Today, I enjoyed reading Kim Hart’s article in the Washington Post entitled “The Next Frontier: Decoding the Internet’s Raw Data.”
She mentions a number of current data exploitation and mining needs:
- Mining Facebook photos and status updates to discover people’s preferences;
- Deciphering weather patterns from climate records; and
- Exposing government data sets to citizens.
She identifies organization and display of data as a key issue facing our field. Although, in my opinion semantics, quality, availability, and all the other “ilities” will raise less flashy but significant issues. It’s exciting to see the issues we have been working for the last decade or so at the forefront of the next phase of computing.
[Via Washington Post]
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If you are totally into data very interesting post, but for those of us who are into graphics and visuals check out this site: http://www.archive.org/index.php
Gives you an interesting perspective on the ever changing internet.