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#Today's #Photo: @IBM Visualization of @Wikipedia data As well the store of #data, it is often difficult to come up with compelling images of different database technologies. This is a of daily Wikipedia edits activity by bot script "Pearle" on done by IBM. More info can be found in Proceedings of INTERACT (2007). "Visualizing Activity on Wikipedia with Chromograms". The data is several terrabytes in size. So this is "big data." At least for a while, until the equivalent of Moore's law for data storage makes it small data in a few decades or so. :) data Photo: Wikimedia/Fernanda B. Viégas/CC-BY-2.0
A Visualization of Wikipedia Data

In addition to the difficulty of efficiently storing and processing very large data sets, it is often difficult to come...

While virtual reality models are cool, in this article we talk about mathematical models and dashboards for governance like the social progress index.
Error bands, or why models will be models (of the mathematical variety)

In response to our article on the Social Progress Index (SPI) and prediction markets, the Social Progress Index folks asked...

Pudong district of Shanghai as viewed from the Bund. The haze is likely due to poor air quality. In the future, it is hoped smart cities with sensors may help mitigate this kind of PM2.5 pollution. Image: seto_supraenergy/Creative Commons 2 share-alike by attribution
Smart cities: analytics, bigdata, cheap IoT sensors

Analytics, big data, cheap IoT sensors and other new #tech will help create smart cities and reduce air pollution. Shown...

Cheap air filters (purifiers) for those who need to slice their budget? Photo Credits: taxcredits.net/Flickr/Creative Commons By Attribution License
Cheap air filters for the broke?

Cheap air filters when you can't afford to make a fashion statement? Air pollution is serious enough to create elevated...

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