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The Spiral Data Tato -- A Curiously Complex Origami CD Case

by JJL (via)
The Spiral Data Tato is an origami CD or DVD case of the origata or tsutsumi ilk, that is, a complicated presentation model, intended as a gift for an honored recipient. Tato is a Japanese word that means purse or wallet.

discipline and punish

by karlcow

I still have to wonder if, in fact, outsourcing the data is a smart move for any enterprise in these troubled times. There are certainly immediate, clear cost-savings benefits to such a strategy but given that data is the heart of any enterprise one should wonder if the long-term benefits aren't diminishing.

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September 2008

01net. - Effacer les données sensibles définitivement

by JJL & 1 other (via)
Avec l'affaire Clearstream, l'effacement des données revient sur le devant de la scène. Les entreprises sont elles aussi concernées, puisque 30 % des PC en fin de vie contiennent des données critiques.

SVG MAP Lab: Base map of japan with 1:25000 resolution

by karlcow 2 comments

Amount of files: About 350,000 tiles Total data size: About 1.2GB (They are totally static data.)

Yahoo! Query Language - YDN

by karlcow

The YQL platform provides a single endpoint service that enables developers to query, filter and combine data across Yahoo! and beyond. YQL exposes a SQL-like SELECT syntax that that is both familiar to developers and expressive enough for getting the right data. Through the SHOW and DESC commands we enable developers to discover the available data sources and structure without opening another web browser.

OpenGeoData » Blog Archive » Progress maps

by karlcow
les nouveaux explorateurs des données numériques, leur progrès sur quelques années.

2008 Presidential Donations: McCain vs. Obama

by karlcow

What we had to work with was over 1.4 million rows of data. We used PHP to parse the content and generate an XML file we could easily work with. As lean as we could make it, the XML file was over 110MB in size. Using Processing we rendered the XML data into our visual representation. Taking millions of rows of data, we created this graph to help quickly discern what types of donations each candidate received in a side-by-side comparison.

generatedata.com

by karlcow & 2 others

Ever needed custom formatted sample / test data, like, bad? Well, that's the idea of the Data Generator. It's a free, open source script written in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL that lets you quickly generate large volumes of custom data in a variety of formats for use in testing software, populating databases, and scoring with girls.

Specials : Nature News

by karlcow

Researchers need to adapt their institutions and practices in response to torrents of new data — and need to complement smart science with smart searching.

August 2008

Working with Time Zones

by karlcow

This document discusses some of the problems encountered when working with the date, time, and dateTime values from [XML Schema] when those value include (or omit) time zone offsets. Many W3C technologies rely on date and time types. Examples include the [XPathFO] specification, since it is the basis for XQuery and XSLT processing of date/time values, but the concepts affect any date / time processing.

scraper - Recherche Google

by decembre
screen-scraper peforms data extraction on web sites. It is a form of web scraping software for doing web data mining, web scraping, and automated data

July 2008

Freedom Not Fear 2008/International actions overview - Stoppt die Vorratsdatenspeicherung!

by webs
Manifestation à Paris le 11 Octobre contre la rétention de données.

16 Awesome Data Visualization Tools

by decembre
From navigating the Web in entirely new ways to seeing where in the world twitters are coming from, data visualization tools are changing the way we view content. We found the following 16 apps both visually stunning and delightfully useful.

Messages in a bottle » Blog Archive » Descriptive markup and data integration

by karlcow

Bear in mind that data integration and aggregation (whether large-scale or small-) are intrinsically, necessarily, kinds of data reuse. No data reuse, no data integration.

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