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Ever wondered what would happen if we put amazing designers and phenomenal programmers together for a weekend to work on the best data APIs?  That’s right. Incredible interactive visualizations!

Welcome to data in sight: making the transparent visual, a hands-on data visualization competition held June 24th through 26th, 2011, at the Adobe Systems, Inc. offices in San Francisco’s SoMa District.

To inspire you, we’re flying in some of the best interaction designers in the world to speak.  Check their portfolios:

  • Benjamin Wiederkehr, Director of Interactive Things, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Thomas Castro, LUST, The Hague, The Netherlands
  • Joris Maltha, Catalogtree, Arnheim, The Netherlands

You can also play with kick ass libraries and tools like:

We’re excited to see what you create.  Please blow our minds.

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Who should come? Open to coders, programmers, developers, designers, scientists, members of the media—anyone who believes that data is divine and has ideas for bringing it to life.

Competition details: The competition will be using open data. Data sets will be provided. Do you have an interesting data set of your own you’d like to contribute? As long as it is open, you can add it to the mix! For more details see the data page. Code produced during the competition will be open source.

 

The sort of thing we should be doing/partnering on...

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Tue, 19 Apr 2011 03:39:00 -0700 Narrative Science http://mediascience.posterous.com/narrative-science http://mediascience.posterous.com/narrative-science
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Tue, 22 Mar 2011 05:16:00 -0700 david mccandless http://mediascience.posterous.com/david-mccandless http://mediascience.posterous.com/david-mccandless
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Tue, 22 Mar 2011 05:11:00 -0700 Ask Questions of Your Data Like Never Before | Tableau Software http://mediascience.posterous.com/ask-questions-of-your-data-like-never-before http://mediascience.posterous.com/ask-questions-of-your-data-like-never-before
Visual Analysis Software for data

See relationships, find patterns and identify outliers.

  • Convert numbers into multi-dimensional visualizations.
  • Look at unlimited factors simultaneously.
 
  • Add one factor at a time to understand its effects.
  • Find answers using the power of information visualization.

This looks interesting!!!!

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Tue, 15 Mar 2011 02:42:00 -0700 MediaPost Publications Truth In Advertising? 03/08/2011 http://mediascience.posterous.com/mediapost-publications-truth-in-advertising-0 http://mediascience.posterous.com/mediapost-publications-truth-in-advertising-0

Do you have strong opinions and inside knowledge about the topic of this article -- and do you want to share your insights, observations and points of view regularly with the readers of MediaPost? To be considered as a MediaPost contributing writer, please send pertinent info about your credentials, plus several column ideas and one example of your writing on the topic, to pfine@mediapost.com. Please see our editorial guidelines here first.

'In an industry full of data, we lack significant insights' - more insight to the pain felt by marketers

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Tue, 15 Mar 2011 01:51:00 -0700 IBM Data Analysis – A smarter way to analyse and use information - Signs of Smart - United Kingdom http://mediascience.posterous.com/ibm-data-analysis-a-smarter-way-to-analyse-an http://mediascience.posterous.com/ibm-data-analysis-a-smarter-way-to-analyse-an

Data analysis and information used to be a river, flowing in one predictable direction with a visible source. No more.

Today, it's a roiling ocean of data, constantly expanding its shores. Experts predict that in just four years from now, the amount of digital information in the world will double every 11 hours. It can be a daunting task for any enterprise to sift through and undertake massive data analysis, extracting information and transforming it into actionable knowledge. But action without data analysis is just guessing.

The globally integrated enterprise needs something more powerful. Today's information management and data analysis tools offer situational awareness and predictive abilities. This "new intelligence" combines human cognition with computational power, shifting the agenda from "sense and respond" to situational awareness and something very much like prediction.

New intelligence gives you more than a window into your current operations. It provides a likely view of what is just around the corner and even further down the road. Analytics and reporting tools slice and dice data, crystallising trends, patterns and anomalies that yield invaluable business insights to help you drive smarter decision-making.

Can you spot key market patterns? Can you trust your information? Can you make the right calls to get where you need to go, and get these ahead of your competitors? New intelligence data analysis helps you know what you know- and what you don't.

