Adobe: There Will Be No Creative Suite 7

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Many design firms buy the new Adobe Creative Suite whenever it comes out. After all, the software is a mainstay for anyone who creates on computers. But today, Adobe has announced that there will be no Creative Suite 7. That’s because the Creative Suite is giving way to the Creative Cloud—a subscription-based model in which you pay for access to Adobe’s software monthly. And as it appears, their famous individual products that traditionally make up Creative Suite, like Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign won’t be available for individual purchase, either.

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Big Data Gets Bigger: Now Google Trends Can Predict The Market - Forbes

futuristgerd:

Yesterday three economists, (Tobias Preis of Warwick Business School in the U.K., Helen Susannah Moat of University College London, and H. Eugene Stanley of Boston University) published an eye-opening paper that said Google Trends data was useful in predicting daily price moves in the Dow Jones industrial average, which consists of 30 stocks.

Gerd adds: yet another reason why the current form of stock markets won’t exist in 5 years;)

Big Data Gets Bigger: Now Google Trends Can Predict The Market - Forbes

futuristgerd:

Yesterday three economists, (Tobias Preis of Warwick Business School in the U.K., Helen Susannah Moat of University College London, and H. Eugene Stanley of Boston University) published an eye-opening paper that said Google Trends data was useful in predicting daily price moves in the Dow Jones industrial average, which consists of 30 stocks.

Gerd adds: yet another reason why the current form of stock markets won’t exist in 5 years;)

prostheticknowledge:

Prototype Real / Digital Info Interface System

Using projection and gestures to create interactive relationship with information - video embedded below:

Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a next generation user interface which can accurately detect the users finger and what it is touching, creating an interactive touchscreen-like system, using objects in the real word.

“We think paper and many other objects could be manipulated by touching them, as with a touchscreen. This system doesn’t use any special hardware; it consists of just a device like an ordinary webcam, plus a commercial projector. Its capabilities are achieved by image processing technology.”

Using this technology, information can be imported from a document as data, by selecting the necessary parts with your finger.

More at DigInfo here

RELATED: This is very similar to a concept developed in 1991 called ‘The Digital Desk’ [link]

MongoDB Transactions With TokuDB's Fractal Tree Indexes Engine

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Interesting new direction of TokuDB pushing their storage engine based on Fractal Tree Indexes to MongoDB:

Running MongoDB with Fractal Tree Indexes (used today in the MySQL storage engine TokuDB) is fully transactional. Each statement is transactional. If an update is to modify ten rows, then either all rows are modified, or none are. Queries use multi-versioning concurrency control (MVCC) to return results from a snapshot of the system, thereby not being affected by write operations that may happen concurrently.

Original title and link: MongoDB Transactions With TokuDB’s Fractal Tree Indexes Engine (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)

futurejournalismproject: Making Data Sausage New York Times Senior Software Architect Jacob Harris takes a deep look at how to work with data to tell a narrative. He does so by going step by step through his own analysis of US food safety from data sets of food recalls taken from the US Department of Agriculture. While Harris defines himself as a computer scientist, rather than a journalist, he says the reporting process for each is much the same once he starts looking at data. Specifically, as he sets out he works on: Gathering the data we need to tell a story “Interviewing” the data to find its strengths and limitations Finding the specific narratives in the data we want to share and can support with data It’s this second step, the interviewing, I find most interesting. I also like his word choice. It’s much less marshal than the “interrogation” many use to describe the process. Before jumping into his case study, Harris writes: What do I mean by narrative? Narrative is what makes it data journalism. We could just put a large PDF or SQL dump online, but that’s not very informative to anyone but experts. The art is finding the stories in the data the way a sculptor finds a statue in the marble. For the data-curious, give Harris a read. He moves from high level strategizing and understanding of how to analyze data, including what type of questions to ask of it during “the interview,” to getting down and dirty with Ruby on Rails examples of how to actually work with the data once scraped. In other words, there’s fun for the whole family here. Related: Our interview with Bitly data chief Hilary Mason about her methodology for working with data. Somewhat Related: Alex Williams, Techcrunch. Data Is Not Killing Creativity, It’s Just Changing How We Tell Stories. Image: Sausage Making via Wikimedia Commons. The art if finding stories in data!
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Making Data Sausage

New York Times Senior Software Architect Jacob Harris takes a deep look at how to work with data to tell a narrative. He does so by going step by step through his own analysis of US food safety from data sets of food recalls taken from the US Department of Agriculture.

