July 2011
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June 2011
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City of Toronto: Wellbeing Toronto →
monitor neighborhood wellness based on a customizable set of indicators
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Satellites show potential for avalanche mapping →
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“This digital memory sits somewhere between experience and non-experience; it is...”
– booktwo on the location data stored on his iPhone
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WatchJunctions - a Google Earth based map of your social activities (Foursquare, tweets, images, etc)
via Google Earth Blog
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“People in effective systems become interested in data. They put effort and...”
– Cowboys and Pit Crews, Atul Gawande’s 2011 commencement speech at Harvard Medical School. Complex tasks require a willingness to build and work within effective systems. (via dianakimball)
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DC Sidewalk Project →
a project trying to add pedestrian routing information to openstreetmap
“We know very little about self-development. But we do know one thing: People in...”
– Peter Drucker, The Effective Executive
And by holding yourself to high expectations, you make room for others to follow suit. I’ve loved working with Amit and the team at Photojojo this summer, at a place where great expectations are the norm. I want to work with people who make me want to be...
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Asteroid 2011 MD passes through the Earth’s GPS... →
an animation of the asteroid’s path from the asteroid’s perspective
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An Era of Community Cartography →
shriyashriyashriya:
how do we leverage this for a holistic approach to health (transport / planning / environmental / social ) ?
How do you Visualise a Conversation? | Seeing Data →
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“Cats are parasites on the flows of social interaction between living things.
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– via BERG
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London Tubemap - A new angle on the London... →
a more geographically accurate london tube map
“Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum...”
– Adam Gopnick, Life Studies, The New Yorker (via plsj)
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Visual Data Web - Visually Experiencing the Data... →
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Weave (Web-based Analysis and Visualization... →
now open source
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A developer wrote his proposal for me in code
mybestclients:
count = 0;for every time (My Company is served by Your Services){ if (time.isRelatedTo(research) && isWorthwhile(time)) count++;} if (count * avgTimeValue >= 60 minutes) My Company.pay(Your Services); if (count * avgProjectValue >= Proposed Estimate) My Company.pay(Your Services); function isWorthwhile(time){ return time benefits company significantly or time...
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“Ignorance is a marker of somewhere interesting to dig. “Thinking through making”...”
– Matt Webb (via BERG)
i don’t want to stop learning. i don’t want to be around people who’ve stopped learning. it’s lonely. it makes everything harder. and for what? i don’t know. it’s not going to keep you away from failure; it’ll probably just get you...
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Self-Tracker Bill of Rights
I. Users own their data II. Data is portable III. Data is accessible via APIs IV. Data can be shared between self-tracking applications
via Trackify (a meta self-tracking application)
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