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  • Where Hipsters Eat, Visualised

    Where Hipsters Eat, Visualised

    You probably turn to Yelp to look for single, stand-out restaurants and businesses. But there’s a lot of data inside all those reviews, which can make for fascinating analysis — letting you spot trends across geographic locations.


  • The US Facial Recognition Database Hiding In Plain Sight

    The US Facial Recognition Database Hiding In Plain Sight

    It’s only natural to be a little skeeved out by the idea that the government is slurping up your private data behind the scenes, but there’s a very public piece of your data being collected as well: the look on your face. There’s already a national database of over 120 million faces in the US,…