Archive for November, 2008

O’Reilly on the Future of Massive Data Analysis

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

There’s a post by Joseph Hellerstein worth a read over on O’Reilly Radar: The Commoditization of Massive Data Analysis.  It’s more enterprise focused then small-normal business focused, but that’s just a consequence of the target audience.

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A Roundup of U.S. Election Visualizations

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Well Formed Data is offering this post full of offbeat election and presidential data visualizations.

It’s definitely worth a look, I’m particularly enamored with the New York Times’ Presidential Physique Graph, although the data density is a bit low for being so large.