Distantly descended from the Time and Motion Men, Ben Waber [pictured here] writes, in Technology Review: A new line of research examines what happens in an office where the positions of the cubicles and walls—even the coffee pot—are all determined by data. …For instance, what if office coffee machines moved around according to the social context? […]
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The personal data of Mr. Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram analyzes some of the data he has been collecting about himself over many years: But even though I’ve been accumulating data for years—and always meant to analyze it—I’ve never actually gotten around to doing it. But withMathematica and the automated data analysis capabilities we just released in Wolfram|Alpha Pro, I thought now would be a good time […]
For data enthusiasts (and themselves)
Not everyone is a data enthusiast. A true data enthusiast is more likely than a non-enthusiast to analyze the degree to which that first statement is true. That would require suitable, pertinent data to analyze. We have just become aware of a source of data, much of it raw, most of it copious. The web […]
Stapel accused of folding/mutilating data
Professor Diederik Stapel, author of the study “Seeing one thing and doing another: Contrast effects in automatic behavior“, is accused of saying one thing but doing another, according to reports in the Dutch press and elsewhere. DutchNews.nl sums up: Tilburg professor faked data in at least 30 academic publications Tilburg and Groningen universities are to take legal action […]