Category: Design UX

Big data landscape v 3.0 – Matt Turck (FirstMark)

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Linguistic Search

  Big data landscape v 3.0 - Matt Turck (FirstMark).

Hate Commuting? Handy Map Shows Jobs Close To Where You Live | Co.Design | business + design

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital Health, Information Visualization

  Hate Commuting? Handy Map Shows Jobs Close To Where You Live | Co.Design | business + design.

Data Informed’s Map of University Programs in Big Data Analytics

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy, Sustainable Design

  Data Informed's Map of University Programs in Big Data Analytics.

The cloud-fueled disruption of business analytics is coming — Tech News and Analysis

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

  The cloud-fueled disruption of business analytics is coming — Tech News and Analysis.

Global international migration flows | Wittgenstein Centre

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Sustainable Design

  Global international migration flows | Wittgenstein Centre.

Deathwatch : The New Yorker

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital Health

  Deathwatch : The New Yorker.

This Simple Data-Scraping Tool Could Change How Apps Are Made | Wired Design | Wired.com

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Metadata Masterdata

  This Simple Data-Scraping Tool Could Change How Apps Are Made | Wired Design | Wired.com.

BioBeats app generates custom music from your heartrate (Wired UK)

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Health Informatics

  BioBeats app creates generates custom music from your heartrate (Wired UK).

Best In-Ear Headphones Under $30 | The Wirecutter

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  Best In-Ear Headphones Under $30 | The Wirecutter.

Visualizing the level of wifi and cellular radiation we bathe in each day

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

Images Show How Much Cell Phone Radiation We Bathe in Every Day Ross Brooks, inhabitat.com Nickolay Lamm has already made the invisible visible with a project that showed what Wi-Fi would look like if we could see it, but for his latest series of images, the artist has turned his attention to cell phones. Cell … Continue reading Visualizing the level of wifi and cellular radiation we bathe in each day

GE consolidates all kitchen appliances into sleek, Eco friendly block of metal

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

GE’s Ingenious Idea for Simplifying Every Gadget in Your Kitchen Joseph Flaherty, wired.com EcoSwitch, a modular kitchen kit, could replace half a dozen gadgets. http://flip.it/41vs7 Related articles GE's Ingenious Idea for Simplifying Every Gadget in Your Kitchen (wired.com) GE's Ingenious Idea for Simplifying Every Gadget in Your Kitchen (industrialextractor.wordpress.com) Cookscape Offer 10 Years Warranty For … Continue reading GE consolidates all kitchen appliances into sleek, Eco friendly block of metal

Changing the IT department from gatekeepers to curators

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital Health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy

The IT Department Is Dead. Long Live the IT Department Marcus Wohlsen, wired.com In the brave new world imagined by four Silicon Valley startups — Evernote, Box, GitHub, and Asana — the role of IT is changing. Instead of the people who say no, they will be the people who say yes. http://flip.it/I1CvM Related articles … Continue reading Changing the IT department from gatekeepers to curators

MIT Media Lab site lets anyone visualize government data

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

New MIT Media Lab Tool Lets Anyone Visualize Unwieldy Government Data fastcodesign.com Innovation By Design DataViva, a project developed in part by Media Lab professor César Hidalgo, aims to make a wide swath of government economic data usable with a series of visualization apps. In the four years since the U.S. gov­ern­ment… http://flip.it/E0nsK Related articles … Continue reading MIT Media Lab site lets anyone visualize government data

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 … Continue reading Jawbone uses big data to identify sleep deprived states

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… http://flip.it/lf9p8 Related articles Mapping … Continue reading Visualizing the wealth of America by zip code

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… http://flip.it/IfZGH Related articles Is Your Pee The Right … Continue reading Infographic shows the health meaning of the color of your pee

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… http://flip.it/kf1lf

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 … Continue reading Snooperscope iPhone night vision lens

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… http://flip.it/d6HvI Related articles Structure Sensor. A … Continue reading Structure sensor turns any iPad into a 3d scanner

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 … Continue reading PubPeer, PubLons online peer review sites shake up science publication

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… http://flip.it/YYHRA Related articles Canon launches Interchangeable … Continue reading High end mirror less cameras guide

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

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… http://flip.it/hxozG … Continue reading Big data can now tell how badly you drive, and if you ride