The Environmental Performance Index, Visualized with R
The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks countries on performance indicators for environmental public health and ecosystem vitality. Yale University hosts…
Guns, States, and Death (Illustrated Comments on Aurora)
Surfing the web soon after the July 19th massacre in Colorado yielded two geovisualizations that touched, in part or in…
Tweets Per Day Analysis
This is another awesome tool “Twitter Venn” from Jeff Clerk. This is another awesome tool “Twitter Venn” from Jeff…
Ya Can’t See the Forest Through the Trees
I was talking with a doctor on the train the other day who was complaining about the current state of…
Big Data: Are You Ready for Multimedia Information Systems?
If you take a look at Enterprise Information Systems that are currently in use, you will notice that they are…
Twitter Words Association Analysis
Recently I came across Twitter Spectrum tool from Jeff Clerk. This tool is modified version of News Spectrum tool.Here you…
What Will We Call Big Data in 2015?
It is pretty much agreed now that the “big” in big data is a relative term. If the volumes of…
Rexer Analytics Survey – are data miners too focused on their models?
Rexer Analytics have just released the results of their 2011 survey – the 5th annual one, answered by over 1,300…
Paid, Earned and Owned Are Dead
It’s absolutely perfect timing for this blog post (which I’ve been thinking about for the last month or so), hot…
Big Data: The Coming Sensor Data Driven Productivity Revolution
When it comes to Big Data, we often think of user (human) generated social media data. But sensor (machine) generated…