Datamining
Cal-Adapt: Understanding California’s Climate Change Predictions
By cdharris at June 8, 2011 | 6:34 am | 0 Comment
UC Berkeley's Geospatial Innovation Facility -- with support from the Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) agency -- has developed a climate adaptation planning tool it is calling "Cal-Adapt" [cal-adapt.org.] The tool models climate change scenarios in a mapping format, including projections through 2099 for factors such as wildfire risk, sea-level rise more...
Visualizing Science Readers
By cdharris at December 8, 2010 | 2:25 pm | 0 Comment
Curious about what scientists might be reading?? Springer (noted publisher of more than 5 million scientific and academic titles) has launched a new analytics tool that reveals how its users and subscribers are downloading its content. There are a number of interactive visualization tools at the site,? including a world map illustrating the origin of download more...
Blog , Data Visualization , Datamining , Geolocation and Psychogeography , Media and Markets
Using the GPS in your celphone for traffic reporting…
By cdharris at February 20, 2007 | 12:21 pm | 0 Comment
IntelliOne Technologies has just launched a real-world test of Need4Speed, a real-time traffic-monitoring system that tracks drivers' cell phones. From their website: 'Unlike any other solution available today, the IntelliOne Roadway Speed Measurement System produces live roadway speeds for all highways and surface streets where mobile phone coverage exists, accurate to more...
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Tracking the Congressional attention span
By cdharris at February 20, 2007 | 12:08 pm | 0 Comment
Arstechnica reports: "While text mining 330,000 New York Times articles poses an interesting challenge, it's not as interesting as sifting through 70 million words (from over 70,000 unique documents) found in the Congressional Record. A team of political science researchers found that their software was able to answer questions too difficult for humans to more...
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Price Protection and Pricing Transparency
By cdharris at January 9, 2007 | 10:48 am | 0 Comment
Many experts have written about the threat that total "price transparency" represents to traditional retailers,? and many retailers have seen their businesses decline due to the online consumer's ability to easily compare prices.? Even in a store,? new barcode readers inside some celphones allow consumers to check online pricing across vendors and decide immediately if more...
Finding subversives by datamining Amazon’s “wishlists”
By cdharris at August 20, 2006 | 4:24 pm | 0 Comment
Tom Owad tells us "It used to be you had to get a warrant to monitor a person or a group of people. Today, it is increasingly easy to monitor ideas. And then track them back to people. Most of us don't have access to the databases, software, or computing power of the NSA, FBI, and other government agencies. But an individual with access to the internet can more...
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AOL Apologizes for Release of User Search Data
By cdharris at August 8, 2006 | 9:56 am | 0 Comment
AOL says it "screwed up" when it recently released search terms entered by 658,000 subscribers to researchers over a three month period, and has since retracted the data. Privacy advocates said that the search data could be linked to individual users, even though AOL replaced names and user ID's of searchers with identification numbers. Examples of more...
Bush administration internet regulation proposal
By cdharris at July 19, 2006 | 10:35 am | 0 Comment
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has suggested a mandatory website "self-rating" system. Naturally the contradiction in terms has not gone unnoticed. The system, very similar to one suggested under Clinton's administration, would require by law all commercial websites to place 'marks and notices' on each page containing 'sexually more...
Mashup Fever
By cdharris at June 11, 2006 | 1:21 pm | 0 Comment
For months the announcements of new mashups have been coming fast and furious. Earlier this year there were only a few hundred mashups... then a few thousand... and every day there are more. It reminds me of 1994-1995 all over again, when new websites were being added to Netscape every day and announced in such places as "best of the net.." more...
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Topsail and Advise: More domestic datamining
By cdharris at March 4, 2006 | 9:51 am | 0 Comment
Newsweek recently published a story saying that the "real datamining" in governmental quarters is taking place within new programs such as the renamed "TOPSAIL." The Christian Science Monitor also released a story about a new data-mining program at the Homeland Security Department. It's called Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, and more...
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Injected RFID required for employment…
By cdharris at February 24, 2006 | 4:39 pm | 0 Comment
Slashdot recently reported that a Cincinnati corporation is requiring employees to access its datacenter through an implanted, glass-encapsulated Verichip RFID tag. Previously, they gained access through an RFID tag attached to a keychain or lavaliere. more...
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Just don’t annoy me
By cdharris at January 22, 2006 | 7:36 pm | 0 Comment
A new federal law, passed earlier this week, states that when and if you "annoy" someone on the Internet, you must disclose your identity and cannot be anonymous. "Whoever...utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the more...
Why Botfarms and zombies are important to us
By cdharris at January 20, 2006 | 5:53 pm | 0 Comment
Although it has been well known for quite some time now that the curious profession (formerly "hobby") of cracking was become infiltrated by organized crime interests and criminals in general... we now have our first big prosecution of the enablers of this phenomenon. It turns out to be...A 20-year-old hacker who pleaded guilty this week more...
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Feds seeking Google search records
By cdharris at January 19, 2006 | 8:41 pm | 0 Comment
In court papers filed in US District Court in San Jose, Justice Department lawyers revealed that Google has refused to comply with a subpoena issued last year for records, which include a request for one million random web addresses and records of all Google searches from any one-week period.??? The government indicated that other, unspecified search engines have agreed more...
News is pain
By cdharris at January 19, 2006 | 1:35 pm | 0 Comment
Sure,? hearing the news can be depressing.?? But can it cause real pain????In an interesting art and technology project,? live news stories containing certain keywords sends an electrical charge through a type of electrode affixed to the viewer's skin, on any part of the body. The level of the pain felt is intended to correspond to the type of news story being more...
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