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Chart.xkcd

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Tim Qian has created a charting library in the style of xkcd diagrams, because they are cool, that's why ;-p

Data Vis

Web Dev

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Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph

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The Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph is a RDF dataset of over 8 billion triples of information about academic publications across 200,000+ fields of study.

AI & ML

Data Vis

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HTML5 Shopping Cart

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Smashing Magazine posted a handy guide to creating a standalone shopping cart using HTML5 session and local storage.

Web Dev

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4 Laws of Intuitive UX

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The Learn UI Blog have a great post on the 4 laws of intuitive UX, these are really great!

Design

Web Dev

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Trails of Wind

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German data visualisation company Figures have created a data visualisation that illustrates the prevaling direction of the wind based on the direction of airport runways across the world.

Data Vis

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The Night With - Duo Van Vliet

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This week I attended The Night With's first Glasgow concert of the current season with the fantastic Duo Van Vliet performing at The Hug And Pint. Check out some photos of the night here. Also, the vegan food in the Hug and Pint is amazing!

Music

Photo

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NULL Licence Plate

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Information security researcher Droogie registered the licence plate NULL thinking the plate would allow his car to be invisible to the system. Instead, he got assigned $12,000 worth of traffic tickets that had been NULL data for the licence plate field!

Life

Tech

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Podcasts Of The Week: The David McWilliams Podcast - Exploring the ramifications of a united Ireland

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This week I caught up with some episodes of The David McWilliams Podcast. I like the format of the episodes where his friend asks the (sometimes leading) questions which makes the content more of a conversation down the pub rather than a sermon in the church of behavioural economics. The stat man Finn also sounds a bit like The Viper, so I picture The Viper in a smoke filled room speaking in hushed tones over a laptop with Excel in full screen mode :-p.

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Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) 2019

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The European Commission has released the results of the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) 2019 for all EU countries. The results track each country against the EU index across Connectivity, Human Capital, Use of Internet Services, Integration of Digital Technology, and Digital Public Access.

Business

Life

Tech

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Trivago ML Image Labelling

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Trivago deployed machine learning to present images of hotel spas when a user searched hotels with spas to improve user experience. This blog post describes how they tweaked pre-trained convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to label 100+ million hotel images in order to display spa realted images during contextual searches.

AI & ML

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