Pooling risk
Avedon Carol reminded us of Malcolm Gladwell's 2006 account of how US businesses strapped themselves to a demographic time bomb: In the uncertain nineteen-forties, in the wake of the Depression and the...
View ArticleGender Plots in Last.fm
Last.fm intern Joachim Van Herwegen explains the thinking behind his Gender Plot tool: About 6 weeks ago I started a short internship at Last.fm. For my project I wanted to explore Last.fm's data to...
View ArticleWhere's Yorkshire gone?
Take a chunk of anonymised data from British Telecom's database detailing the origin and destination of phone calls made from UK landlines, take steps to strip out numbers that belong to call centres,...
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