Hans Rosling, the brilliant Swedish statistician and doctor, has been on a tear lately, publishing a lovely series of short videos on Gapminder.org. The videos… Read More »Visualizing swine flu versus tuberculosis
One of the best things about being an academic (or even, like me, a psuedo-academic) is how easy it’s become to collaborate with people you… Read More »Twitter and social graph analysis
Monday night, Rachel and I went to our local movie theatre to watch “Slingshot Hip-Hop“, a documentary on Palestinian hiphop by Palestinian/Syrian/American filmmaker Jackie Reem… Read More »Slingshot Hip-hop, and the power of digital Palestine
This past weekend, I wrote a quick tool that estimates the incidence of certain words within the twitter stream using just a single search, not… Read More »Twitter – trends and incidence
Two weekends ago, I wrote a couple of scripts designed to let me (and anyone else who was interested) study the emergence of memes on… Read More »Flu infects Twitter
Yesterday, Yahoo announced that it would be shutting down its free webhosting service, Geocities, later this year. The Geocities website sports a banner announcing that… Read More »An elegy (of sorts) for Geocities