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The World Bank Open Data
The Data Catalog provides download access to over 2,000 ...

A recent post by GigaOm’s Imran Ali on the field of Da...
Following through on that thought, I decided to try to c ...
Here’s what I came up with:
* Data Markets: Services that make it easy to find d ...
... or Data” might in fact describe thes

But most importantly, data-driven science is less intell... then hypothesis-driven science. Data mining is sweet, an... Plotting multivariate data, maps, “relationships” an... visualizations is hip and catchy, everybody can understa... thinking ab

Data.gov.uk Newspaper
Friday, October 16th 2009
Over the last three days we’ve been working on a side ...
We’ve been thinking about the beta Data.gov.uk reposit ...
And perhaps unsurprisingly, we thought a good way to do ...

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Imagining A “Post-PC” World

What with the web being all about links, you would think... know about the title attribute, but I rarely see it. For... know, all links can have a title, specified by the title... <a> tag. This is in addition to whatever link text you s...
Not all lin

M. L�ng, K. Sattler, K. Schmidt, E. Schallehn:
Autonomous Tuning with Soft Indexes
ICDE Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systerms (SMDB07 ...

From a user perspective, current file systems are based ...
* Information is partitioned into coherent and disju ...
* Information objects are classified according to a ...
* Each information object is given a single, semiuni ...
Window

Despite the attempts of various neighbors to help, Mosel... wounds proved fatal, and Farrar did her best to comfort ...
The murder of Kitty Genovese shifted from crime to legen ...
The Times piece was followed by a story in Life magazine ...
New York be

The main emphasis of the project was to bring together a... historical mapping into a publicly accessible web map en...

The deep web (or invisible web or hidden web) is the nam... the World Wide Web that are not part of the surface web ... common search engines. It consists of pages which are no...
Non-textual files such as multimedia (image) files, Usen ...
The deep

The latest data from the Office for National Statistics ... borrowing up to October 2010. The figures go all the way... 1940s. It seems that all the political parties have face... of debt through the years - as if the economic climate h... independent

The Delivery Context Ontology provides a formal model of the characteristics of the environment in which devices inte... or other services. The delivery context includes the cha... the device, the software used to access the service and ...
The deliver

Whether you're a professional designer or just getting s...
Over 1 million circuit combinations possible
Includes booklet of 15 projects and with hundreds more p ...
Kit features popular modules like DC motor, servo, sound ...
... Endless hours of fun an

Fundamentally, our system is designed to be run across t... web front end and the back-end (commonly known as the "a... in SharePoint parlance).
FeandAppServerDiagram
As illustrated by the above diagram, the front-end compo ...

Consider Google. In a well-publicized move, a senior des... recently quit, stating that Google had no interest in or... design. Google, it seems, relies primarily upon test res... skill or judgment. Want to know whether a design is effe... Google can

Mark Shanley, an Irish graphic designer, turned his favo... feedback comments” into hilarious posters. Now that’... criticism.

if user-centred design principles are missing from proje... because designers don’t want them there in the first place

A conservative estimate by the World Blind Union indicat... million people world-wide are blind or severely visually...

"Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes."
Desmond Tutu

Psychological sleuths
Detecting deception
Some research links lying with such facial and bodily cu ...
BY RACHEL ADELSON

Find the essential details you need to use our web servi... eligibility to authentication patterns and technical doc... build enhanced services and solutions to everyday problems.

Redesigning Docs for RESTful Web APIs
In the past year, a new trend has emerged for web API do ...
Companies such as Posterous, Wordnik and Google have led ...
At Mashery, we were inspired by these new designs to bui ...
... already deployed I/O Docs for

Dewey.info is an experimental space for linked DDC data....
The ten main classes
000 Computer science, information & general works 100 Ph ...
Highlights
... ta is reusable under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license

Dickens London Trails is an iPhone app that enables user... London as characters from Dickens’ fiction would have.... through the streets of London on a series of unexpected ... encounters. You also discover more about Dickens’ even...
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