Featured in data mining
Feb 06, 2015
Creating Buildings Out Of Data
An architecture firm is mining troves of info to build better
Aug 20, 2014
Twitter Bot Helps Chicago Officials Find Dirty Restaurants
The bot led to 133 restaurant inspections and 21 shutdowns in a 10-month period.
Jun 13, 2013
What Can We Learn From Spying On Our Own Metadata?
Why let the NSA have all the fun?
Jun 08, 2013
A Concise History Of The NSA’s Online Spying Program PRISM
Crucial to the program? Online tech companies.
Mar 22, 2013
Play A Chord And This Database Will Guess Which Comes Next
Hook Theory mined data to see how chords are used, then mapped them.
Feb 26, 2013
Quants V. Critics: Who Was Better At Predicting The Oscars?
In our small sample, math models won out slightly over expert critics in predicting Oscar wins in our 10 favorite categories.
Jun 26, 2012
Use a Mac? You Probably Want a More Expensive Hotel Reservation
As ever, the cloud knows best