48 hours at the GE Minds + Machines 2016 Hackathon – CSC Blogs

Who thinks of these things…

DataParis est une data visualisation qui met en avant des données sur Paris et les Parisiens localisées par le biais du réseau métropolitain.

DataParis.io – Une dataviz interactive sur Paris et les Parisiens

Times front pages through the decades: a look at coverage since the election of Franklin Pierce, with observations by the presidential historian Michael Beschloss.

New York Times Election Front Pages

And the prize for worse promotional offer goes to Accor Hotels.

The world is experiencing rapid urbanisation, but not every city is growing. Population is likely to decline in 17% of large cities in developed regions and 8% of cities across the world from 2015 to 2025, according to a McKinsey report

Shrinking cities: the rise and fall of global urban populations – mapped | Cities | The Guardian

In summary; Facebook’s value is based on 1.4 billion lines of data containing 98 fields of data.

Facebook built the world’s best ad platform by tracking your behavior online and off it.

98 personal data points that Facebook uses to target ads to you – The Washington Post

“WiFi signals can also be exploited to recognize keystrokes. The intuition is that while typing a certain key, the hands and fingers of a user move in a unique formation and direction and thus generate a unique pattern in the time-series of Channel State Information (CSI) values, which we call CSI-waveform for that key”.

Michael Tsai – Blog – Keystroke Recognition Using Wi-Fi Signals

You have to say that at this point we need to assume that nothing is protected.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-smart-stats-indicate-hard-drive-failures/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=Newsletter-B1&utm_content=drivestats-b&utm_campaign=Newsletter-20161101

These guys are a real service to the community. Thanks Backblaze.