16mm educational film: “oh no, not another famous person giving a 20 minute presentation on a life-changing approach to something! It’s as naff as Spongebob and that silly multicolour Google logo!”
"metrics" entries
Four short links: 28 December 2009
Transit Data, Meaningful Metrics, Best Universe Data, and Science on Screen
Four short links: 26 June 2009
Biz Numbers, Progress, Curse of the Mummy Tweets, and Crime Viz
- Size vs Growth vs Acceleration (Rowan Simpson) — you can tell how well a company is doing by the basis on which they report their progress.
- Engineers Are The Best Deal, So Stock Up On Them (TechCrunch) — Software engineers today are about 200-400% more productive than software engineers were 10 years ago because of open source software, better programming tools, common libraries, easier access to information, better education, and other factors. This means that one engineer today can do what 3-5 people did in 1999! (via Simon Willison)
- Livetweeting a Mummy CT Scan — this is why I love my Brooklyn Museum’s 1stfans membership–I know that I’m supporting the museum with the coolest online outreach.
- 20 Visualizations to Understand Crime (Flowing Data) — thoughtful analyis of a set of visualizations of crime statistics.
Understanding Web Operations Culture – the Graph & Data Obsession
We’re quite addicted to data pr0n here at Flickr. We’ve got graphs for pretty much everything, and add graphs all of the time. -John Allspaw, Operations Engineering Manager at Flickr & author of The Art of Capacity Planning One of the most interesting parts of running a large website is watching the effects of unrelated events affecting user traffic…
Two new open source projects at Velocity
At Velocity next week there will be two significant open source projects debuting. The first is the Jiffy: Open Source Performance Measurement and Instrumentation tool created by Scott Ruthfield and his team at Whitepages.com. Most tools for measuring web performance come in two flavors: Developer-installed tools (Firebug, Fiddler, etc.) that allow individuals to closely trace single sessions Third-party performance monitoring…