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Adobe: There Will Be No Creative Suite 7

Tue, 07 May 2013 07:14:06 +0530

Adobe: There Will Be No Creative Suite 7:

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

Sun, 05 May 2013 14:00:04 +0530

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

Sat, 04 May 2013 13:14:31 +0530

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...

Thu, 02 May 2013 08:57:19 +0530

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]

fastcodesign: What’s The Secret To Great Infographics? Kim...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:09:50 +0530

fastcodesign:

What’s The Secret To Great Infographics?

Kim Reese, co-founder of Periscopic, on the secret to good data-viz.

Big Data Is...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:55:12 +0530

nosql:

I’ve seen this tweet from Tim O’Reilly quoting George Dyson on Keen’s post:

Big data is what happened when the cost of keeping information became less than the cost of throwing it away.

Smart. So smart. And true.

Original title and link: Big Data Is… (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)

Cool definition

MongoDB Transactions With TokuDB's Fractal Tree Indexes Engine

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 05:55:38 +0530

MongoDB Transactions With TokuDB's Fractal Tree Indexes Engine:

nosql:

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...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 05:54:05 +0530

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!

"A new report out of Accenture documents how more organizations are relying on global networks of..."

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:57:02 +0530

“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!

futurejournalismproject: Blogs Rule, But Brands are Ignoring...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:08:14 +0530

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).

Surya's Tumblr: We don’t need more data scientists — just make big data easier to use

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:49:02 +0530

Surya's Tumblr: We don’t need more data scientists — just make big data easier to use:

suryaray:

#SuryaRay #Surya Virtually any article today about big data inevitably turns to the notion that the country is suffering from a crucial shortage of data scientists. A much-talked-about 2011 McKinsey & Co. survey pointed out that many organizations lack both the skilled personnel needed to mine…

Great article!

Software recognizes patterns to predict future

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 08:42:05 +0530

Software recognizes patterns to predict future:

obscureref:

Researchers have created software that predicts when and where disease outbreaks might occur based on two decades of New York Times articles and other online data. The research comes from Microsoft and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

The system could someday help aid organizations and others be more proactive in tackling disease outbreaks or other problems, says Eric Horvitz, distinguished scientist and codirector at Microsoft Research

The system is actually cooler than the above quote makes it sound. It actually compares recent news stories to the software’s archive to see what events typically follow after.

The example given is involves Angola. Reports of drought in 2006 and severe storms in 2007 fit into a pattern that suggested a cholera epidemic would follow. A few weeks after the storms, cholera broke out.

In similar tests involving forecasts of disease, violence, and a significant numbers of deaths, the system’s warnings were correct between 70-90% of the time.

I swear that we’re getting closer to something like Asimov’s “psychohistory” all the time.

(Source: Mashable)

Hadoop at Yahoo!: 2013 Update

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:36:11 +0530

Hadoop at Yahoo!: 2013 Update:

nosql:

A chart is worth quite a few words:

Interesting bits:

Yahoo’s Hadoop cluster seems to have stabilized at around 40,000 nodes

the amount of data stored in HDFS grew to over 350PB.

for the last couple of years, Yahoo’s Hadoop cluster added around 50PB on top of existing data

14mil. jobs run on YARN

an average of 80,000 jobs/cluster/day

Original title and link: Hadoop at Yahoo!: 2013 Update (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)

Revisiting JavaScript Objects

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 08:51:36 +0530

Revisiting JavaScript Objects:

sourcetocode:

One of the main focuses of ES5, has been to improve the JavaScript’s object structure and manipulation. The features it introduced do make lot of sense, especially if you’re working with large and complex applications. Also, ES5 features can be used in Node.js based projects without any issue. So this article revisits the ES5 object features and shows how they can be useful in real-life scenarios.

Modular web applications with Node.js and Express

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 17:39:41 +0530

Modular web applications with Node.js and Express:

tjholowaychuk:

This short screencast describes how you can use Express’ app mounting feature to create modular self-contained applications to construct your product.

NPM tricks

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:21:03 +0530

NPM tricks:

sourcetocode:

A little list of tips and tricks related to NPM you might not know about, that come from Guillermo Rauch’ s experience working with it daily, in bothproduction and development.

What should everyone know about big data?

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:31:14 +0530

What should everyone know about big data? :

Nice summary answer by Amar Prabhu

emergentfutures: Will Big Data Destroy the Stock Market? When...

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:19:26 +0530

emergentfutures:

Will Big Data Destroy the Stock Market?

When you buy a stock, you place a bet on how that stock will perform in the future. In a perfect world, where market insiders and manipulators are removed from the equation, the market is a terrific tool for determining the true value of companies being invested in.

But what happens when the volume of data used to make decisions increases 100 million times, and trading volumes increase 100 million times, and trades can be transacted over 100 million times a second?

Full Story: The Futurist

CSS Ratiocinator

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:35:48 +0530

CSS Ratiocinator:

The CSS Ratiocinator automatically refactors your CSS and generates a new stylesheet for your site. It works by examining your site’s live DOM in the browser and reverse engineering a new, more elegant definition that captures styles down to the pixel.

Strong Opinions @marksbirch: The Question of Scale

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:41:22 +0530

Strong Opinions @marksbirch: The Question of Scale:

The team is awesome and the product is great, we are just not sure it can scale

…an early stage investor that cites scale as the issue either:

Does not understand the startup’s business,

Does not have a good reason and is at a loss for words,

Does not wish to divulge real reason for passing,

Does not understand the difference between tractions and scale, or

Does not have a clue.