Moving Beyond Restaurant Recommendations to Predictive Location Analytics
The big news around maps in recent months has been the battle between Google Maps and Apple’s new alternative service for iOS 6. As smartphones increasingly become the all-in-one personal computer, organizer, assistant, and navigator, both companies want to build their own beachheads to establish platform control.
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Eric Fischer’s Work Blurs the Line Between Data Science, Cartography, and Art
During a talk earlier this year at the Big Data for the Public Good seminar series, Stamen’s Eric Rodenbeck emphasized that data scientists are not only researchers, but also storytellers. Fittingly, many in the field boast a cross-disciplinary background, such as Greenplum’s Noah Zimmerman, who moonlighted at Stanford’s design school while doing PhD research on immunology and statistics.
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Delve Into the Deep Blue Sea of Oceanic Data with Marinexplore
It’s widely known that most of the Earth is covered in water; the ocean alone covers 71% of the planet’s surface to be exact. The ocean contains fathoms of data, and with over 90% of it still to be explored, its processing and analysis is the very model of a Big Data problem. Marinexplore is a new open data collaboration platform and community containing 463,447,500 oceanographic measurements collected from 23,422 sensors.
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SDSS Releases the Largest-Ever 3-D Map of the Universe
While the landing of the Mars rover Curiosity has understandably monopolized the science headlines this week, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS) released an immense amount of data that is no less breathtaking. The international consortium of research institutions states that it constitutes the largest-ever map of the universe.
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Visualizing the Social Graph of Presidential Campaign Donors
Money and politics go hand-in-hand, a truism that holds no matter what your own political persuasion may be. With the Presidential election in high gear and hundreds of millions of dollars flowing into both the Romney and Obama campaigns, who’s pulling ahead in funding is getting nearly as much attention as the latest polling data.
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