Sunday, November 11, 2012

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Rethinking Education - YouTube

A really cool illustration from Mark Wesch of Kansas about how web 2.0 technologies are shaping the way we learn, collaborate, and harness information.


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Monday, September 17, 2012

Strat-Wise: When Data Destroys Value

This article hits on the head a common issue in the business world.  Our ability to create and process data far exceeds are ability to create strategic value of that same data.  Further both IT and the Business think it should be the others responsibility to make sense of the vast pools of information that flow from our data centers, applications, and processes.

The solution lies in making sure we don't use the GIGO methodology.  Just because we can measure and record something does not necessarily  mean we should.  We must be smart enough to understand and trust the data we do record so that we can best use the regurgitated information in a meaningful manner.

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Friday, September 14, 2012

Anchors II Course with Jeremy & Shannon - Devils Lake Climbing Guides

I have a friend at work that loves to go climbing.  We recently spoke of our recent adventures out west.  I and my family went to central Oregon and their family went to Colorado.  Central Oregon is fantastic btw, great for families.  You can bike, raft, climb, hike, go spelunking, and end the day drinking some of the finest craft micro brew in the world.  She mentioned she loves to climb and just went to Wisconsin to do a little climbing.  They hired a guide and off they went.  Here is the Guide's blog about their little day adventure.

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Thursday, September 6, 2012

DIY: front O2 sensor on 02 WRX

So I picked up a new toy from UltraGauge a week ago.  I have a car that supports OBD2 output, but does not have a display in the dash that gives me all the cool info that today's late model vehicles do.  I focus mostly on the MPG average and MPG instantaneous info, but there are 60 some fields reported.  This little $70 unit will plug into your port and give you the ability to view tons of information about your car.  It is a great unit for the money and I recommend getting one if you are looking to view real time information from your car.  I found out that I had a bad O2 sensor from an error code that the unit pulled.  So I ordered a new O2 sensor and plan on getting my hands dirty in the very near future.

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CIGNA Embraces Online Collaboration; SharePoint-based Internal Sites Now Total More than 1400 - Microsoft in Health - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

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Interesting article about Cigna using Sharepoint to collaborate.

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Percolator, Dremel and Pregel: Alternatives to Hadoop - Data Science Central

I have been spending a lot of time discussing and working to implement a Hadoop cluster with my team mates at work.  I agree that Hadoop is not the cure all for our collective data needs.  It is a great tool but has it challenges when working with dynamic data sets.  Vince Granville discusses alternative technologies that can consume data in a faster ecosystem.


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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

DENSO Part # 2349011

http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/catalog.php?catalog=14&partnum=2349011&a=Search%2Bfor%2BDENSO%2B2349011


Thanks,

John

NSA Mimics Google, Pisses Off Senate | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

Sad example of where the one dept of the Fed comes up with a pretty good innovation and the bureaucracy tries to squash it.  The NSA created Accumulo, a hadoop toolset, to tackle big data surveillance jobs.  They had some issues with the available off the shelf solutions when they began this project.  Namely the existing implementations were very immature, unproven, and not secure to the level that the NSA required.

Oh well, another example of how the government has snuffed inovation.


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Why passwords have never been weaker—and crackers have never been stronger | Ars Technica

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/08/passwords-under-assault/


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John

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Visual Command Center

Here is a flickr stream of some pretty outstanding visualizations.  They are done by a company called Visual Command Center.  Good stuff!


http://www.flickr.com/photos/idvsolutions/7196486270/in/photostream/lightbox/

CL doing some visualization

Cool, yet another nice illustration of a mashup.  Craigslist data and a map of the US are combined to show relative Craigslist communities.  Pretty cool.


http://uxblog.idvsolutions.com/2011/07/chalkboard-maps-united-states-of.html

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

10 Ways America Is Losing Its Superpower Status to China - DailyFinance

Well written article that is a little bit of a bummer.


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Visualizing Yahoo! Mail

Yahoo is brilliant for the moment.  This is a great visualization.  And is actually running in real time.


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Real-time Twitter heat map with MongoDB « comSysto.com

Awesome depiction of Tweets being sent and received during a 10 day period.  The twit tracked was "Good Morning"  and they added a time lasped data set and overlaid the data set to its geographical value.  The colors change as the broadcast of the tweets increases.  The was made with MongoDB and I think the team at Vertaline created the visualization    They also used a word that is "no-no' in my house, but gets said too much.   Oh, the source code is available to fork, Why not try and see if you can add different variables and then create a new map.



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comsysto/twitter-realtime-heatmap · GitHub


If you read the previous entry, I mentioned this really cool MongoDB tool that will allow you create real-time heatmaps of twitter entries.


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Friday, August 10, 2012

Stanford’s Free Online Courses

If you ever wanted to study at Stanford but thought you may not be "Stanford Material" or did not think you had the funding to enrich your life at this fine institution, look no further.

Stanford has a number of free online courses for you.  I will admit that most of the courses are a bit technical but with the prevalence of technology in society today, this could give you leg up at the next cocktail party.


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Monday, July 30, 2012

Get Mountain Lion Hacker-Friendly with This Huge List of Command Line Tricks

If you are a Mac user and like to harken back to the days of playing with the C shell or Korn shell, this article is for you.  OSX has a great set of command line capabilities that us uber geeks can really sink our teeth into.


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Monday, July 16, 2012

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Interesting article on how to give a presentation

http://t.co/RfLYZHfB


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Federal tool for developing information analysis strategies

Here's an interesting article discusses Lockheed Martin's involvement with the Air Force to develope a tool to search social media networks for sentiment data in Third World countries. It will be interesting to see if the defense industry can create better tools than the big web properties. History has shown necessity is the mother of invention. History has also shown that the innovators generally cash in on a big payday.


http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/lm-wisdom.html


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Johnn D. Taylor first principles five keys to restoring America's prosperity - Google Search

http://www.google.com/search?q=Johnn+D.+Taylor+first+principles+five+keys+to+restoring+America's+prosperity&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari


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John

Friday, January 6, 2012

CBS Chicago: Who Ya Crappin'?

Who Ya Crappin'?

(WSCR) Who ya crappin'?

Read more: http://wbbm.m0bl.net/r/u537p

Sent from the CBS Chicago iPhone App.

Download the iPhone App here:
http://m.m0bl.net/itunes/7i46zn


Thanks,


John