2012-05-20T10:10:27Z Kevin Cocco Copyright 2012, Kevin Cocco SPHPBLOG John Underkoffler point to the future of UI
- Tech behind Minority Report

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin Demo: Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere

Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration? Mar 2010
- Zoom.it with API, REST, JSON, JS,... check out example: http://http://zoom.it/q5GT or embedded below..
- Nothing terribly new with zooming here are some of my older projects 2005, 2006 and even earlier projects exporting Visio vector network diagrams and writing basic Flash UI... new, Zoom.it not Flash dependent...

]]> http://www.kcocco.com/index.php?entry=entry120323-101218 2012-03-23T00:00:00Z 2012-03-23T00:00:00Z http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/03/planning-big-data.html

Here are some of the areas I am focused on:
page 7: "We're moving beyond an information economy. Information on its own isn't an advantage, anyway. Instead, this is the era of the feedback economy" feedback loop!

page 43: Regarding Google Predication API and their general offerings
" ecosystem development to make their tools more approachable"

page 70: "The agile nature of data science will favor any tool that
permits more interactivity"

page 72: "I've repeatedly heard from data scientists about what they
want most: people who know how to create visualisations"

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2 ft. of snow in 24 hours, 4 ft. storm cycle, about as good as Utah riding gets! Power face shots! ]]> http://www.kcocco.com/index.php?entry=entry120319-152957 2012-03-19T00:00:00Z 2012-03-19T00:00:00Z The World's 7 Most Powerful Data Scientists

Here are all the Twitter or Google Plus feeds I could find:

1 - Larry Page (Google) - https://plus.google.com/106189723444098348646/posts

2 - Jeff Hammerbachner (Cloudera) - https://twitter.com/#!/hackingdata
- DJ Patil (Grey Ventures)- https://twitter.com/#!/dpatil

3 - Sebastian Thrun (Standford) - https://twitter.com/#!/sebastianthrun
- Peter Norvig (Google) - http://norvig.com/ - https://plus.google.com/108640673873589796416/posts

4 - Elizabeth Warren (Senate Mass) - https://twitter.com/#!/elizabethforma

5 - Todd Park (CTO Gov)- https://twitter.com/#!/todd_park

6 - Alex "Sandy" Pentland (MIT) - http://web.media.mit.edu/~sandy/

7 - Hod Lipson (Cornell) - http://web.mae.cornell.edu/lipson/
- Michael Schmidt (Cornell) - https://sites.google.com/a/cornell.edu/schmidt/]]> http://www.kcocco.com/index.php?entry=entry120314-120241 2012-03-14T00:00:00Z 2012-03-14T00:00:00Z
infographic created with visual.ly

I want a Visual.ly API...PLEASE!
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Missed the live event thanks to Clark at Mustache Power Productions I was able to watch....
Robb Kunz gave a great quick startup talk focused to the Utah crowd... at about 2:30 into the video.
Here are some links I liked:
LeanLaunchLab.com Business Model Canvas
Sprint.ly Agile project management, Slick interface + GitHub integration
BoomStartup.com Mentorship-Driven Investment, Utah
Steve Blank Business Canvas Guru, saw him speak at StartupWeekend, need to buy his new book
Accelerato.rs Market place for Accelerators, can apply to may in one place, published terms
AngelList Connecting Angels and Startups
ThisWeekInStartups Web Video show by Jason Calacanis

Startups presented, all solid!
xydo.com Content marketing focus e-mail
implylabs.com Social Stream to product recommendations
GrassWire.com Journalist + crowd "Democratizing the News"
TextMeTix Text messaging ticket sales focus remnant seats sporting events, but other options..


]]> http://www.kcocco.com/index.php?entry=entry120307-091316 2012-03-07T00:00:00Z 2012-03-07T00:00:00Z Proud of Google picking up! "DevRel Engineer +Marc Cohen (Google's Prediction API development expert) forwarded this fantastic web app..."

Here are the direct links to Google Prediction API Paper and the Prediction Demo App
]]> http://www.kcocco.com/index.php?entry=entry120305-114626 2012-03-05T00:00:00Z 2012-03-05T00:00:00Z Great post with R code to query Twitter and visualize tweets and RTs. Here are the examples run for searchTerm='#fusionio OR #fusion-io OR $FIO OR @fusionio'


example 1 - tweets and retweets

example 2 - now colored

example 3 - who retweets alot

example 4 - who retweets who

Here is another great text mining example using R. More to come as I mine & model my FusionIO Datasift capture...
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]]> http://www.kcocco.com/index.php?entry=entry120221-132716 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z CinchTool.com team, sharp group coded backend service, front end, marketing and e-commerce within 2 days! Company started and will continue to run, new round of features coming soon. Over 10k Cinch'd pages within the first week.












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