One of the problems of justice systems everywhere is that they depend on subjectivity and have near zero data-mining expertise. Because of that, tons of money are wasted in keeping low-risk offenders in jail. As the attorney general for New Jersey, Anne Milgram changed the panorama of her state’s criminal justice system. By applying statistics… Continue reading Moneyballing criminal justice
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A primer on Visual Encoding
Michael Dubakov has this great introduction to visual encoding, along with samples and easy to remember rules, so you don’t mess up the next time you’re trying to visualize data.
Zoomdata: BI without ETL
This weekend I took a few minutes to test Zoomdata. And when I say minutes, I literally mean minutes. These guys have done an amazing job to provide a quick mobile-ready demo that you can download as a VM, or as I did, install from an RPM package in a fresh Linux system. After the… Continue reading Zoomdata: BI without ETL
How I fell in love with MongoDB
I just finished the developer and DBA tracks of the two online MongoDB on-line trainings. The courses are excellent, providing all you need to know to start working as a developer or DBA with MongoDB. And, uh… they’re free! I have taken several online courses and seen a lot of tutorials. One thing that always… Continue reading How I fell in love with MongoDB
175 years of maps
You’ve gotta hand it to the swiss. Follow this link and you will land in an interactive high-resolution historical map of Switzerland, with an impressive detail level that allows you to time-travel 175 years in map-making, witnessing city walls being replaced by roads and towns engulfed by cities. Mind you: this is for all Switzerland, not just… Continue reading 175 years of maps