Trading platforms, truth in graphs, European financial stats, and Mandelbrot's passing.
by Julie Steele
| @jsteeleeditor
| 21 October 2010
In this edition of Strata Week: The London Stock Exchange moves from .Net to open source; learn how graphical scales can lie; the Euroean Central Bank president calls for better financial statistics; and we bid farewell to the father of fractals.
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How satellites and sensors can assess the health of crops.
by Michael Ferrari
| @aeroculus
| 18 October 2010
Many satellites capture everything from ocean temperatures, to land reflectance at the surface of the Earth, to global chlorophyll production. Here's a look at how that data can reveal the condition of a country's crops.
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Distributed video editing, big data tool updates, Riak continues to mature.
by Edd Dumbill
| @edd
| 15 October 2010
In this edition of Strata Week: the Army turns to big data to sniff out internal threats; CouchDB helps with collaborative video editing; Riak adds full-text searching; and a look at notable Hadoop World announcements.
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A look at the topics, sessions and workshops planned for the next Where 2.0 conference.
by Brady Forrest
| @brady
| 14 October 2010
Google and other companies are jockeying for position in the location space, which makes the next Where 2.0 particularly intriguing. Here's a look at the planned topics, sessions and workshops -- and a reminder to get your proposals in before the Oct. 25 deadline.
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The predictive power of weather info, as illustrated by cows and La Niña.
by Michael Ferrari
| @aeroculus
| 11 October 2010
A forecast -- weather or otherwise -- is always a blend of art and science. Nothing is foolproof. But in this post, Michael Ferrari shows how simple analysis can reveal a connection between a weather event (La Niña) and commodity production (milk).
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Why we must consider the different properties and purposes of computer files.
by Jon Udell
| @judell
| 7 October 2010
Some kinds of computer files have different properties than others, and thus serve different purposes. Structured representation of data is one such property. If we are trying to put data onto the web, and if we want others to have the use of that data, and if we hope it will flow reliably through networks to all the places where it's needed, then we ought to consider how the files we choose to publish do, or don't, respect that property.
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