Tag: data

A pretty good piece featuring a ton of data visualization projects that I’ve posted about here on Doobybrain before.

If you’re anything like me, then you might find yourself often interested in knowing what is going on in local and state government but find it incredibly hard to get a good grasp of what is happening because the data and information you need is too hard to find. News sources are often muddling the [...]

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North Korea, a place on Google Maps that has normally been pretty empty in terms of map data, has just recently been filled with road names, city names, and points of interest compiled mostly from user-submitted data on Google’s Map Maker tool. A good way to maybe plan a future trip there? I still really [...]

If you’ve read this site for a while, you’ll know at least this: That I love stats on just about anything. I think I just like knowing random stuff about things and this new app I just came across called Sitegeist definitely fills that void in me. The app looks great because it’s designed by [...]

I mentioned earlier today that Facebook Graph Search looks like it could potentially change the way people use the web. It’s disruptive to normal search engines and for better or worse closed off to other search engine competitors. We know how much data Facebook has on us and until now there was no real useful [...]

I never really had to think about this too much since I was lucky enough to be locked into unlimited data on my mobile and home networks, but it’s true, if companies were really concerned about network congestion they would be getting users to downgrade speeds and essentially limit the amount of new sign-ups. [via]