Dec 19
The Washington Post is a major print newspaper that was purchased by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos last summer. The paper also has a digital arm with servers that were hacked a … Continue reading
Dec 19
How does academic achievement vary across the US? While stereotypes and prejudices invariably exist, the only way to the answer that question is with some cold, hard data. Here it is.
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Dec 18
Humankind has had music for as far back as we’re able to define ourselves as such. Some of that music has always been favored by the other cave people, hunters-and-gatherers, farmers, shamans, and whoever else was hanging around.
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Dec 18
Visualization continues to mature and focus more on the data first than on novel designs and size. People improved on existing forms and got better at analysis. Readerships seemed to be more ready and eager to explore more data at a time. Fewer spam graphics landed in my inbox. So all in all, 2013 was a pretty good year for data and visualization. Let’s have a look back.
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Dec 17
Reddit may the front page of the internet, but it’s also home to all manner of weird and wonderful niche interest groups. This visualization reveals how they all relate to each other.
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Dec 11
PlayHaven and Kontagent are merging in a deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars, the companies announced today. The two are both in the mobile gaming analytics market, but with complementary specializations. PlayHaven helps mobile gaming developers identify big-spending users so developers can target promotions at them. Kontagent supplies 360-degree analytics to developers for insights […]
Dec 10
MetaPhone Stanford University crowdsourced project shows NSA’s three-hop reach
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe NSA, through means by which the average citizen cannot tread, has been collecting vast amounts of phone metadata that is intended to help locate and track terrorists and related activity. Though not always keeping up to standard, what the NSA does is not illegal and has been the subject of intense criticism across the […]
Dec 06
Sometimes, something is so big that you don’t notice it for a long time. You suddenly realize you’re in a massive crater, say, or that a building is towering overheard. Or, in this case, a gaping security void in the internet. And someone’s been siphoning massive amounts of data out of it.
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Dec 06
Last year, Verizon bought $3.6 billion worth of spectrum, and now it’s finally making use of it: its LTE coverage just got three times faster in some big cities.
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Dec 05
Google has added Gmail and Google Calendar to Google Takeout, the company’s data-export tool, making it more straightforward for users to extract their personal content and jump ship to other platforms. The new additions, which will be rolling out over the next month, join the existing Google+, YouTube, Google Drive, and other cloud export options […]
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