What is this place?
Polytechnic is the online home of Garrett Coakley.
It tends to focus on such geekery as web development, technology, music, film, and photography.
A proud member of Oxfordbloggers.com.
Elsewhere
Other places I can be found on the web.
- Follow me on twitter
- See my photography on flickr
- Current listening on last.fm
- What I’m linking to on del.icio.us
- My tumblr powered scrapbook of miscellanea
Tag Archives: data
Volumes of data
2.3 million photos with location data were uploaded to Flickr this month; 95,634,285 in total. That’s according to Brady Forrest’s post over at O’Reilly Radar on the appearance of Flickr photos on Google Street View. 2.3 million in one month!
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Flickr and neighbourhood
Have you ever wondered what Flickr does with all that geolocation data it gathers from our pictures (apart from pinning them to a map and working out the ratio of kittens to sunsets in a given area)? Well one of the things it does is is generate shapefiles of regional neighbourhoods to better work out where your picture was taken.
Now Tom Taylor has built a tool which allows you to visualise the boundaries of these neighbourhoods and see how Flickr views your part of the world.
Cool stuff.
Creating leverage at the data layer
Matt McAlister examines what it means to be part of the web of data:
It’s not about posting data to a domain and figuring out how to get people there to consume it. It’s about being the best data source or the best data aggregator no matter how people make use of it in the end.
Nate Koechley has a great companion piece entitled Data Ocean vs Document Lake.
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