Smarter Intelligence

Fifteen petabytes of data are created everyday. What if we could turn all of that data, videos, pictures, text, blogs, market movements and transactions into smarter information for better decisions? Watch the video to find how we can.

Data Anthem: Analysing data to make the world work better

Understanding data patterns is important to industries like energy, transportation and healthcare. And the more we understand, the more answers we find. That’s why data management and analysis is already helping to lower energy costs, ease traffic and detect diseases faster, all over the world. View the Data Anthem video to learn more.

Watch the video.

Watch the video.

Speed to insight and speed to impact. 1 in 3 business leaders frequently make critical decisions without the information they need. 1 in 2 don't have access to the information across their organisation needed to do their jobs. 4 in 5 business leaders see information as a source of competitive advantage. Traditional approach: Instinct and intuition; Corrective; Years, months, week; Human insight; Decision support; Efficient. New approach: Fact-driven; Directive; Hours, minutes, seconds; Applied semantics; Action support; Optimised.

Smarter Intelligence for your organisation

On 1 December 2009, IBM launched the London Analytics Centre, which joins others in New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Beijing and Washington D.C. IBM's aim is to help businesses have an insight into all their information to unlock its business value. Treating information in new and innovative ways can help companies change the way they work together.

Watch the video to learn more about IBM's Business Analytics & Optimisation solutions

Watch the video

IBM Analytic Solution Centre Network, 1 Berlin, 2 Tokyo, 3 Beijing, 4 New York, 5 London, 6 Washington D.C., IBM Analytic Solution Centres provide clients with a network of global expertise in software engineering, business consulting and advanced research to adress the emerging market of advanced analytics capabilities needed to drive improved organisational decision making.

Data Analysis and Predictions for Smarter Healthcare Decisions. Watch the video.

Tiny data generators

Over a thousand pieces of unique information
per second

With premature babies, even the slightest variation in biomedical readings such as heart rate can signal a turn for the worse. And such changes can be detected up to 24 hours in advance.

IBM and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology embarked on a first-of-a-kind research project to help doctors detect these subtle changes. The project will use advanced stream computing software that ingests a constant stream of biomedical data, such as temperature and respiration, along with environmental data gathered from advanced sensors and more traditional monitoring equipment on and around the babies.

 

Keeping drugs and vaccines fresh

Together with IBM and its partner Infratab, DHL (US), a unit of Deutsche Post World Net, developed an advanced temperature tracking solution that combines sophisticated sensing and RFID technology to enable realtime monitoring of temperature-sensitive shipments while in transit.

Predicting changes in the tiniest patients

IBM's breakthrough "stream computing" software helps doctors at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (US) detect subtle changes in the condition of critically ill premature babies.

Monitoring and forecasting changes in our waterways

The Beacon Institute (US) and IBM have created the first technology-based monitoring and forecasting network for a major American river and estuary. The River and Estuary Observatory Network (REON) will allow for minute-to-minute monitoring of New York's Hudson River via technology distributed throughout the 315-mile river.

Stream computing automates market decision-making

TD Bank Financial Group (US) is using IBM stream computing software systems utilising the IBM Blue Gene Supercomputer, in a first-of-a-kind project to support financial services companies as they capitalise on up-to-the-minute changing market conditions.

Smarter Science. Read how the World Community Grid is making pioneering humanitarian research affordable. Download the pdf (857 KB)

How IBM can help

Read how IBM Business Analytics helped Nottingham Building Society improve customer service and efficiencies Business Information & Analytics The new Information Agenda (US) Information on demand Centre for Business Optimisation (US) Business consulting

Smarter Business & Technology

You've seen the areas where progress is still needed to build a smarter planet ... now why not explore the business solutions and technology that will help drive the change that is needed.

Read more

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Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:26:00 -0800 Microsoft LookingGlass Video Demo - AdWeek NY 2009 http://mediascience.posterous.com/microsoft-lookingglass-video-demo-adweek-ny-2 http://mediascience.posterous.com/microsoft-lookingglass-video-demo-adweek-ny-2

Worth looking at from an UI point of view

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