Quand la data révolutionne l'information
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Sudhir Venkatesh et le langage universel de la donnée
Recensé : Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Off the Books : The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor , Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press, 2006. Ce compte rendu est une version modifiée d’un précédent compte rendu publié dans le n°4, vol. 49 de la Revue Française de Sociologie . Il est possible de consulter cette version originale à partir du portail CAIRN . L’auteur tient à remercier le comité de la Revue Française de Sociologie pour l’autorisation qui lui a été accordée de reprendre ce texte. Sudhir Venkatesh, sociologue à l’université Columbia, spécialiste du ghetto noir américain, est aujourd’hui l’un des sociologues les plus en vue aux États-Unis. Il a connu ses premiers moments de célébrité académique en offrant aux auteurs du bestseller Freakonomics le matériau nécessaire à la rédaction du chapitre « Pourquoi les dealers vivent-ils encore chez leur maman ?Journalist and designer David McCandless gave an inspiring TED talk last month, just posted online last week. In it, he shows off some of his favorite visualizations of data and explains why visualization is increasingly vital, the more information we as media consumers are exposed to. He says, “It feels like we’re all suffering from information overload, or data glut. And the good news is there might be an easy solution to that, and that’s using our eyes more.
“Data Is the New Soil” - CJR
Filed under: All Infographics , Internet Infographics | 11 Comments » Just how massive is Google (in real terms) you ask? More specifically, how many pages are in its index? That is the question this aesthetically pleasing infographic attempts to answer. Even though the precise number of pages in Google’s index is a closely-guarded secret, this graphic relies on math to make an educated guess at the exact number.
Google le Mastodonte
Facebook recently announced that the site now has 150 million mobile users worldwide. Much of this has to do with the rapid growth of app usage, specifically on smartphones.Perhaps not surprisingly, social networking apps are the the fastest growing category of all apps, with download rates increasing by 240% in the last year. Of these, Facebook apps are tend to be the most popular; in fact, Facebook is the number one app across most mobile operating systems. We took a look at the rise of Facebook mobile, and compiled a number of the most interesting facts and figures in the above graphic.
La croissance de Facebook sur le mobile
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The World of Data
Bill Zeller, a PhD student at Princeton, sent me the link to his project "graph your inbox", that is an attempt to visualize the "data" in your Gmail account. Seems to me that it acts as a sophisticated "search my mail" engine. The most interesting part is the ability to click on a point or a bar in one of the charts, and have the corresponding emails show up in the preview panel. This interactive ability is also available in the modern commercial graphing packages, and they are extremely useful for data exploration. Technically, this is a compelling achievement.