Every day hundreds of articles are put online via the New York Times' website. All of these articles are then shared, and commented on, across social media networks. The New York times wanted to know the impact of these social sharing of their articles and therefore they developed a tool called 'Cascade'. This tool illustrates the connections between readers and publishers and … [Read more...] about The New York Times uses Data to Visualize Sharing Activities
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The Datafication of People and Stuff and Things
So I thought I was being original for writing a piece on datafication. But when I searched it, I saw that many before me had written about it, and just like the word Big Data, so too had datafication become a buzzword, just like buzzword before it had become a buzzword. But like Chumbawumba, I get up again, and this will not keep me down. First, the definition. There is no … [Read more...] about The Datafication of People and Stuff and Things
