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When Data Visualization Works — And When It Doesn’t – Jim Stikeleather – Harvard Business Review
“Ultimately, data visualization is about communicating an idea that will drive action. Understanding the criteria for information to provide valuable insights and the reasoning behind constructing data visualizations will help you do that with efficiency and impact”
via When Data Visualization Works — And When It Doesn’t – Jim Stikeleather – Harvard Business Review
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Egypt Crowdsources Censorship | Fast Company
“The Egyptian government is now crowdsourcing censorship efforts. A new web page created by the country’s National Telecommunications Registry Agency, allows citizens to report blasphemous websites (Arabic-language links). According to Alix Dunn of tech activism blog The Engine Room, the site is designed to help find pages showing a controversial anti-Islam film.”
UPDATED: Mali rebels fleeing Timbuktu burn library full of ancient manuscripts | World news | guardian.co.uk
UPDATED: See this story by Alex Crawford with Sky News for more details and video.
“Islamist insurgents retreating from the ancient Saharan city of Timbuktu have set fire to a library containing thousands of priceless ancient manuscripts, some dating back to the 13th century, in what the town’s mayor described as a “devastating blow” to world heritage.”
via Mali rebels fleeing Timbuktu burn library full of ancient manuscripts | World news | guardian.co.uk.
NYTimes.com – A Casualty on the Battlefield of Amazon’s Partisan Book Reviews
The following editorial is a great case study of trolls (a fan base in this instance) using the Amazon reviewing system to suppress the popularity of a publication, when in the past the problem has been over inflated reviews. No longer is it only governments and other political groups trying to suppress intellectual freedom.
A Casualty on the Battlefield of Amazon’s Partisan Book Reviews – NYTimes.com
Quotable: “In the biggest, most overt and most successful of these campaigns, a group of Michael Jackson fans used Facebook and Twitter to solicit negative reviews of a new biography of the singer. They bombarded Amazon with dozens of one-star takedowns, succeeded in getting several favorable notices erased and even took credit for Amazon’s briefly removing the book from sale.”
Collection of Links: Big Data
Big data is almost on the cusp of the emerging technology hype cycle according to the Gartner 2012 Hype Cycle and according to Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2012 (PCMAG.com). What is the ‘big’ deal with big data anyways? Below I have posted links to information resources highlighting a range of issues related to big data.
Gartner defines big data as…”the term adopted by the market to describe extreme information management and processing issues which exceed the capability of traditional information technology along one or multiple dimensions to support the use of the information assets. Throughout 2010 and into 2011, big data has focused primarily on the volume issues of extremely large datasets generated from technology practices such as social media, operational technology, Internet logging and streaming sources. A wide array of hardware and software solutions have emerged to address the partial issue of volume.”
The Data Drive Life by Gary Wolf (April 28, 2010) is a great backgrounder article on how we have come to generate more and more data in our daily lives.
Big Data/Linked Data White Paper from Fujitsu, March 2012
Business Perspective
From Harvard Business Review. The Next Wave of Process Strategy, October 30, 2012 and Big Data Hype (and Reality), October 18, 2012
Significance to Libraries
Data Science: What’s in it for the New Librarian? from Information Space, July 16, 2012
Big data is also about the Internet of Things and Linked Data. Linked Data for Libraries OCLC Video posted August 7, 2012
Defining the “Big” in Big Data by Leslie Johnston at the Library of Congress, May 17, 2012
Importance to Other Industries
Big Data and social media: A match made in heaven? posted October 23, 2012 at the TechRepublic
Big Data is Transforming Healthcare from Wired Science, October 16, 2012
Software
Big Data Meets BI: Beyond The Hype from Information Week, October 30, 2012
Lists some of the other open source software in the big data space (versus Hadoop) Big Data Right Now: Five Trendy Open Source Technologies from TechCrunch, October 27, 2012
Little Bird Takes Flight: Marshall Kirkpatrick Launches His Influence-Finding Startup, Raises $1M | TechCrunch
“Little Bird, a startup that helps PR agencies, marketers, and media companies identify influencers on virtually any topic, is launching in private beta today.” via Little Bird Takes Flight: Marshall Kirkpatrick Launches His Influence-Finding Startup, Raises $1M | TechCrunch.
The article states that “the only exceptions [to LittleBird influencer data] are subjects that are so arcane and specific that there’s no core group of influencers on social media.” I think librarians and information professionals will have more of a role in the future contributing to social media platforms such as LittleBird, such as on more obscure or specific subjects and subjects where our information gathering and analysis skills would be value-added. I can also see this tool being used by librarians in Reference Services or even as a topic of study for a research project.
Stephen’s Lighthouse — Connected Learning Resources and Infographic
iLibrarian » 5 Educational YouTube Channels for Librarians
5 Educational YouTube Channels for Librarians
via iLibrarian » 5 Educational YouTube Channels for Librarians.
I second Mashable! My favourite go to website for tech related information and tech trends to watch for on the horizon.
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