Crypto-consumers
Tweet The fact that Ad Blocker and similar plug-ins have long been top of the charts for browser extensions gave us a clue to what people like online: an absenc...
Tag: data
Maps made of tweets
Tweet This is a lovely image was created by the Visual Insights team at Twitter from billions of geo-tagged tweets posted since 2009. Look closely and you can p...
Data exhaust trails
Tweet Another useful insight from Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think: A term of art has emerged to describe the digital tr...
Datafication
Tweet “Big data” as a term reminds me of “social media” a few years ago. It is in danger – through mis-use and over-use – of...
Crowdsensing: mobile data and predictive algorithms
Tweet In Pakistan, mobile data has helped the authorities predict where an epidemic will break out: Researchers working for the Pakistani government developed a...
Long term trends: The Ngrams Viewer
Tweet “A database of intentions” is how John Battelle described Google. It is a thrilling concept, at times unsettling, that you can see into the se...
Smells like social media meaning
Tweet Falsche freunde. False friends. You hear a phrase that sounds like one you already know and misinterpret it… As I’ve said before this happens ...
Milieus of interest in Amazon recommendations
Tweet Networks are an abiding obsession for me. So I love this… This data visualisation video illustrates how Amazon applies the power of networks to sell...
The flawed optimism of digital advertising models
Tweet “Do you do any work on how annoying you are?” – Peter Day to an ad re-targeter… In Business, the podcast by the BBC’s Peter ...
Facebook planet
Tweet 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 ...