Data & Stuff // Neil Houston
Yeap, data and stuff
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December 9th, 2010VisualisationSpotted: December 5th – December 9th:
- Network&Society – Redrawing the map of Great Britain from a network of human interactions. <br />
Do regional boundaries defined by governments respect the more natural ways that people interact across space? This paper proposes a novel, fine-grained approach to regional delineation, based on analyzing networks of billions of individual human transactions. - Rank « Gareth Holt – A series of 13 charts and graphs produced with Ben Branagan for the UK traveling exhibition ‘Rank’: Picturing The Social Order 1516 – 2009. Commissioned by curator Alistair Robinson and exhibited at the Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Leeds.
- http://bokardo.com/archives/the-behavior-youve-designed-for/ – I’ve given a few talks recently and by far and away the one idea that is resonating with people is the idea that the behavior you’re seeing is the behavior you’ve designed for
- Metricly – Aggregated Dashboards for Every Business – Dive deep into your data<br />
With your data in one place, Metricly provides a consistent and powerful set of tools to analyze your metrics – with subtotals, rollups, filters, and insights that help you take action. - Muddy – Muddy is an indexing and categorisation tool for use by people and companies with lots of content. Using information derived from Wikipedia, Muddy finds notable people, places and organisations in any webpage,
- Network&Society – Redrawing the map of Great Britain from a network of human interactions. <br />
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October 10th, 2010Visualisation
Spotted: August 26th – October 10th:
- 21 Ruby Tricks You Should Be Using In Your Own Code – Ruby tips and tricks
- London, Paris, Seville, Dublin, Washington DC & Rome bike hire docking station maps | Charlotte Gilhooly – Comparing the density of bike hire stations over London, Paris, Seville, Dublin and Washington DC.
- PeteSearch: Geodict – an open-source tool for extracting locations from text –
- Headers & Footers in LaTeX – How to define headers within a LaTeX document by using Fancyhdr
- Do you strip or crunch? A lazy marketer’s guide to social media campaigns – theplan – A deconstruction of a pretend social media campaign, to show why Polo are taking the wrong tact witht their current campaign.