Boundary Product Update: Trends Dashboard Now Available
Boundary implement week-on-week trend display. Pity they use silly “giant number” dashboard boxes showing comparisons of the current datapoint with the previous week’s datapoint; there’s no indication of smoothing being applied, and “giant number” dashboards are basically useless anyway compared to a time-series graph, for unsmoothed time-series data. Also, no prediction bands. :(
(tags: boundary time-series tsd prediction metrics smoothing dataviz dashboards)
ESB Networks | Power Check | Service Interruptions Map
real-time service outage information on a map, from Ireland’s power network
Project Voldemort at Gilt Groupe: When Failure Isn’t an Option [slides]
Geir Magnusson explains how Gilt Groupe is using Project Voldemort to scale out their e-commerce transactional system. The initial SQL solution had to be replaced because it could not handle the transactional spikes the site is experiencing daily due to its particular way of selling their inventory: each day at noon. Magnusson explains why they chose Voldemort and talks about the architecture.
via Filippo(tags: via:filippo database architecture nosql data voldemort gilt-groupe ops storage presentations)
The full timeline of Savita Halappanavar’s mistreatment
a comment on Dr. Jen Gunter’s blog puts it all together
(tags: timeline savita abortion malpractice ireland medicine fail)
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No holds barred:
Speaking today, spokesman Charles Stanley-Smith said; “This idea is insane. This area has suffered from dumping due to a lack of enforcement – yet the council now propose to effectively withdraw services altogether. As numerous studies such as ‘the broken window hypothesis’ indicate, where a small problem is left un-tackled it is likely to become far worse rather than better. In other words, rather than increase enforcement to solve the problem, Dublin City Council is going to remove enforcement. How will this deal with the problem? Imagine if that logic were applied to crime; would the removal of police services in an area help resolve criminal behaviour – or increase it? The answer is obvious.”
(tags: an-taisce environment cleaning dublin ireland dcc rubbish trash society d1)