Ryan Swanstrom

Tag: data

  • New York City Foursquare Data Video

    Blake Shaw, a data scientist at Foursquare, gave a great talk at Datagotham. The visualization of New York City check-ins, at the beginning of the video, is simply amazing. It is worth watching the video just for that. However, after seeing that great visualization, you will be persuaded to watch the rest of the video.…

  • DataGotham Live Stream

    Data Gotham, the New York City Data Science Conference, is live streaming the presentations today. Things are already underway, so you should be able to go to the site and start watching.

  • Strata Data in Motion Conference

    A while back, Strata hosted a web conference titled Data in Motion. The slides and audio are now available online. The conference is focused on unique applications of data used for movement. Examples are: trains, aerospace, and even car racing. The first talk on formula one car racing was fascinating. I had never thought about…

  • Free Textbook: Mining of Massive Datasets

    A few professors from Stanford University have released version 1.1 of their textbook, Mining of Massive Datasets. The book has been created from materials used for a couple of Stanford computer science classes including large-scale data-mining and web mining. The book looks excellent and really focuses on the analysis of data at a large scale.…

  • Social Media and The Olympics Infographic

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  • The Data Stack: A Structured Approach

    The Data Stack: A Structured ApproachThis is great post about the data stack at Factual.

  • Data Jujitsu Report

    O’Reilly and Data Scientist DJ Patil just released a new free report titled, Data Jujitsu: The Art of Turning Data Into Product. If you are interested in building data products, the report is excellent and definitely worth your time. What does the report cover? The report provides a definition for a data product. It then…

  • Visually becomes a Social Network

    Visual.ly recently announced the transition to a social network for data visualizations. Visual.ly aims to be the site for infographic designers. The site now has better profiles, an activity timeline, and more metrics about each infographic plus the ability to follow users. The new features are in preparation for a marketplace to be launched later…

  • Resistance to Making Decisions based upon Data

    It is no surprise that I enjoy talking about data science and using data to make better decisions. Unfortunately, everyone is not as excited about data as I am. I occasionally face some resistance. One of the most common arguments goes something like this: Why would I put in the extra work to find data…

  • School Of Data

    School of Data is new site aimed at teaching people how to collect, process, analyze, and visualize data. The goal is to produce data courses and award certifications. Most of the content will be focused around the online handbook, Data Wrangling Handbook. The handbook is open source and hosted at github. Currently the course materials…

  • The Beauty of Data Visualization – Ted Talk

    In this 2010 Ted Talk, David McCandless provides a great example of transforming data into a story. Here are some of the data topics covered. Billion dollar-o-gram What is money spent on? Global media panic (SARS, Swine flu, asteroids, killer wasps, …), pay attention to the gap What country has the most soldiers (per population)?…

  • Infographic With Some Data On Pinterest

    My favorite part of the infographic is the demographics portion. Notice the gender, age, income, and education of the users. Browse more infographics. Pinterest Data You can’t ignore