I came across this interesting blog looking for a JavaScript implementation of the Jenks algorithm for calculating natural breaks. Found an excellent implementation, but also an interesting look into how some Scientists (mis)treat history: Apparently the existing implementations were all based on a first implementation in Fortran IV, which was uncommented, and the original paper by Jenks was never publicly published...!
Specially selected illustration for our students (and maybe for some colleagues... ;-)
One illustration worth more than 1000 words (original link)
A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social networking websites.
A video obtained by the Guardian reveals how an "extreme-scale analytics" system created by Raytheon, the world's fifth largest defence contractor, can gather vast amounts of information about people from websites including Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare.
Read the Guardian article, and watch the 4 minutes demo video here:
Guardian article on cyber-intelligence
Rolf
