With fewer and fewer computers packing an optical drive, you might be under the impression that the accompanying media is dead. Not if you’re to believe Sony and Panasonic, who are planning to develop a next-gen optical disc with capacity of at least 300GB.
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New York’s Citi Bike scheme has been up and running for a couple of months now—which means there’s a glut of data available to analyze. This interactive New Yorker viz shows how the bikes were used every 15 minutes between June 8th and July 8th.
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If you ever find yourself having to wait for YouTube to buffer video—but ads, they load just fine—then don’t worry, you’re not alone. In fact, it’s likely you’re on the receiving end of a corporate deal which limits how much you can enjoy online video.
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Some players score, other set up—that’s just the way it is. This data visualization takes that idea and runs with it, churning through three seasons-worth of data to anaylze where Premier League soccer assists originate from.
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An amendment designed to stop the NSA from collecting phone records of millions of Americans has been narrowly defeated, 205 votes to 217, in the House of Representatives.
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It sometimes feels like there’s a big data breach in the news every week—but some are far worse than others. This data visulization shows the world’s biggest data breaches to date, and how they compare over time.
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Give a bunch of scientists a dataset like Wikipedia to play with, and it’ll keep ’em amused for a long old time. Now, a team of researchers from Oxford University have mined the rich seam to work out the ten most internationally controversial topics on the online encyclopaedia.
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While we know the government’s spying on our personal data, what’s it doing with all of the public info it gathers? President Obama’s answer to that question was creating Data.gov, a portal that publishes, among other things, public school funding amounts. Four years on, though, and the site looks and navigates like a product of its time. The modern redesign that launched today as a preview is part of this May’s Open Data Executive Order that hopes to graft non-proprietary and machine-readable data formats “into the Federal Government’s DNA.” The homepage combines published research from a range of headings — education, energy, finance, global development, health, research and safety — and the tweets of public servants about said data, into one river of news. It’s cool to see the government taking charge and making all this easier to access, but we’re wondering how much it’ll cost us next April.
Filed under: Internet
Via: The Verge
Source: Whitehouse, Data.gov
Microsoft has plans for your home: with its new Lab of Things, it wants to suck up data from around your home so you can probe, analyze and experiment to your heart’s content.
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Illustrator Andrew DeGraff thinks about films differently to you and I: he sees them as giant maps of physical locations, just waiting to be explored. Can you work out which films these wonderful treasure maps drawn by DeGraff are supposed to represent?
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