Monthly Archives: October 2013

In the nature of Halloween, I wanted to look into some of the statistics behind the holiday.  Halloween has very distinct and measurable ways in which to quantify the spending and revenues brought in by candy makers and costume sellers.  … Continue reading →

According to PCMAG.com, the term “cloud computing” simply “means storing and accessing data and programs over the Internet instead of your computer’s hard drive”. Changes to computer thinking – Stephen Fry explains cloud computing: The increasing quantity of data requires us … Continue reading →

Timescape is a new platform that allows users to visualize data by telling a story through a map. Users can shift though information on the map while also seeing events near that location and how they relate to each other.  … Continue reading →

Are most people visual learner?  (Image from http://store.informationisbeautiful.net/) With increasing availability of big data, we often ask ourselves “how to effectively analyze and present huge quantity of information to the general public”. One solution data scientists came up with is data … Continue reading →

Not informative in the least – but Happy Halloween, y’all:

If you could take a shortcut to make yourself better at something, would you? If the shortcut had potentially unknown side effects, would that affect your decision? For some people, apparently the answers are take the shortcut, and screw the … Continue reading →

Someone linked me to this page a few days ago, and I found it pretty relevant to our discussions of networking: Cisco’s May 2013 Visual Networking Index Forecast and Methodology for 2012-2017 is a document detailing the upcoming expansion of visual networking … Continue reading →

There is a campaign going on right now in support of the development of robots that teach children the fundamentals of computer programming. There robots are meant for kids as young as five years old and teach them the basic … Continue reading →