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link Quattroshapes: A Global Polygon Gazetteer from Foursquare

this was a good talk at foss4g-na, too

6 days ago

June 12, 2013
quattroshapes polygons gis neighborhoods data foursquare
link re3data.org launched

The re3data.org registry allows the easy identification of appropriate research data repositories, both for data producers and users. The registry covers research data repositories from all academic disciplines. Information icons display the principal attributes of a repository, allowing users to identify the functionalities and qualities of a data repository. These attributes can be used for multi-faceted searches, for instance to find a repository for geoscience data using a Creative Commons licence.

2 weeks ago

June 1, 2013
research data repository data
link MAAS API

REST api for the REMS weather data (CSIC-INTA) collected by the Curiosity Rover

3 weeks ago

May 25, 2013
mars curiosity api data weather
quote
There’s no bad data, only bad uses of data
— Big Data and a Renewed Debate Over Privacy - NYTimes.com (via infoneer-pulse)

2 months ago

March 24, 2013
data big data privacy
reblogged via infoneer-pulse
quote
Data inherently has all of the foibles of being human. Data is not a magic force in society; it’s an extension of us.
— Mark Hansen (via stoweboyd)

(Source: The New York Times)

3 months ago

March 2, 2013
data
reblogged via notational
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It is easier to get Ptolomy’s maps from 15th century than it is to get a map 10 years old.
— You would have thought that “born digital” data would be better preserved, but the answer is no. Archiving isn’t just backups, it’s far more than that. If effort isn’t made at the time to archive the results, we have and will lose that data. The CODATA Mission: Preserving Scientific Data for the Future - Spellbound Blog (via chrischelberg)

3 months ago

March 1, 2013
data archives maps internet
reblogged via infoneer-pulse
photo WELD: Web-Enabled Landsat Data that’s an interesting interface, usgs.

WELD: Web-Enabled Landsat Data

that’s an interesting interface, usgs.

7 months ago

November 10, 2012
landsat data interface maps
photo TERN Data Discovery Portal - Australian ecology data 

TERN Data Discovery Portal - Australian ecology data 

7 months ago

November 10, 2012
australia data ecology
video

Fifty Degrees North, Four Degrees West (Peter Larsen) - music from microbes where chords are mapped to environmental conditions and scale is mapped to microbial concentrations (from research in the western English Channel)

via Tooth and Claw

the same population would sound different in the key of sunlight than in the key of nitrogen

8 months ago

October 4, 2012
music microbes science data patterns
link Geoscience Data Journal

open access (creative commons) platform for publishing peer-reviewed (or at least reviewable) data

9 months ago

September 5, 2012
data journal