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Tracking Manny’s Homers

The Boston Globe has put together an very cool mini-app that tracks all of Manny Ramirez’s home runs as he approaches number 500. You can break it down in all sorts of data goodness from ballpark to...

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Fun with brands

Interesting timeline looking at the brands we use during the day. Could be a fun project and make for very interesting trends.

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Molten Data and NPR

Update: Jeff Jarvis asks a great question about what people could do with this data. It’ll be fun to find out. I was re-reading Matt Waite’s post on molten data and then read about NPR releasing an API...

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Campaign Finance API from the NY Times

The New York Times opened up an API to get data about campaign financing. Yes, I’m jealous that they did this before we did.

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Living Behind the Pay Wall

Techdirt has two really good posts today about making information hard-to-find when customers are looking for it. The first deals directly with it by looking at newspapers holding their archives...

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Google Flu Trends

Lots of people are linking to it but Google’s Flu Trends is a pretty amazing site. The things you can figure out when you have the incredible amount of data Google has access to can provide insights...

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Hadoop’ing at My Desk

Last week, I started scrounging around the office for some unused PC’s. Unfortunately, they were more than just a few because of all the things going on at the Times. I grabbed three, put them on my...

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Flow Chart for Data Visualization

When you are wondering how best to show data, use this flow chart. [via]

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Testing with Redis

Long time, no blog… But enough about that. On the side, I’ve been working on a new aggregator, Aggir, which allows me to test various things. I started off using SQLite and Sequel for storage, put Solr...

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