The Brown Institute for Media Innovation has a call for magic grants for “a small team of graduate students or postgraduates who are expected to demonstrate the relevance and viability of their ideas by implementing a prototype or creating an innovative media product.” The Columbia branch is led by my adviser. Proposal submission deadline is May 3.
Nathan Yau
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Magic Grants from Brown Institute for Media Innovation
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Jeffrey Hammerbacher, Chief Scientist at Cloudera
Jeffrey Hammerbacher, Chief Scientist at Cloudera talks about big data in Charlie Rose interview.
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Chartspotting: Coffee graph menu
FlowingData reader Amir sent this along. In lieu of a list of coffee…
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Gun deaths since Sandy Hook
The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was horrible, but there have been…
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Metrico, an infographic puzzle game
Metrico is a puzzle action game for PlayStation Vita that centers around charts…
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Yelp Dataset Challenge
Yelp is putting up over 200,000 reviews and offering ten $5,000 awards for students who want to make use of their data.
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Forecast: A weather site that’s easier to read →
When you go to one of the major sites to look up the…
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Data Scientist opening at NYT
There’s a data scientist opening at The New York Times, probably to fill the gap left by DataKind founder Jake Porway. [via]
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How to become a password cracker in a day
Deputy editor at Ars Technica Nate Anderson was curious if he could learn…
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Watching Drones Drop
Pitch Interactive’s drone visualization spread across the Web yesterday. Wes Grubbs, the founder of the group, talked about the data on HuffPost Live.
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NLTK Book
The Natural Language Toolkit is a Python library that is commonly used to extract data from text. There’s a free, online-accessible book to learn how to use it.
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March Madness fan map
Along the same lines as their NFL fan maps, Facebook had a closer…
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Ph.D. students rethink the tenure track
Ph.D. students rethink the tenure track. The traditional approach is to get your degree and then look for a professor job. That’s changing though, and more people leave academia after they graduate. I think when I first got into graduate school academia was top on my list, too, but after working with my adviser and other professors, it didn’t seem like a job I’d enjoy.
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Spatial Memory: Mapping Blank Spots in the Cheeseboard Maze
Mapping Blank Spots in the Cheeseboard Maze. “IST Austria Professor Jozsef Csicsvari together with collaborators has succeeded in uncovering processes in which the formation of spatial memory is manifested in a map representation.”
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Every known drone attack in Pakistan
It’s hard to know the impact of drone attacks as outsiders looking in,…
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Data Points: What it’s like to write a book
As the publication of Data Points nears, I’m excited to hold it in…
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Odds of a perfect NCAA March Madness bracket
Math professor Jeff Bergen explains the odds of picking a perfect bracket.…
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Deleted Slides
Science graphics editor Jonathan Corum of The New York Times is great at distilling complex ideas for a wide audience. He gave a talk at Tapestry a while back. He also recently put up his deleted slides.
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A visualization of pi for high school math students
On Kickstarter: A project that uses a visualization of pi to connect Brooklyn…
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Internet Census
Upon discovering hundreds of thousands open embedded devices on the Internet, an anonymous…