Languages of Melbourne detected from Twitter | Technical Blog. How cool is this picture? Tweeters tweet most in Malay, Arabic, Indonesian, Japanese and Spanish … the article actually talks more about Malay versus Indonesian, the lack of Greek tweeters, the…
Month: July 2013
Google faces
Googling for faces in maps of the earth (via Stephen Downes) The way we perceive our environment is a complex procedure. By the help of our vision we are able to recognize friends within a huge crowd, approximate the speed…
Been Bored lately?
Been Bored lately? from The Age Social media and iPhones aren’t a cure for boredom so much as a distraction from it. And it is a distraction that has the twin effect of contributing in the end to the very…
OkTrends – data from an online dating site
OkTrends. (Data from the OKCupid online dating site) I’m just browsing through my old stuff on another site and came across this site – it has some interesting data on the way people project themselves online. It’s different from Facebook…