Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

figshare helps academic institutions store,
share and manage all of their research outputs

But as access to the published results of scholarly rese... issues around making the data that is summarized in thos... available are coming to the fore. The White House memora... a certainty. Sharing the results of scientific research ... unveiling a

Can an algorithm be racist? It’s a question that shoul... all data-driven organizations.

Death to typewriters

... some of the technical (CSS, JavaScript, Closure) details in Medium’s typography and typesetting. Note: we use LESS, so you will see some light LESS features (mostly variables).

How a Lone Hacker Shredded the Myth of Crowdsourcing

How a Lone Hacker Shredded the Myth of Crowdsourcing

CodeMirror is a versatile text editor implemented in Jav... browser. It is specialized for editing code, and comes w... language modes and addons that implement more advanced e... functionality.
A rich programming API and a CSS theming system are avai

What we should take from this doesn't have to do with co... pasts. It's not about appreciating what we've experience... able to let go of the past, if we feel like it. This is ... fact that there isn't an algorithmic code for everything... to evoke em

The HAT is the first-ever personal data platform (HATPDP... individuals’ own data for their personal use. Individu... their own data from internet-connected objects or servic... acquired data is then transformed by the HATPDP to enabl...
The HAT is

The HAT is the first-ever personal data platform (HATPDP... individuals’ own data for their personal use. Individu... their own data from internet-connected objects or servic... acquired data is then transformed by the HATPDP to enabl...
The HAT is

LokiJS is an in-memory database which prioritises perfor... everything *
LokiJS supports field indexing for faster document acces ...

For the first time, data scientists can monetize their k... creativity just as app developers do. When this happens,... the dynamics of the industry – essentially, data scien... “self-publish” their domain expertise as cloud servi... be made acc

Mode is trying to do for data scientists and analysts wh... developers by giving them a place where they can find, c... on data.

Because my work was cited as an inspiration for the Khan...
Programming is a way of thinking, not a rote skill. ...
People understand what they can see. If a programmer ...
Thus, the goals of a programming system should be:
... turn it into som

Recently, thanks to a Freedom of Information request, Chris Whong received and made public a complete dump of historical trip and fare logs from NYC taxis. It’s pretty incredible: there are over 20GB of uncompressed data comprising more t...

Special Sections
Big Data| Critiquing Big Data: Politics, Ethics, Epistem ...
Kate Crawford, Mary L. Gray, Kate Miltner 10 pgs.
Big Data, Big Questions| The Big Data Divide ABSTRACT PDF
... Geoffrey C. Bowker 5 pgs.

It may seem like teens are always over-sharing without a... world where opting out of online culture is hardly an op... far more sophisticated view of privacy than adults give ...

Get ready to roll your own cell network! OpenBTS is now ... robust and feature-filled, offers significant improvemen... capacity and system management features. OpenBTS 4.0 fur... of RAN infrastructure to low cost, standard computer har... source soft

Tate holds over 70,000 items in its collection.
Help us locate them around the world.

Lyra is an interactive environment that enables custom v... without writing any code. Graphical “marks” can be b... using property drop zones; dynamically positioned using ... directly moved, rotated, and resized using handles. Lyra... data pipeli

The UK Government has decided that Open Document Format, the OpenOffice-derived file format, is the best choice for a... documents.
The Cabinet Office's Standards Hub explained its thinkin ...
“When dealing with citizens, information should be ...

Cellphone users who attempt to install the Facebook Mess... to agree to terms of service that allow the social netwo... the microphone on their device to record audio at any ti... permission.