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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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Raw: advanced data visualization via cut and paste

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

New tool lets you visualize just about anything in 5 minutes (maybe less)
Derrick Harris, gigaom.com

There’s a new web tool called Raw that makes it real­ly easy to do some advanced visu­al­iza­tions on data in just a few min­utes. (Hat tip to Nathan Yau of Flow­ing­Da­ta for point­ing it out.) The way it works is pret­ty sim­ple: You paste data…

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