January 2010
10 posts
Data Dashboards
I am planning on demoing some best-of-class web-based interactive data dashboards to my colleagues here at Nokia next week. But all I can come up with are Google Services: Google Insight, Google AdSense, Google Analytics, Google Finance, heck even Gapminder and Youtube Insights (see image) is nowadays owned Google. Isn’t any other company at least in one or another aspect a tiny bit better...
Ovi Maps
So, yesterday’s news conference by Nokia contained some very good news (good for the consumer, but just as good for the company I would say):
The Ovi Maps Navigator will be free of charge! When I got my E72, and for the first time actually saw Ovi Maps in action, I was rather surprised to find out that they try to charge for the service. I got so annoyed by the user interface as well as by...
R goes Web2.0
I was positively surprised to read that there is a useR meetup in San Francisco that is being sponsored by twitter. So, it seems that some of the top web service companies in the States are seeing the potential of R.
The topic of the meetup is R-powered Web Apps. In particular Jeroen Ooms will be presenting his super slick javascripted (ext.js) web frontend for the visualization package ggplot2.
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“For most of the foreigners who move to Finland, the motivation to come here is...”
– Heli on the War for Talent in Finland :-)
Rrrrattle
Rattle is a Data Mining GUI for R. Rattle stands for “R Analytical Tool To Learn Easily”, and I can attest that claim. It succeeds in comprehensively offering the vast range of (R) modelling alternatives, and enhances the data mining experience with tools for data loading (CSV, RData, RODBC, etc.), data preprocessing, data explorations (visualizations), and model evaluations. An...
Google's Phone is here (at least in the US) →
530 USD (=370€) unlocked. BillShrink provides a quick overview of the “new generation of smartphones”.
Visualizing Hierarchical Structures
…is beautifully done by these guys for the spending structure of the UK government. At wheredoesmymoneygo.org users are able to intuitively dive into budget details, and see how these have changed throughout the years.
As an alternative visualization approach, one could chart a treemap. At IBM’s Many Eyes site users can upload their own data, and start charting treemaps within an...
