Category: Design UX

Jawbone uses big data to identify sleep deprived states

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Jawbone Tracked Hundreds Of Thousands Of Up Users To Find The Most Sleep-Deprived States
BY REBECCA GREENFIELD, fastcompany.com

Jawbone anonymized sleep data from Up wearers and discovered some interesting trends about how we as a country snooze. For one, they do it better in Colorado (blame the weed?).

You’d think that peo­ple would have some of their most rest­ful nigh…

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Visualizing the wealth of America by zip code

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

Mapping The Wealth Of U.S. ZIP Codes Shows The Haves Hiding From The Have-Nots
fastcoexist.com

This interactive graphic, which lets you see the economic stats for every ZIP code in the country, shows the emergence of “Super ZIPs”—communities where nearly everyone is wealthy.

The Har­vard philoso­pher Michael Sandel calls it the…

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Infographic shows the health meaning of the color of your pee

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Is Your Pee The Right Color? [Infographic]
By Kelsey D. Atherton, popsci.com

Sev­er­al times a day, human bod­ies release a stream of data about inter­nal health. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, the data comes ana­log, and so isn’t imme­di­ate­ly acces­si­ble as use­ful infor­ma­tion. Now an info­graph­ic from the Cleve­land Clin­ic off…

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Software finds 1 in 4 science papers have suspicious images

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Software Scans Journal Papers, Finds 1 In 4 Have Suspicious Images
By Francie Diep, popsci.com

Ital­ian biol­o­gist Enri­co Bucci orig­i­nal­ly devel­oped his start­up’s soft­ware to make sci­en­tists’ lives eas­i­er. The soft­ware is a search engine that auto­mat­i­cal­ly pulls images from pub­lished sci­en­tif­ic papers. Say you’re study­…

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Snooperscope iPhone night vision lens

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management

Hunt ghosts with Snooperscope smartphone night vision lens
by Tim Hornyak, cnet.com

This magnetic device lets you act like a creepy spy, observe nocturnal wildlife, or see Kinect infrared dots.

Maybe you want to check out what­ev­er it was that just went bump in the night. Or maybe you just want to see things in the dark. Here’…

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Structure sensor turns any iPad into a 3d scanner

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

The 3D Scanner for Your iPad Will Digitize Reality
By Alexander George, popularmechanics.com

Technology

Structure Sensor plugs in to any iPad and makes a detailed 3D image of your surroundings.

First out­fit your iPad with this smooth and appro­pri­ate­ly futuristic-looking appendage. Then point your tablet in any direc­tion an…

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PubPeer, PubLons online peer review sites shake up science publication

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Design UX, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

New wave of online peer review and discussion tools frightens some scientists
Chris Lee, arstechnica.com

Sites like Publons and PubPeer hope to quicken the pace of scientific conversation. PublonsEarlier this year, I wrote a story about a new HIV/Aids detection kit that was under development. Since that time, the same group has published two more pap…

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High end mirror less cameras guide

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management

2013 High-End Mirrorless Camera Comparison Guide
Simon Crisp, gizmag.com

It’s looking increasingly certain that interchangeable lens cameras have got a mirrorless future. In 2013 we’ve seen new models which can rival all but the very best of their mirrored counterparts in terms of features, build, and image quality. In…

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The jobs of the future belong to data science and user experience designers

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

The jobs of the future belong to data scientists and user experience designers
Stacey Higginbotham, gigaom.com

GE and design may not seem to go togeth­er, but as it con­nects its indus­tri­al prod­ucts, med­ical devices and home appli­ances to the inter­net and rethinks its busi­ness for the con­nect­ed age, the com­pa­ny is focus­ing on user inter­faces a…

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Big data can now tell how badly you drive, and if you ride

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata, Sustainable Design

New algorithms can tell if you ride the bus, and how bad you drive
Derrick Harris, gigaom.com

Researchers from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Helsin­ki in Fin­land have devel­oped algo­rithms they say are the best yet for deter­min­ing how mobile phone users are get­ting around town — walk­ing, dri­ving, tak­ing the sub­way or oth­er­wise — by…

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Colossal finds most incredible images

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management

The Eye-Popping Images On Colossal Will Make Art Lovers Of Us All
BY BRYAN LUFKIN, fastcompany.com

Christopher Jobson’s knack for finding the most stunning, share-worthy pictures on the Internet make his site Colossal required browsing for anyone remotely interested in the visual arts.

Between celebri­ty Twit­ter feuds, tele­vised nip slips, …

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Why skilled writers are critical to the knowledge economy

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

The Simplest Way To Know What Everyone’s Doing At Work
BY JANET CHOI, fastcompany.com

In the modern—often remote—workplace, sharing work is essential to an efficient and collaborative team. Writing is the simple, powerful tool that can foster that culture of sharing. Here’s why.

We share so much on our dig­i­tal streams and fee…

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