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Tag: software

  • Daring Fireball: Open and Shut

    John Graber of Daring Fireball has a great (albeit occasionally snarky) post challenging the value of “open” for shareholder value in technology companies. The key point he starts to discuss, and then backs away from, is the value of externalities contributing to create better products faster. Tim Wu also hints at this in his piece…

  • Network Analysis Application to Game Theory (with Software)

    When will network analysis provide additional insight into game theory? In a word: inequality. There must be some form of quantifiable inequality in the game: access, strength of relationships, goals, etc.  This difference creates opportunities for the individual players to use information (or resource) asymmetries and broker to their benefit. On the left all of…

  • Random Graph Generation in Perl

    If you ever find yourself needing to generate random graphs in Perl (quite the ice breaker, I can tell you), I recommend checking out Matt Spear’s Graph::Maker, which has generators for everything from Erdos-Renyi and Watts-Strogatz to Lollipop graphs. The only downside is the use of Graph which is s-l-o-w for graphs of even moderate…

  • 8 Requirements for a Perfect Contact Management System

    I read about some new organization software over at LifeHacker, which got me thinking about what would be my ideal organization software.  I am beginning to embrace the implications of the uneven levels of attention I can pay to people I know, and the definite limit to which I can keep everyone in my head. …

  • Visualize Your Network with Fidg’t

    figd’t screenshot There are more and more great tools getting developed for visualizing our social networks. One of the more beautiful ones I have come across is Fidg’t.  While not quite a SN visualization tool, it does operate on data from SN’s. Fidg’t is an interactive display that looks at your tags in Flickr and…

  • Playing with Circos

    Martin Krzywinski at the Genome Sciences Centre of the BC Cancer Agency, created software called Circos designed to help elucidate the interaction of genes, and has used it to create some truly beautiful graphs. The software is pretty complex, and I have only figured out how to use his simple on-line version, which limits the…