items for 12.29.2007
December 29, 2007- Visualization of names and words used by Presidential candidates - O’Reilly Radar
The New York Times has a really interesting Circos/Clusterball style visualization of the names used by US presidential candidates to refer to opponents in the debates preceding the Iowa caucuses…If you’re a fan of visualization (ala Edward Tufte), check this out. Very well done.
- Thrudb - faster, cheaper than SimpleDB - igvita.com
Highly scalable document-oriented database ideal for deployment on virtual (Amazon EC2+S3) or dedicated infrastructure. Differs from SimpleDB in that it uses CLucene for full-text search and memcached for speed and scalability.
(tags: thrudb)
