Comments on: Wired UK, July ’09 – Visualizing a Nation’s DNA

By: Wired UK: Barabási Lab and BIG data | blprnt.blg

Wired UK: Barabási Lab and BIG data | blprnt.blg — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:37:55 +0000

[...] been for the two-page infoporn spread that can be found in every issue. I’ve looked at the UK’s National DNA Database, used mined Twitter data to find people’s travel paths, and mapped traffic in some of the [...]

By: Deluxe Gourmet

Deluxe Gourmet — Sun, 09 May 2010 07:24:22 +0000

suuuper beautiful, except did anyone mention that the shape of DNA you used (circular) is unique to bacteria?

By: mooch

mooch — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:13:03 +0000

Blimey. Those images are beautiful, they remind me of fractals which were really popular in my youth. So, what did you conclude from running this? My perception is that there are way too many innocent people on the database and I cannot help but feel that this will lazy policing. I aslo think that this smacks of Big Brother.

By: Aaron K Martin

Aaron K Martin — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:12:51 +0000

This is awesome work. Great job and looking forward to seeing it in print. It’s amazing how visuals really give life to the numbers surrounding the NDNAD.