Data science is “the sexiest job in the 21st century,” says Harvard Business Review. (via NYTimes.com)
"What will it take to build emotive-and-empathic data experiences? Less data science and more data art — which, in other words, means that data wranglers have to develop correlations between data much like the human brain finds context. It is actually not about building the fanciest machine, but instead about the ability to ask the human questions. It is not about just being data informed, but being data aware and data intelligent."
- Om Malik | Coffee & Empathy: Why data without a soul is meaningless
Social media now more popular than TV | We Are Social
The rise of digital has been supercharged by social media. Out of the 5.6 hours that we spend with online media, an average of 48% is spent with social media (which is 26% of overall media consumption, compared to TV’s 23%).
Tumblr has today quietly ticked over the 100 million blog mark, with those blogs containing some 44.6 billion posts… This marks significant growth over the last year, of somewhere around 50 million blogs since April of 2012, when it crossed 50 million for the first time.
(via The Next Web)
"There’s no bad data, only bad uses of data."
- Big Data and a Renewed Debate Over Privacy (via infoneer-pulse)
(via roomthily)
"‘Mobile search is just broken. Everyone in this goes to Yelp and searches and each of us get the same result. That’s clearly a broken model because every one of us is going to do different things or have different favorites’ [Dennis Crowley] said, highlighting that Foursquare’s focus is on personalized search, with result tailored to the user based on their previous information."
"The disorientation everyone blames on “information overload” may in fact have less to do with the amount of data we are being asked to process than the number of simultaneous people we are being asked to be."
- (thenewinquiry via nathanjurgenson)
"Data inherently has all of the foibles of being human. Data is not a magic force in society; it’s an extension of us."
- Mark Hansen (via stoweboyd)
(via roomthily)
Here are the 25 most popular tags used in posts about the 2013 GRAMMYs (ordered by how many notes they received this month). Surprised by anything there?
btw, if you tumbl professionally in any way, sign up for union metrics. It’s a bargain for the reports alone.
I’m hoping to write a post soon about how I use it (and how *not* to use it.)
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"The “Digital Universe” study finds that mature markets continue to account for the largest share of digital data, but that the geographic composition of the digital universe is rapidly changing. Currently, the US accounts for the largest share – 32% – of the digital universe, with Western Europe (19%), China (13%), and India (4%) accounting for another 36%, and the rest of the world the remaining 32%.
But while emerging markets accounted for only 23% of the digital universe in 2010, that share has already grown to 36% this year, and is predicted to reach 62% in 2020. In fact, that year, China alone will generate 22% of the world’s data… Between 2012 and 2020, the size of the digital universe will double every 2 years."
- Just 0.5% of the World’s Massive Trove of Online Data is Being Analyzed
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- Twitter has passed the half-billion account mark with 517 million accounts as of July 1, with 141.8 million of those users in the U.S.
- The top three cities in terms of tweets are Jakarta, Tokyo and London
- Geolocation is only used 0.77% of the time
- The highest-ranking U.S. city for tweeting is New York, with 0.4% of all tweets. San Francisco accounts for only 0.2% of all tweets.
- Brazil usurped Japan as the second-largest country after the U.S. but it is the most engaged. It has 10.6% of all tweets but only 6.7% of users.
- Japanese after English is the second-most popular language
(via TechCrunch)
