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Google Lens is now rolling out to Assistant on Pixel phones
November 21, 2017Yale Professors Race Google and IBM to the First Quantum Computer – The New York Times
November 21, 2017My public notes from #RSGDream17, #ERCC9 and other misc. events in late Nov. ’17 (i0isg,i0rsg17,i0exrna17)
November 21, 2017Links
https://linkstream2.gerstein.info/tag/i0rsg17
Tweets
https://storify.com/markgerstein/favorite-tweets-from-late-nov-17-meetings-ercc9-rs
Talks
http://lectures.gersteinlab.org/summary/Genomics-n-DataSci–20171108-i0isg/
More “Private” Notes
http://meetings.gersteinlab.org/2017/11.19/i0rsg17+i0exrna17/ http://meetings.gersteinlab.org/2017/11.12/i0isg-slides-green-talk/
ERCC9 – exRNA
November 19, 2017ttps://exrna.org/ercc9/
What Happens When You Put 500,000 People’s DNA Online – The Atlantic
November 19, 20174400 Service and Assistance Animals | It’s Your Yale
November 19, 2017includes emotional support animals, such as bunnies & hedgehogs
https://your.yale.edu/policies-procedures/policies/4400-service-and-assistance-animals
ERCC9 – exRNA
November 18, 2017Access to genomes of supercentenarians
November 18, 2017authoera vs googledoc
November 18, 2017Winds of change – Infographics
November 18, 2017Winds of change
https://www.Economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21580446-revolution-taking-place-how-visualise-information-winds-change Good quotes on #InfoGraphics: “Visualization is a continuous spectrum that stretches from statistical graphics to #dataart” + “Data journalism, the idea is that reporters must interrogate both people & databases…to get their information.”
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For that is what data-visualisations are: a blend of the aesthetic and informational. Having one without the other means producing something that is less useful and enjoyable than it might be, argues Nathan Yau, a statistician who runs a blog called FlowingData.com. Visualisation is a whole new medium, he writes in his new book, “Data Points”. It is a “continuous spectrum that stretches from statistical graphics to data art”.
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“Data Points” is a useful primer for those who need to produce infographics. But for those who merely want to appreciate them, two other books fit the bill, both by Guardian journalists.
In recent years the London-based daily newspaper has promoted a new area called “data journalism”. The idea is that reporters must interrogate both people and databases in order to get their
information. Simon Rogers’s “Facts Are Sacred” is a review of the past few years’ worth of this data journalism on the paper’s website. It brings together some of its best projects and explains how they were done.
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