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Every smartphone user produces more than 20 MB of data collected by her phone’s sensors per day. Now, imagine the sensor data of 2 billion smartphone users worldwide, translated into […]

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If you live in the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific or Australia, you probably are one of 1.76 billion smartphone users. What do you do with your smartphone? You use apps for texting, […]

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Great news! Flipboard has made its service available on the web. You can now browse our curated news on wearable tech, smartwatches, The Quantified Self, and the Internet of Things […]

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Data is the new media. Thus the postulates of our Slow Media Manifesto should be applicable on Big Data, too. Slow Data in this sense is meaningful data, relevant for […]

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Data storytelling, data journalism, and even data fiction – since the advent of Big Data, we find data more and more as tool of narratives. With pattern recognition, exploratory data […]

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We’re excited to have won the startup pitch at Germany’s biggest startup conference – Bits&Pretzels! We’re still partying – therefore please don’t try to contact us during the next days […]

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In the US, smartphone and tablet displays have replaced the TV set as screen number one. Meanwhile, not only the time spent on mobile devices has become longer on mobile […]

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As reply to our “Call for Data Fiction”, Benedikt Koehler has applied the BreakoutDetection packege for R on our sample data set. Here you see his findings with the code: […]

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Since 1967 the Consumer Electronics Show CES in Las Vegas has been the display for the latest products in electronic entertainment. Every first week in Januar the big brands disclose […]

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What Is A Private Key? Datarella Blockchain Bites #1

"Not Your Keys - Not Your Bitcoin!" Maybe you came across this quote from the Bitcoin advocate Andreas Antonopoulos. With "keys" he is referring to the private keys, which allow users to transfer bitcoins and other crypto assets. This is the first post of Datarella's...

Ask Datarella: What is a Security Model

Ask Datarella: What is a Security Model

When people start talking about blockchain they often mix up the security models with consensus algorithms. If you've ever scratched your head when these terms start getting thrown, around this post is for you. Every IT system has some type of security model. Security...