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Visual Data Web - Visually Experiencing the Data Web
Workshop in 2012 After the success of the first German workshop on Interaction and Visualization in the Data Web (IVDW 2011) , we will organize a follow-up event at this year's INFORMATIK conference in Braunschweig. The main focus will be on visual interaction with social and semantic data. Further emphasis will be on provenance and transparency when interacting with Web data.
Gulf of Mexico Data Atlas
Description The study area encompasses Gulf of Mexico coastal counties of the USA, as defined by the Federal Coastal Zone Management Act, and Mexican municipal districts bordering on Gulf of Mexico waters.
With Big Data Comes Big Responsibilities - Technology Review
Double trouble: Researchers says big data sets can reveal unintended, questionable insights, especially when combined, such as with the recent blend of information from Spotify and Facebook. Huge data sets are a powerful new tool for researchers, but a new paper says it's easy to be overconfident about what can be learned from them. The reams of data that many modern businesses collect—dubbed "big data"—can provide powerful insights. It is the key to Netflix's recommendation engines, Facebook's social ads, and even Amazon's methods for speeding up the new Web browser , Silk, which comes with its new Fire tablet.
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Big data: Drowning in numbers | The Economist
The Web, one huge database ... | Linked Data Research Centre
In an attempt to reaching out to the Web developers (called 'Hacker Joe', here ;) I've compiled a screen-cast on how one can understand the Web as a huge database . The screen-cast starts out with a bit of explanation of some essentials, however, the bigger part of it is dedicated to two hands-on examples: first we query and use data from DBPedia (the linked data version of Wikipedia) and then we look into a heavily distributed linked data form, that is, using a FOAF profile we again query and use data from there. Note that the accompanying slides are available as well via slideshare . In case you want to test the queries used in the screen-cast along with the endpoints, here you are ...
WHEN the Sloan Digital Sky Survey started work in 2000, its telescope in New Mexico collected more data in its first few weeks than had been amassed in the entire history of astronomy. Now, a decade later, its archive contains a whopping 140 terabytes of information. A successor, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, due to come on stream in Chile in 2016, will acquire that quantity of data every five days. Such astronomical amounts of information can be found closer to Earth too.
