TED Talk on Emotion Sensing Technology
Good to see the progress at Affectiva on using regular webcams to sense facial emotions:
16 Mar
DNA Laser Printing: Cambrian Genomics
DNA Laser Printing: Cambrian Genomics
Exciting to learn that gene printing will soon be a reality” “Fixing the mistakes of our human DNA” http://cambriangenomics.com/
15 Jan
Using technology to measure emotions
Using technology to measure emotions
From the New Yorker: We Know How You Feel Computers are learning to read emotion, and the business world can’t wait. By scanning your face, computers can decode …
04 Nov
The Language of Lying
The Language of Lying
The Language of Lying – TED Ed Lesson By Noah Zandan We hear anywhere from 10 to 200 lies a day. And although we’ve spent much of …
25 Sep
An Artificial Tongue That Tastes Wine Better Than A Professional Critic
An Artificial Tongue That Tastes Wine Better Than A Professional Critic
Robots might be unseating the cherry job of wine critics soon. Researchers in Denmark have created an artificial tongue to find out whether expensive wine …
20 Aug
Nicholas Felton’s 2013 Annual Data Report
Nicholas Felton’s 2013 Annual Data Report
For a data visualization nerd, yesterday’s 2013 Felton Annual data report is one of the most exciting days of the year. Here’s the link to …
06 Aug
Reality Mining vs. Social Mining
Reality Mining vs. Social Mining
Insight from Sandy Pentland at MIT: “We’ve had social science for centuries, but the science was historically limited to things you could measure in a lab, …
01 May
The Magic Word to Boost Your Facebook Post Is…
The Magic Word to Boost Your Facebook Post Is…
Fun to see the personal product input from Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook, and agree that it’s an important word for the algorithm, though not something …
13 Mar
The Languages of Twitter
The Languages of Twitter
The interactive visual graphic above demonstrate the growth of twitter in foreign languages and is a great visual representation of global social media and language …
06 Feb
DataBall: Bringing Baseball’s Moneyball to Basketball
DataBall: Bringing Baseball’s Moneyball to Basketball
With an ocean of new statistical information and “big data” available, the NBA could be on the verge of understanding the value of every single …