Tweet analyzer ranks trustworthy Tweets during emergencies

 

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Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net

In “Cred­i­bil­i­ty rank­ing of tweets dur­ing high impact events,” a paper pub­lished in the ACM’s Pro­ceed­ings of the 1st Work­shop on Pri­va­cy and Secu­ri­ty in Online Social Media , two Indraprastha Insti­tute of Infor­ma­tion…

Machine-learning algorithm develops heuristics for trustworthy tweets in time of emergency

Demographics and info-graphics: how to understand America

Infographic: Animated Maps Of America’s Shifting Demographics
By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com

At what rate are Americans coming, going, living, and dying? These animated maps tell a fascinating visual story.

Most of this elec­tion sea­son’s post­mortems have focused on demo­graph­ics, a vague phrase that refers to the chang­ing face of t…

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Car deaths by time of day

Infographic: Showing When People Get Killed In Cars, Using Excel
By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com

John Nelson’s charts and maps on traffic fatalities are a reminder that a good data viz doesn’t always require graphic design chops—or software.

With the abun­dance of data visu­al­iza­tion projects we’ve seen over the last few years, it’s hard…

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Transit apps and commuter happiness

Study: Transit Apps Make Us Happier Commuters
By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com

A study of two crowdsourcing apps suggests that a better digital infrastructure for commuters could improve urban transit overall.

We know that we tend to be hap­pi­est when we’re com­mu­ni­cat­ing with and help­ing those around us. But could th…

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Description: F Train, Manhattan-bound, 17 May ...
Description: F Train, Manhattan-bound, 17 May 2005 9:25am. New York’s subway ridership comprises much of the city’s newspaper readership base. Location: New York (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Big data is making social science truly predictive

Mind reading is possible! – Salon.com
By Kathleen Taylor, salon.com

Advances in neuroimaging suggest telepathy could be on the horizon. It’s time to consider how we’d use it

“If you have some­thing that you don’t want any­one to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the ?rst place.” Eric Schmidt, CE…

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Driving apps reviewed: do black box apps really work?

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Wirecutter picks best laptop

The Best Laptop
Brian Lam, thewirecutter.com

It’s pret­ty clear that the 13-inch Mac­book Air is the best over­all lap­top for most peo­ple, in the minds of many review­ers.

(Last Updat­ed Octo­ber 31st, 2012: Apple released a 13-inch Mac­Book Pro with reti­na dis­play ear­li­er this…

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Facts about guns and mass shootings

Nine facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States
Ezra Klein, washingtonpost.com

When we first collected much of this data, it was after the Aurora, Colo. shootings, and the air was thick with calls to avoid “politicizing” the tragedy. That is code, essentially, for “don’t talk about reforming our gun control laws.”Let’s be…

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Neuroscience of reading with children

The Importance Of Reading With Children
Zoë Triska, huffingtonpost.com

It’s safe to say that I’ve always been a big read­er. I can clear­ly remem­ber the first time I sat and read a full book, when every­thing just clicked. It was mag­i­cal.

I grew into a full on read­ing nerd. When I was around seven, I used to wr…

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Neuromarketing with Affectiva

Life With Mind-Reading Machines
Bianca Bosker, huffingtonpost.com

Smile: Your computer is watching.Affectiva, a nearly 2-year-old startup that grew out of MIT’s Media Lab, is teaching machines to understand what you feel.Affectiva has developed a way for computers to recognize human emotions based on facial cues…

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Turn your iPhone into an action cam with Optrix

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