While Harris defines himself as a computer scientist, rather than a journalist, he says the reporting process for each is much the same once he starts looking at data. Specifically, as he sets out he works on:

  1. Gathering the data we need to tell a story
  2. “Interviewing” the data to find its strengths and limitations
  3. Finding the specific narratives in the data we want to share and can support with data

It’s this second step, the interviewing, I find most interesting. I also like his word choice. It’s much less marshal than the “interrogation” many use to describe the process.

Before jumping into his case study, Harris writes:

What do I mean by narrative? Narrative is what makes it data journalism. We could just put a large PDF or SQL dump online, but that’s not very informative to anyone but experts. The art is finding the stories in the data the way a sculptor finds a statue in the marble.

For the data-curious, give Harris a read. He moves from high level strategizing and understanding of how to analyze data, including what type of questions to ask of it during “the interview,” to getting down and dirty with Ruby on Rails examples of how to actually work with the data once scraped. In other words, there’s fun for the whole family here.

Related: Our interview with Bitly data chief Hilary Mason about her methodology for working with data.

Somewhat Related: Alex Williams, Techcrunch. Data Is Not Killing Creativity, It’s Just Changing How We Tell Stories.

Image: Sausage Making via Wikimedia Commons.

The art if finding stories in data!

A new report out of Accenture documents how more organizations are relying on global networks of outside contractors, outsourcing partners, vendors, strategic partners and other “nontraditional workers.” The report, prepared by Yaarit Silverstone, Catherine Farley and Susan M. Cantrell, all of Accenture, says this growing shift to outside talent means “the end of work as we know it.

Tomorrow’s workforce will come from the cloud, study predicts | SmartPlanet

Totally. Maybe work can become useful again:)

Outsourcing to to cloud is the future!

(via futuristgerd)

futurejournalismproject: Blogs Rule, But Brands are Ignoring Them Technorati’s Media’s 2013 Digital Influencer Report is an important read for brand and marketing folk. In it, the authors write that consumers trust blogs more than social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest. The disconnect here is that brand marketers spend more time and resources on social networks, and vastly more dollars on display advertising, search and video. Via Technorati (PDF): Currently, the bulk of brands’ overall digital spend goes to display advertising, search and video, with spending on social, including influencer outreach, making up only 10 percent of their total digital spend. Within their social budget, more than half goes to Facebook, followed by YouTube and Twitter, with the remaining 11 percent of their social spend going to blogs and influencers… …In short, where brands are spending is not fully aligned with how and where consumers are seeing value and being influenced. This has much to do with an essential hurdle faced by most content creators: a lack of metrics and the fragmentation that leads to their complexity as a purchasable medium. The report’s authors argue that brands need to refocus their earned media strategies on direct engagement with influencers. Image: Detail of digital and social budgets from Technorati’s 2013 Digital Influencer Report (PDF).
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Blogs Rule, But Brands are Ignoring Them

Technorati’s Media’s 2013 Digital Influencer Report is an important read for brand and marketing folk. In it, the authors write that consumers trust blogs more than social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest.

The disconnect here is that brand marketers spend more time and resources on social networks, and vastly more dollars on display advertising, search and video.

Via Technorati (PDF):

Currently, the bulk of brands’ overall digital spend goes to display advertising, search and video, with spending on social, including influencer outreach, making up only 10 percent of their total digital spend. Within their social budget, more than half goes to Facebook, followed by YouTube and Twitter, with the remaining 11 percent of their social spend going to blogs and influencers…

…In short, where brands are spending is not fully aligned with how and where consumers are seeing value and being influenced. This has much to do with an essential hurdle faced by most content creators: a lack of metrics and the fragmentation that leads to their complexity as a purchasable medium.

The report’s authors argue that brands need to refocus their earned media strategies on direct engagement with influencers.

Image: Detail of digital and social budgets from Technorati’s 2013 Digital Influencer Report (PDF).

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