"strata week" entries
Strata Week: Tracking Kickstarter projects
Kickstarter data gets mined, the UDID breach source is identified, and worldwide big data to be measured one smartphone at a time.
Here are few stories from the data space that caught my attention this week.
Data mining Kickstarter
ThingsWeStart, an interactive visualization map designed to aid in Kickstarter project discovery, launched this week. The map tracks Kickstarter projects in real time and mines Kickstarter data to allow users to drill down to very specific project search results using filter combinations, something you can’t do within Kickstarter itself. For instance, here’s a screenshot of all the projects in San Francisco:
Notice on the right, there’s a list of the top 25 projects in the designated area, buttons to sort by funding amounts reached, and a field to request an email notification about new projects that come to the specified area. Here’s that same map, drilled down into three project categories:
The geography can be isolated in an area down to the zip code, so you can isolate projects in Brooklyn as opposed to New York City, for instance. (Click here for the live map.)
You can download the ThingsWeStart data spreadsheet (as of the launch) here, and you can read more about the project and its founders on the project blog, at Mashable and at Wired.
Strata Week: Data prospecting with Kaggle
Kaggle now accepting data before a contest, HP's Autonomy purchase comes into focus, Cloudera's new Hadoop distribution.
In this week's data news, Kaggle launches Prospect, HP unveils its big data plans, and Cloudera releases CDH4 (the latest version of its Hadoop distribution).
Strata Week: MIT and Massachusetts bet on big data
MIT and Massachusetts plan a big data initiative, Cisco predicts the Internet's big data future.
MIT announces a big data research center, Cisco predicts the future of the Internet (in zettabytes), and open data startup Junar announces seed funding.
Strata Week: Visualizing a better life
A visualization tool from the OECD, concerns about open data and research, and updates to Hadoop.
In this week's data news, a visualization tool charts your "better life," researchers have concerns about access to data, and updates to Hadoop.
Strata Week: Google unveils its Knowledge Graph
Google shows off its Knowledge, Yahoo stumbles, and a bill cuts some census funding.
In this week's data news, Google updates its search features with a Knowledge Graph, while the U.S. House of Representatives de-funds surveys that helped businesses construct theirs.
Strata Week: Big data boom and big data gaps
One report says the Hadoop market is booming while another says federal data usage isn't.
In this week's big data news, an IDC report points to the booming market for Hadoop and MapReduce (and if proposals for Strata are any indication, this is indeed a good time for big data).
Strata Week: Google offers big data analytics
BigQuery for all, a new resource for data journalists, open data is challenged.
In this week's data news, Google's BigQuery opens up to everyone, the Data Journalism Handbook is released, and the open data movement is called to the mat.