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The rise of big data has brought personal data collections, such as customer registers, mobile communication data, and health records, into the interest of the whole business world. When viewed as big data - often called the new oil - personal data is considered as a kind of natural resource,... [Read More]

Data science is spreading throughout business sectors and research fields. Computational social sciences is a field that “leverages the capacity to collect and analyze data at a scale that may reveal patterns of individual and group behaviors”. This is highly interesting and not too far from many business-oriented data... [Read More]

The first independent think tank in Finland, Demos Helsinki, turned 10 years last week (more in this post in Fnnish). I have had the pleasure of working with this great group of talented and insightful people, and I wanted to congratulate them on their anniversary. So I made... [Read More]

I was exploring ways to visualize my Twitter history, and ended up creating this interactive streamgraph of my 20 most used hashtags in Twitter: The graph shows how my Twitter activity has varied a lot. The top three... [Read More]

My old website and blog theme had been feeling kind of outdated for a while. When I bumped into the nice, mobile-friendly Beautiful Jekyll theme by Dean Attali, it was clear that I needed to change my site. After a busy summer with my family I finally found... [Read More]