How We Know Us

Tag: data

  • Determining Application Performance Profiles in the Cloud

    I want to know how to characterize my workloads in the cloud. With that, I should be able to find systems both over-provisioned and resource starved to aid in right-sizing and capacity planning. CloudForms by Red Hat can do these at the system level, which is where you would most likely take any actions, but I want…

  • Graphing Wall Street with LittleSis.org

    With a goal of transparency, LittleSis.Org has started collecting peer-membership information for public figures of many sorts.  Just the stuff made for social graphs! This is image represents the social networks of the CEOs of the American Wall Street companies, from the info at LittleSis.  Red nodes are the CEOs (Thain is included), and green…

  • Complete(?) Kiva Network

    I wanted to offer up an image of the complete(?) network after all of the kind interest in the preliminary network map I put together yesterday. From the feedback yesterday, I learned my lesson and have linked to a high-res version of the image.

  • Kiva Micro-Lending Offers API

    Incredibly great idea Kiva.org, the distributed micro-lending organization, has recently released a freely available API for accessing their data. I have just started poking at the data available, as I suspect network analysis will be able to help predict rates of return. Good on ‘ya Kiva! Update: hi-res image by request from smoovej

  • Demographics Fail

    We forget, now that our reach is wide, that all purchasing is done by individuals.  Since we don’t know the individuals, and locating and selling to each and every one of them (us) is too expensive, we developed marketing to help us select the people, the individuals, most likely to purchase whatever we are selling. …

  • Beautiful, Beautiful Data

    Flip over at InfoChimps has put together a massive scrape of twitter.  While trying to figure out how to process it all, I’ve drawn one day’s scrape* (20-Dec-08).  Many thanks to Flip and InfoChimps for the wow work, and doubly so for making publicly available.

  • The Never Ending Quest for Data

    Finding good data in this field is difficult, even most of the academic literature references relatively small networks of less than 100 or so individuals. I suggest that the academic research is just starting to take off now (although the field is very far from new), because of availability of large real world datasets available…