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Telling the story of people’s lives – Strata+Hadoop, Feb 15, San Jose
We can draw a colorful picture of people’s everyday lives from the data we collect via smartphones. To tell the data-story, we need to translate the raw measurements into meaningful events, like “driving a car”, “strolling in a mall”, or even more intimate, like...
Wearable Data Hack Munich 2015
Today, we would like to announce something special. Something we can’t wait to take place and until mid June it’s going to be tough to sit tight. Please, feel invited to our Wearable Data Hack Munich 2015! The Wearable Data Hack Munich 2015 is the first hack day on...
The Datarella World Map Of Behavior
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 realtime human behavior, shown on a global map. That is the vision of the Datarella...
The Datarella Data Timeline
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, social networking, gaming, etc. And you produce data. Lots of data. Every move you...
Our Flipboard on Wearable Tech is now on the Web, too.
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 in your browser, too: flipboard.com/qs-socially-relevant-technology
Slow Data
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 society, driving creativity and scientific thinking. Slow Data is beautiful data. Read my new text...
Data is the new media
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 analytics, and especially with data visualization, data has re-centered from the...
Datarella Wins Bits&Pretzels Startup Pitch
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 😉 Your Team Datarella
Second Screen
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 than on the tube -primarily the intensity of using mobiles, the attention, people dedicate to...
“Analyze Smartphone Sensor Data with R” – Blog post in reply to our “Call for Data Fiction”
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: http://beautifuldata.net
We are the content!
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 their secret products, that will be stacked on the shelves - or rather: put on the...
Behavioral Analytics with Smartphone Data
Here is the video of our talk at Strata+Hadoop World Conference 2014 in Barcelona (Courtesy O'Reilly Media, Inc.). The Strata + Hadoop World in Barcelona 2014 Complete Video Compilation is also available at O'Reilly's - and highly recommended. Here are my slides: