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(That's) Numbersense by Kaiser Fung 18 Aug 2013 | 10:16 am
I recently received a copy of Numbersense by Kaiser Fung for review. Fung is the author of a blog I have a lot of respect for : Junk Charts. The current post at the top of Junk Charts is about spider ...
Google's Leaps and Bounds in Local Search 28 Jul 2013 | 11:59 pm
I recently wrote about the changes observed in Google's local search product on the web over the course of a year. This year, Google has rolled out some changes to their web based experience that indi...
An Experiment in Data Driven Digital Art 8 Jul 2013 | 10:38 am
Many moons ago, I produced a number of images visualizing various aspects of the blogosphere. These pictures proved of interest to a number of people in part due to the notion of visualizing the funda...
Using Checkin Times to Infer Effective Opening Hours 3 Jul 2013 | 09:44 pm
It's an idea that everyone has had, and I'm sure I'm not reporting something new. Foursquare has a feature that allows you to see their best guess at opening hours based on when people checkin to a bu...
River Filigree 30 Jun 2013 | 09:03 pm
[Briefly] Take a look at these images created by Nelson Minar and found on Wired - they not only do a great job of representing the rivers (and, by complement, additional features like mountain ranges...
Metric driven Agile for Big Data 21 Apr 2013 | 02:43 am
Working in Bing Local Search brings together a number of interesting challenges. Firstly, we are in a moderately sized organization, which means that our org chart has some rough similarities to our h...
Metric driven Agile for Big Data 21 Apr 2013 | 02:43 am
Working in Bing Local Search brings together a number of interesting challenges. Firstly, we are in a moderately sized organization, which means that our org chart has some rough similarities to our ...
O Knoweldge Graph, Where Art Thou? 11 Feb 2013 | 09:50 am
The web search community, in recent months and years, has heard quite a bit about the 'knowledge graph'. The basic concept is reasonably straightforward - instead of a graph of pages, we propose a gra...
O Knowledge Graph, Where Art Thou? 11 Feb 2013 | 09:50 am
The web search community, in recent months and years, has heard quite a bit about the 'knowledge graph'. The basic concept is reasonably straightforward - instead of a graph of pages, we propose a gra...
Participation and Observation in Search 9 Feb 2013 | 06:47 am
The early days of web search were essentially about observation. The web search engine observed the web (documents, links and user behaviours) and then delivered results based on those observations. ...
