Long term trends: The Ngrams Viewer
“A database of intentions” is how John Battelle described Google. It is a thrilling concept, at times unsettling, that you can see into the searchin...
Tag: data mining
Facebook planet
This image has been on my computer desktop and on my mind since I saw it in December. High time I shared it here, really. It’s a data visualisation of 10 ...
Mining the where: CIA-funded start-up says 80% of online content contains location information
Last week at Local Social Summit I talked about some of the issues around location and privacy. Especially problematic is people’s inadvertent tagging of ...
Mining the now: Real time sense making
Here’s an emerging idea about how we can and will make sense of the vast amounts of data becoming available about what is happening right now… Julia...
Web shadows: Looking after ourselves online
I’ve been reading and therefore thinking a fair bit about privacy and personal online reputation. It’s something I’ve touched on in the pa...
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