Google Speaks: Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population DATA: Those ubergeeks at Google (can't we go a day without saying or typing Google anymore?) released an interesting paper on observed hard drive failures in their data centers. It's called, aptly enough, Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population. While it doesn't name names and point out which brands are the best and worst -- it does provide a lot of interesting analysis on when the drive is most likely to fail along with the optimal operating performance. Give it a look.

Labels: gear, google, harddrives

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  Strange Maps -- Is there a blog about everything yet? INFO VISUALIZATION: I just found a great new blog called Strange Maps. The title says it all -- give it a look!



Astute readers may notice that I've been deeplinking images on my last few posts. For shame! I know -- it's a nasty practice. Unfortunately I'm sans-Photoshop on this computer and I haven't been able to move the images over and format them correctly. I'm going to try and revisit soon from my home computer and update the links.

Labels: blogs, maps

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  2000 Years and the Spread of Religion INFO VISUALIZATION: This isn't a perfect visualization -- but it's an interesting attempt at showing the spread of today's religions over Eurasia. I'd love to see a more comprehensive look animated as well some day. Kudos again to Wikipedia.

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  The US Interstate Highway System Map by Chris Yates INFO VISUALIZATION: Well, here I am, back from the dead. :-)

Work, work, work and some of my projects (a new source code community wiki, a place to buy historical stock quote data en masse (still being built), and a place for historical price data for consumer goods (still in the early stages)) have been keeping me from blogging for almost a year.

BUT, here I am, to show you a great new map of the US Interstate system. Enjoy!

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