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Networks, Crowds, and Markets: A Book by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg
Over the past decade there has been a growing public fascination with the complex "connectedness" of modern society. This connectedness is found in many incarnations: in the rapid growth of the Internet and the Web, in the ease with which global communication now takes place, and in the ability of news and information as well as epidemics and financial crises to spread around the world with surprising speed and intensity. These are phenomena that involve networks, incentives, and the aggregate behavior of groups of people; they are based on the links that connect us and the ways in which each of our decisions can have subtle consequences for the outcomes of everyone else.
Networks, Crowds, and Markets combines different scientific perspectives in its approach to understanding networks and behavior. Drawing on ideas from economics, sociology, computing and information science, and applied mathematics, it describes the emerging field of study that is growing at the interface of all these areas, addressing fundamental questions about how the social, economic, and technological worlds are connected.
The book is based on an inter-disciplinary course entitled Networks that we teach at Cornell. The book, like the course, is designed at the introductory undergraduate level with no formal prerequisites. To support deeper explorations, most of the chapters are supplemented with optional advanced sections.
December 2009
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The decade in news photographs
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November 2009
Timetoast Timelines | Create timelines, share them on the web.
10 Steps To The Perfect Portfolio Website - Smashing Magazine
Official Google Mobile Blog: Google Latitude, now with Location History & Alerts
People also want to know when their friends were nearby, but it's not always convenient to keep checking Latitude to see if a friend has recently shown up near you. After working on this for a while, we realized it wasn't as straightforward as sending a notification every time Latitude friends were near each other. Imagine that you're Latitude friends with your roommate or co-workers. It would get pretty annoying to get a text message every single time you walked in the door at home or pulled into work. To avoid this, we decided to make Location Alerts smarter by requiring that you also enable Location History. Using your past location history, Location Alerts can recognize your regular, routine locations and not create alerts when you're at places like home or work. Alerts will only be sent to you and any nearby friends when you're either at an unusual place or at a routine place at an unusual time. Keep in mind that it may take up to a week to learn your "unusual" locations and start sending alerts.
Dynamic Diagrams : Information Design Watch : The Virtue of Forgetting
Now today there are few human beings who, for biological reasons, cannot forget. What sounds like a blessing, they certainly do remember where they parked their car in a shopping mall. It turns out that they have tremendous difficulties in acting in time, in deciding in time, because they remember all their bad, failed decisions in the past, and therefore hesitate to make a decision in the present.
October 2009
An Informal Catalogue of Slit-Scan Video Artworks and Research - Golan Levin and Collaborators
Slitscan imaging techniques are used to create static images of time-based phenomena. In traditional film photography, slit scan images are created by exposing film as it slides past a slit-shaped aperture. In the digital realm, thin slices are extracted from a sequence of video frames, and concatenated into a new image.
VC blog » Blog Archive » Information Visualization Manifesto
Over the past few months I’ve been talking with many people passionate about Information Visualization who share a sense of saturation over a growing number of frivolous projects. The criticism is slightly different from person to person, but it usually goes along these lines: “It’s just visualization for the sake of visualization”, “It’s just eye-candy”, “They all look the same”.
Internet Alchemy » Representing Time in RDF Part 1
Way back in 2006 I wrote a blog post concerning the modelling of time in RDF (see Refactoring Bio With Einstein Part 3: Temporal Invariants. That post also provoked some discussion in the blogosphere. Although I haven’t written anything on the subject for the past three years I haven’t stopped thinking about it. In fact I’ve been working quite hard on the problem, mainly by modelling real data, especially geographical information. This is the first of a series of blog posts describing my experiments. I’d like to thank Leigh Dodds and Jeni Tennison who gave me valuable feedback on an earlier version of this write-up.
September 2009
Cambridge Grammar for First Certificate (book audio)
Book Review: 'The Year That Changed the World' by Michael Meyer - washingtonpost.com
What Keeps Twitter Chirping Along - InternetNews.com
August 2009
CELEOCANTH | & other ancient memories from the future - 2009 on Vimeo
In-search of the source of the universe, singularity, art and science. A short docu/drama inspired by Space Collective and other forward thinking terrestrials. Set in the near future and narrated through a series of interviews from the past and letters from the future in a kind of audiovisual diary essay style. Shot in 5 countries over 2 years. This film uses five digit dates, eg (0)2009 - the extra zero is to solve the deca-millennium bug which will come into effect in about 8,000 years. Directed & Produced by Jason Gleeson
Tech heroes of the past: Where are they now? | Royal Pingdom
Photographie: John Miranda
Chesler Chronicles » Stories That Matter Since Israel Is Still Being Demonized
July 2009
