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Dashboard as an Organizing System
Sun, 2012-09-02 09:27 — julia.koshelevaA thoughtfully designed dashboard is an exceptional tool for keeping pulse on business performance, but a poorly designed conglomerate of charts and tables can be a distraction. The article “3 reasons to hate BI dashboards” by Joe McKendrick posted on the business technology news website ZDNet criticizes the current state of corporate dashboards for being poorly organized, not actionable, and not much more useful than they were 20 years ago even with technological advances.
What Makes Paris Look Like Paris?
Sun, 2012-09-02 02:41 — ajeetaWill Data Analytics Win the Presidential Election?
Sat, 2012-09-01 23:25 — luisThe 2008 presidential election clearly showed how technology (communication via social media) could be used to reach out to large segments of voters, arguably tipping the balance in the Democrat's favor. While technology is once again being used to reach out to the masses in the current election, analytics technologies are increasingly (and quietly) being used to organize prospective donors/voters.
Social Genome
Sat, 2012-09-01 23:15 — bharathDisplaying 'relevant' information about a product is one of the key factors influencing a sale or no-sale in the retail space. Relevant information in today's social media world is not restricted to basic information about the product such as ingredients, specifications, and price but also includes many other information such as the number of 'likes' a product has on Facebook, the number of pins on Pinterest as well as reviews, recommendations and other suggestions by friends on various social networking sites. This way the information becomes personalized for the customer.
Using Data to Optimize Chicago's Public Transit
Sat, 2012-09-01 20:48 — raymonstEverybody is happy at the gay zoo
Sat, 2012-09-01 12:12 — sebarnessOrganizing User Leagal Agreements—Microsoft's New Terms of Service
Fri, 2012-08-31 16:53 — jake.hartnellOn the 27th of August, 2012, Microsoft released its new terms of service agreement. What's interesting about this agreement is that much of it is organized in a question and answer format.
"The Best Book Reviews Money Can Buy" and the problem of description resource reliability
Fri, 2012-08-31 14:34 — ljWhether or not readers recognize it as such, they all use some kind of personal organizing system to determine which books they choose to read (in other words, to add a given resource to the collection of books that will be read). The very vastness of the collection of available books makes it essential to do so. Along with metadata such as genre, author, price, and library availability, a common method of developing organizing principles for this system is to use description resources (recommendations from friends, editorial reviews, online user reviews).
King County Archives now using Pinterest
Wed, 2012-08-29 22:28 — cpphamAn interesting piece of news came up on my feed today about King County Archives using the social media platform Pinterest in order to spread awareness of their historical photos to a wider audience. They established different boards, each with dozens of photos from their archives "ranging from old maps to artwork to images of the 1962 World's Fair". Considering we just discussed archives and the way they approach digitization of their work, I found this to be an interesting convergence of what we covered in class with a contemporary social media platform.
