Amazon Web Services Developer Community : Finding Similar Items with Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Python, and Hadoop Streaming Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. It utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic […]

http://stats.oecd.org/OECDregionalstatistics/ (tags: visualization infoviz oecd) Tools: ncva: Linköping University GAV Flash addresses the following generic Geovisual Analytics tasks: * Shorten development time by utilising already developed and assessed components; * Design based on cognitive and perceptual principles; * Appropriate for dynamic multiple-linked views; Visual space-time and multivariate exploration tools; * Component-embedded interactions including brush, pick, […]

mschrag@github speedlimit is a Leopard preference pane for limiting your network bandwidth to one of a couple different speeds—768k DSL, Edge, 3G, and Dialup. This is really handy for testing your iPhone app under normal Edge network conditions in the iPhone Simulator. The new version allows you to restrict the slowdown to only a specific […]