For the Elderly, Diseases That Overlap
More than 700,00 people live in assisted-living centers, where they get help with daily activities like bathing and dressing. Most of the residents have multiple chronic health conditions.
This Week in Social Analytics on Tumblr | From ComScore’s 2013 U.S. Digital Future in Focus:
“Three social networks in particular – Tumblr, Pinterest and Instagram – each gained more than 10 million visitors over the course of the year in part by catering to a desire for more visually appealing content. comScore has called this phenomenon “the rise of the visual web.” Of the three, Tumblr had the largest audience at 30.8 million visitors (up 64 percent from the prior year), while Pinterest (up 284 percent to 28.9 million visitors) and Instagram (up 284 percent to 27.4 million visitors) both shared the same outsized growth rate.”
The first graph above shows the shares for time spent on each site, with Tumblr coming in second behind Facebook, while the second shows the total unique visitor trend with Tumblr trending above both Pinterest and Instagram.
You can download the full report at the link at the top of this post.
How to Create a Live Feed of U.S. Drone Strikes with MapBox
Last Thursday the United Nations opened an inquiry into the “civilian impact of the use of drones and other forms of targeted killing.” Data - data about casualties, targets, frequency, and other topics - will play an important role in this investigation, led by the UN special rapporteur for human rights and counterterrorism. Visualization can add important context to help the public follow this inquiry. Adding markers dynamically can be a serious game-changer for visualizations using time-sensitive data, and something that you can do with MapBox.”
Summary of Bills Vetoed, 1789-present
New Interactive Climate Change App
The New Scientist has launched an interactive map of NASA’s historical temperature record for the whole planet. Find out how temperatures are changing in your backyard.
The Data and Tech Behind Sitegeist
In or near DC? You should come to Sunlight Foundation’s Open House!
Wednesday, Dec. 5th
Doors open at 6PM
RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/387533454664147/?fref=ts
Joern Roeder & Jonathan Pirnay - Facebook Faces (2011)
This is an installation of over 100,000 Facebook profile pictures collected to form a wallpaper, a project dealing with “the issue of data accessibility on the Internet, a topic that is gaining more and more importance and actuality, especially in our times of privacy protection and social networks.
On the one hand internet giants like Google are coming under criticism for unsolicitedly collecting any information accessible; on the other hand it is surprising how many intimacies we reveal voluntarily, especially in social networks like Facebook.
An unimaginable flood of images with self-projection as its only purpose.”
Calling All Data Designers: The Economist Wants Your Visualizations
Map Your Way Through the London Olympics
What Social Media Do Government Officials Use Most?
A new survey of 164 members of the GOVERNING Exchange, an online community of government executives, finds that Facebook and LinkedIn are used most often in the workplace. Unsurprisingly, Facebook is used at home by more that 4 out of 5 government executives. The findings reveal that Pinterest — despite being only two years old — is used at home by 1 out of 5 public servants.
Better medicine, brought to you by big data
Slowly but surely, health care is becoming a killer app for big data. Whether it’s Hadoop, machine learning, natural-language processing or some other technique, folks in the worlds of medicine and hospital administration understand that new types of data analysis are the key to helping them take their fields to the next level
Where are you on the global fat scale?
Using UN data on population size in 177 countries, together with estimates of global weight from the WHO and mean height from national health examination surveys the team were able to calculate average BMI figures for each country.
