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Pastagram
While preparing and arranging today’s meal – Penne al Forno con Polpettine – to be documented and posted on Instagram, I thought: Why not preparing and arranging a pasta network with the help of the...
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How content is propagated might tell what it’s about
Memes – images, jokes, content snippets that get spread virally on the net – have been a popular topic in the Net’s pop culture for some time. A year ago, we started thinking about, how we could...
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Before and After Series C funding – a network analysis of Domo
One of the most interesting Big Data companies in this network analysis of Venture Capital connections has in my opinion been Domo. Not only did it receive clearly above average funding for such a...
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Crowdsourcing Science
Open foresight is a great way to look into future developments. Open data is the foundation to do this comprehensively and in a transparent way. As with most big data projects, the difficult part in...
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Datalicious Notebookmania – My favorite 7 IPython Notebooks
One of the most remarkable features of this year’s Strataconf was the almost universal use of IPython notebooks in presentations and tutorials. This framework not only allows the speakers to...
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How to create a location graph from the Foursquare API
Monday, I’ll be speaking on “Linked Data” at the 49th German Market Research Congress 2014. In my talk, there will be many examples of how to apply the basic approach and measurements of Social Network...
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Querying the Bitcoin blockchain with R
The crypto-currency Bitcoin and the way it generates “trustless trust” is one of the hottest topics when it comes to technological innovations right now. The way Bitcoin transactions always backtrace...
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The Top 7 Beautiful Data Blog Posts in 2014
2014 was a great year in data science – and also an exciting year for me personally from a very inspirational Strata Conference in Santa Clara to a wonderful experience of speaking at PyData Berlin to...
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Work in Progress – 3 great (almost) unpublished data science books
One thing that’s particularly great about the Internet is the Sharing Economy. So much information, know-how, content is given out for free on a daily basis. Here’s three fascinating unpublished books...
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Coolhunting like a Streetfighter
One of the most exciting applications of Social Media data is the automated identification, evaluation and prediction of trends. I already sketched some ideas in this blog post. Last year – and this...
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