January 2012 – Screenshot

Personal Thermostats

My first reaction is that I need one of these wristbands that lets me control the temperature as I walk around a building. Oh yeah, and you can do other gesture controls with it too, but mostly it lets you not be freezing cold all the time. Except, it requires working in a smart building, not to mention a building with a more functional HVAC than I currently have. I am then struck by the fact that this sounds great until hit with the reality that different people have radically different temperature comfort zones. As the only person in the … Continue reading Personal Thermostats

Applying Social Network Analysis

By AMH

There’s a lot to love about this account of how social network analysis was used to illustrate a slumlord conspiracy – it isn’t just a nice example of a real world use of the tools, but the step by step construction of the network is a lovely example of data presentation. A quick and easy read that may become my go-to link to send students when they want to understand what this stuff is our networking course covers if it isn’t about hubs and routers and tcp/ip. [via BoingBoing]