I’ve been mumbling in twitter (like anyone notices) about a very interesting data gathering/visualizing tool that rides the back coat tails of twitter in a clever way. I’ll spill the beans first, but stick around for the story and the after blog coffee, okay?
Your Flowing Data (YFD) is described by its creator, Nathan, as “a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘data’
Jul 29
d yfd found one awesome data tool
Jul 27
Song Lyrics Data
cc licensed flickr photo shared by crabchick
There’s something afoot abut data.
Whether it is Sir Tim’s vision of a Web of Data (or is it the W3C Linked Data?), there is something emerging with not only the availability of more data (heck even the government is on it http://www.data.gov) but more what we can do [...]
Nov 17
Geocommons Makes it Easy for Anyone to Mashup Data & Maps
Sometimes it can take months to answer a question; Robert, a colleague I met in Shanghai who teaches at Fudan University asked if I knew of any tools that would make it easy for his journalism students to generate their own mashups of data and maps. I did not have an answer then; I [...]
