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Database of feathers

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There’s a database of feathers called Featherbase , because of course there is: Featherbase is a working group of German feather scientists and other collectors worldwide who came together with their personal collections and created the biggest and most comprehensive online feather library in the world. Tags: birds , feather.

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Shifting bird populations

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Using data from the crowdsourced database eBird , Harry Stevens mapped the shifts in bird populations for the Washington Post. Tags: birds , eBird , population , Washington Post Be sure to check out the interactive at the end that lets you search the full species list. The scale of this project continues to amaze.

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Simplifying Time Series Analysis for Data Scientists

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Be sure to check out his talk, “ What is a Time-series Database and Why do I Need One? The time series database (TSDB) , however, is still an underutilized tool in the data science community. And retrieving data is straightforward with a query language like SQL where you can filter by value, tag, time range, and more.

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Visual history of Yahoo Pipes

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While RSS was key, Pipes also let users grab other data and feed formats, like Atom, RDF (incorporated into RSS 2.0), and CSV (comma-separated values, a simple database and spreadsheet export format). Tags: Glenn Fleishman , history , Yahoo With Pipes, any user could create entries for any number of data sources.

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Border enforcement data collection

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Details of the database were revealed Thursday in a letter to CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus from Sen. Tags: government , privacy , Washington Post. CBP officials told congressional staff the data is maintained for 15 years. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.),

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Mosaic, a framework for scalable and linked visualization

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From the University of Washington Interactive Data Lab, Mosaic is a research project that aims to make it easier to show a lot of data and make it interactive between views : Mosaic is a framework for linking data visualizations, tables, input widgets, and other data-driven components, while leveraging a database for scalable processing.

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Finding illegal airstrips in Brazil

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Using a combination of satellite imagery, crowdsourced databases, and analyses, The New York Times identified airstrips used for illegal mining in Brazil : To confirm these locations and connect them with illicit mining, Times reporters built a tool to help analyze thousands of satellite images.

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