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March 7, 2013

Twitter’s languages of New York mapped

Who speaks which language on Twitter in New York? This map by the imaginative UCL data team maps 8.5 million tweets, captured between January 2010 and […]
March 7, 2013

Open-sourced blueprints for civilization | Video on TED.com

Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing a set of blueprints for 50 farming tools that can be built cheaply from scratch. Call it a "civilization starter kit." To […]
March 7, 2013

Data and Design How-tos | Drawing by Numbers

How-to-guide for data and design: On this site you will find: * Free-to-use and Open Source software tools and advice for visualising information: to help you […]
March 7, 2013

Copyright and the World’s Most Popular Song by Robert Brauneis :: SSRN

"Happy Birthday to You" is the best-known and most frequently sung song in the world. Many – including Justice Breyer in his dissent in Eldred v. […]
March 7, 2013

Big data and development: “The second half of the chess board”

A new wave of innovations can come about for two reasons. Soon the marriage of knowledge and technology could put us in a position to decisively […]
March 6, 2013

Be Good Be Social

Last friday, Be Good Be Social was organised in Amsterdam for the first time.  Be Good Be Social brings together third sector professionals interested in social media […]
March 6, 2013

“Nederland Opent” publication – Waag Society

To conclude the project ‘Nederland Opent Data’ (Netherlands Opens Data), a book has been published at the beginning of 2013, written by Carlien Roodink. This illustrated […]
February 28, 2013

The toilet gap: How much of differences across developing countries in child height can sanitation explain?

A child’s height is one of the most important indicators of her well-being. Height reflects the accumulated total of early-life health, net nutrition, and disease. Because […]
February 28, 2013

A Computer Can Do Your International Development Job Thanks to Open Data – Technology Salon

Could computers make better international development decisions than humans? Interesting blog by Wayan Vota of Development Gateway. To find out more, visit the original site: A […]