Tag Archives: Business

[paper] – Information and communication technologies in the life of university freshmen: An analysis of change

18 May

Ein weiterer Artikel mit dem ich mich im Zuge der Lehrveranstaltung “Technology Enhanced Learning“, abgehalten an der Technischen Universität Graz (TU Graz), beschäftigt habe, ist: “Information and communication technologies in the life of university freshmen: An analysis of change“ [1]. Die Studie versucht Antworten auf die folgenden Fragen zu finden: What is the self-perception of ICT competences [...]

A Video Introduction to Web3.0 (The Semantic Web?)

10 May

Today I found a very interesting video discussing the term of the Semantic Web, not only in a technical way. Have a look at the following video: What do you think? Do you think the Semantic Web is going to happen as many people think? Related articles by Zemanta Web 3.0, The Movie [Video] (techcrunch.com) [...]

Twitter’s use of Cassandra, Hadoop, Pig and HBase for highly distributed Data Processing and Analysis

6 May

Kevin Weil, Analytics Lead at Twitter recently gave a presentation on Twitter’s use of Cassandra, Pig and HBase. Specially interesting is how Twitter uses Hadoop and Pig in their data analysis process. (via @kevinweil) Another great presentation from Tobias Ivarsson gives an overview on NoSQL: (via @thobe)

Pivot – Great Visualization Tool developed by Microsoft Live Labs

23 Nov

This time I discovered a great application developed by Microsoft Live Labs called Pivot. Pivot enables users to discover huge information spaces by different visual filtering options. You are able to look at hundred thousands of information space entities such as pictures, … and filter these in different ways (zoom in/out, create links between different [...]

[video] – User Interface Fundamentals for Programmers

8 Oct

Recently I have found a great video demonstrating the user interface design fundamentals every programmer should know. Check out the video, it is really interesting! UI Fundamentals for Programmers by Ryan Singer from ChicagoRuby on Vimeo. (via Smashing Magazine) Related articles by Zemanta GUI Design by schematic visualization (slideshare.net) Advances in mouse interface design video [...]