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Friday, December 20, 2019

In This Edition:
The Stochastic Method, occupation growth & decline, Happy Hues, illusion of the year, spec writing and The NYTimes on location tracking!

The Stochastic Method

Image: Dr. Jenn Kirby

This week I attended The Stochastic Method, an experimental music and performance concert in the CCA Glasgow featuring Iain Ross, Paul Michael Henry, Leslie Deere, Jenn Kirby and Graham Dunning. I also had the pleasure to design the poster for the event. Check out my photos from the gig here.

 

 

Occupation Growth & Decline

Image: Flowing Data

Flowing Data compiled American occupation data from 1970 to 2017 and have produced a lovely graph of occupation growth and decline.

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Happy Hues

Image: happyhues.co

Happy Hues is a lovely website that lets you see and change different colour palettes in the context of a page of content.

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Illusion of the Year 2019

Image: YouTube, The Illusion Contest

Spec Writing

Image: seths.blog

Working in software, I sometimes run into problems convincing project stakeholders about the purpose and limitations of project specs. This blog post from Seth Godin about defining the problem first and aiming to solve it, rather than aiming to write a spec for it, is absolute gold.

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NYTimes on Location Tracking

Image: The New York Times

The New York Times published a fantastic exposé and data visualistion site about the scale of gathering and selling of location data. They obtained a file with 50 billion location pings of 12 million Americans and sifted through the data in horror. The data can be bought from data aggregation companies that offer data collected from apps on your smartphone, like news or coupons apps, not from telecom companies or the big tech companies. It was easy for the NYTimes journalists to see how many people visited the playboy mansion overnight, or the movements of people within the White House. They also describe a list of steps to protect yourself from this type of location data gathering.

About Found This Week

Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
Each edition is curated by Daryl Feehely every Friday and highlights cool stuff found each week.
The first 104 editions were published on Medium before this site was created, check out the archive here.

Daryl Feehely

I’m a web consultant, contract web developer, technical project manager & photographer originally from Cork, now based in Liverpool. I offer my clients strategy, planning & technical delivery services, remotely & in person. I also offer freelance CTO services to companies in need of technical bootstrapping or reinvention. If you think I can help you in your business, check out my details on http://darylfeehely.com

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