Tag: data

• Analytics are reshaping fashion’s old-school instincts

  February 14, 2019

  When Detroit-based luxury goods brand Shinola began working on its new Vinton watch, the team designed with a woman in mind, but testing the product through analytics platform MakerSights, which… more ›

• Pornhub Is the Kinsey Report of Our Time

  December 15, 2018

  Pornhub Is the Kinsey Report of Our Time Waking up on a Sunday morning, I received a text about what happened after I left the previous night’s party. “Everyone got… more ›

• Porn sites collect more user data than Netflix or Hulu. This is what they do with it.

  December 15, 2018

  Porn sites collect more user data than Netflix or Hulu. This is what they do with it. The biggest and perhaps best source of data about what people like to… more ›

• Amazon has everything it needs to make massively popular algorithm-driven fiction

  November 17, 2018

  Amazon has everything it needs to make massively popular algorithm-driven fiction Amazon is the Voldemort of book events—”our friends in Seattle,” the ominous euphemism goes. The Seattle-based company is famous… more ›

• How To Improve Your Design Process With Data-Based…

  April 23, 2018

  How To Improve Your Design Process With Data-Based Personas » The first step in creating data-driven personas is similar to the typical persona creation process. Write down your team’s hypotheses… more ›

• Dictatorships and Data Standards

  April 17, 2018

  Dictatorships and Data Standards » Since the 19th century, government statistics have been central to our sense of shared social reality. Is that going away? more ›

• Interfaces become queries. Data will be…

  April 12, 2018

  “Interfaces become queries. Data will be distributed across highly diverse interfaces, so sustainable apps need declarative contracts instead of custom data requests.” – Paradigm shifts for the decentralized Web |… more ›

• new-aesthetic: Strava Heatmap – 1 billion…

  January 28, 2018

  new-aesthetic: Strava Heatmap - 1 billion athletic activities by users of the Strava tracking app, visualised. From top: Diego Garcia (British Indian Ocean Territory), Guantanamo Bay (Cuba), and Baghdad’s Green Zone… more ›

• Datagasm

  November 23, 2017

  Datagasm » It was only a couple of decades ago, before WiFi or the static death shriek of dial-up modems, that fetishes were hard-won secrets. more ›

• Trump Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself

  January 26, 2017

  Trump Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself » Read the information carefully and ask your doctor or pharmacist if you have any questions. The Antidote Writers Collective seeks to… more ›