Quick links

• A new pulsar has been discovered by global volunteer computing in the Einstein@Home project.
• Four Billion Little Brothers?: Privacy, mobile phones, and ubiquitous data collection. Nice article in the ACM Queue about reality mining and privacy.
• Joseph Turian offers a free consultation on data strategy; how to capture, process and monetize your data.
• (At least) two new books on low-cost or personal genomics are coming out – Here is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics by Misha Angrist (a k a GenomeBoy) and The $1,000 Genome: The Revolution in DNA Sequencing and the New Era of Personalized Medicine by Kevin Davies, who writes for Bio-IT World.
• Mint Data makes available aggregated spending patterns in the US from the Mint.com personal finance platform.

Quick links

Ran across a couple of interesting links:

Space-Time Travel Data is Analytic Super-Food!, a very meaty blog post where Jeff Jonas starts by discussing largely the same themes that I blogged about a while back, but he has thought more – a lot more! – deeply about it and delivers a number of interesting insights and predictions. The comments section contains some good stuff too.

Data is Journalism – this post discusses the acquisition by MSNBC.com of the local data aggregator service Everyblock. The question of whether data “is” journalism reminds me of the world of science – is a big and hard-to-obtain data set worthy of being published in a prestigious journal, even if the accompanying paper lacks a clear advancement in scientific knowledge? These questions may not be correctly formulated, and when it comes to journalism, I’m certain that data analysis and presentation will play an important role in its future, along with the more traditional components.