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posted on
March 8th, 2013
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The Quantified Self & Big Data: causing a new turn in science?

How much time do you spend on Facebook? How many of your friends are living in Amsterdam? What is the best time to wake up in the morn ...
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posted on
March 7th, 2013
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Masters of Media
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Amsterdam

Im .mobi lize: Addressing Amazon’s Platform Fragmentation

Coinciding with the release of Amazon’s Kindle Fire in 2011-12 (depending on your location), The global corporation also announced their ‘next generation’ ebook format, KF8, and t ...
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posted on
March 6th, 2013
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Masters of Media
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What to do with all that big data?

“Big data will be bigger in 2013” according to the read more about "What to do with all..."
posted on
March 6th, 2013
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Masters of Media
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Information visualization within Web 2.0: Google Flu Trends and Foursquare

Every day, users on the Web generate large amounts of data. At the same time it seems that the use of information visualization has increased with the rise of read more about "Information visualization within Web 2.0:..."
posted on
March 6th, 2013
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Masters of Media
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Amsterdam

Visualisation Aesthetics: Creative ways of visualising food and nutrition data

Communicating data can be a difficult task to embark on. Perhaps one of the biggest challenges would be to present / visualise data in a way that even viewers that are not familiar with the subject ...
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posted on
March 6th, 2013
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Masters of Media
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Amsterdam

Visualizing Emotions: Turning ‘Dry’ Data Into Stories

The best data visualizations are the ones that tell you a story. A good data visualization has the ability to show you something that you wouldn’t have seen by only looking at the data, it pr ...
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posted on
March 5th, 2013
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Masters of Media
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Amsterdam

Big data, long data and… ephemeral data?

Currently the topic of data is mostly approached in terms of volume and temporal scope – a perspective translated in expressions such as “big data” and “long data”. Nevertheless, these te ...
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posted on
March 3rd, 2013
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Masters of Media
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Amsterdam

Digital Comics in the face of DRM

With the dominating presence of smartphone and tablet technologies within todays current market, it is cle ...
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posted on
March 3rd, 2013
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Masters of Media
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Amsterdam

Spam books: How Amazon is selling you 35 Shades of Gray

Amazon’s Kindle has become somewhat of an industry leader for digital books or e-book consumption. Wit ...
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posted on
March 3rd, 2013
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Masters of Media
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Amsterdam

Amazon scrutinizes literary system

The meaning of art has been questioned many times. In my opinion the main function of literature is its ability to entertain the reader while letting him reflect and think deeper about life. ...
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