The benefits of information principles are revealed through education, so let's start with digital natives.
by Jon Udell
| @judell
| 26 October 2010
An efficient model of collective information management relies on principles like pub/sub, indirection and syndication. Translating these principles beyond computational thinkers is the tricky part. To pull it off we need to educate the kids we assume to be digital natives.
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Data from the Department of Energy's OpenEI platform is getting mashed up and put to use.
by Alex Howard
| @digiphile
| 26 October 2010
The Open Energy Information (OpenEI) platform from the Department of Energy shows how government data can be mashed up to inform citizens. OpenEI got a moment in the sun at the recent National Science Festival in Washington, D.C.
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by Ben Lorica
| @dliman
| 25 October 2010
Since the first-ever Mechanical Turk meetup a year ago, there has been an explosion in crowdsourcing services and a well-attended conference in San Francisco. I remain enthusiastic about crowdsourcing, but the number of companies has me worried about quality of work. Fortunately specialization is already occurring, so for particular tasks there are companies out there ready to provide high-quality service....
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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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