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 Esri announces 2018 Storytelling with Maps contest Story maps provide a dynamic, interactive way to combine maps, text, and multimedia content to tell stories about neighborhoods, communities, nations, and the world using the common visual language of geography. The digital athletes of the future: Earning $1.6 million behind a keyboard The e-sports craze itself brought…

A brief history of the scatter plot—data visualization’s greatest invention Scatter plots are glorious. They allow us to quickly understand relationships that would be nearly impossible to recognize in a table or a different type of chart. Michael Friendly and Daniel Denis, psychologists and historians of graphics, call the scatter plot the most “generally useful…

5G and IoT: A Beautiful Noise “5G will intelligently understand the demands of users in real-time, dynamically allocating network resources depending on whether the connected device needs voice or data connectivity.” How Much Impact Do Starchitects Have on a City’s Economy After Frank Gehry’s bold Guggenheim design helped turn around Bilbao’s economy in Spain, researchers…

Japanese Wine Meets Big Data The Okunota Winery is at the cutting edge, using information technology to manage grape-growing using sensors and wireless networks. 2017 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture Opens This Week in Shenzhen UABB is thrilled to host more than 200 award-winning exhibitors from 25 countries to share their perspectives on diversity and urban…

The Extreme Geographic Inequality of High-Tech Venture Capital The Bay Area—that is, San Francisco and Silicon Valley—currently accounts for nearly 45 percent of total venture capital investment in the entire United States.  Boston, New York, and Washington, comprises another third. MAPPING STUDENT DEBT: how borrowing for college affects the nation In this interactive map, they compared…

Lines of Innovation – Part 1 Lines can be sources of inspiration for innovation in terms of physical lines (queues, roads, structures, etc.) as well as virtual lines (borders, latitude/longitude, etc.).  Using GIS to Study Gentrification The balance between urban development and gentrification is not straightforward, as seen in San Francisco and to some extent…

Research: Legal Marijuana and Gay Marriage Have Been Good for U.S. Innovation States that implemented the social liberalization policies subsequently experienced a significant increase of 5% to 6% in their innovation output. For ideas to flow and collide, the people who hold those ideas need to meet, mingle, talk, and share. Digital agriculture: what’s all…

Inside Jeff Bezos’ private conference for a new “golden age” This was Bezos’ third year of MARS, a private, three-day collection of presentations and conversations on machine learning, automation, robotics, and space exploration. This Is the Personal Data that Facebook Collects—And Sometimes Sells To prevent third party apps from accessing your data, you can head…

3D Printing comes of age in US industrial manufacturing 3D-printed parts and products are quickly making their way into end products—from a printed car to athletic shoes to a printed NASA rocket engine. How Programming Affects Your Brain: 3 Big Truths According to Science Scientists have recently started studying the brains of programmers and have…

Think 2018: In 5 years, quantum computing will be mainstream, predicts IBM IBM Research, that is betting big on AI, blockchain, lattice cryptography and quantum computing. Digital dystopia: tech slavery and the death of privacy – podcast Jordan Erica Webber asks whether our digital selves are owned by tech firms in a new form of slavery? The Surgeon Who…