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Mapping The Wealth Of U.S. ZIP Codes Shows The Haves Hiding From The Have-Nots
fastcoexist.comThis 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…
The Personal Analytics of My Life
stephenwolfram.comOne day I’m sure everyone will routinely collect all sorts of data about themselves. But because I’ve been interested in data for a very long time, I started doing this long ago. I actually assumed lots of other people were doing it too…
another web 2.0 instant social networking market research tool
Good article on ways that companies such as JetBlue can use text analytics to analyze thousands of emails for business intelligence
How Text Analytics Drive Customer Insight – Business_intelligence – Analytics – Informationweek.
via www.economist.com Interesting article in the Economist that describes a new kind of scientist, the data scientist, who can monitor human behavior at the population level thru their “data exhaust” using business intelligence technologies. Unusual correlations between for example the likelihood of catching a flight and those people who ordered vegetarian meals are now found. LIkewise data visualization is emerging as a creative field merging design, storytelling and science and developed by companies such as IBM using emerging tools such as Swivel.
via www.gartner.com
This rather exciting conference coming up in March covers the frontiers of digital business, enterprise 2.0, cloud computing, collective intelligence and other stimulating subjects.
A nice visualization tool, online from IBM as part of their Cognos unit, that taps Census and other data. However presented in a bit of a clunky UI…
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