Awesome Data

TrekTube asked real artificial intelligence to analyze Star Trek’s Lt. Cmdr. Data and other science fiction AIs in a video voiced in the android’s familiar tone. Guided by human-engineered prompts, the large language model explores what Hollywood gets wrong about AI, whether it could pass The Measure of a Man test, and how real neural networks compare to the Borg.

Most forecasts focus on weather stats like temperature, winds, and precipitation. But exurb1a’s forecast takes an all-encompassing approach by predicting what will happen to every living thing on Earth, the Solar System, and throughout the observable universe. A fun watch for data and trivia geeks.

This unique tape lets you mark any surface or object with a unique digital tag. Simply attach a length of Bitrip tape and snap a picture with the companion app, and it will record its location, along with the option to capture notes and a voice recording. It’s great for keeping track of pipes and wiring, as well as item inventories.

(PG-13: Language) You wouldn’t think that weather forecasting would be a very controversial subject. But as John Oliver explains, there’s a tenuous balance between the government agency that provides much US weather data, and private companies, and the battle brewing between useful information and hype.

There’s nothing worse than losing the files stored on your computer and struggling to recover them. Polar Backup provides cloud-based storage that ensures reliable backups and recoveries from your PC or Mac, encrypting your data along the way. Sign up for a lifetime plan today in The Awesomer Shop.

If you look back at how computers have been programmed over the years, the languages used have shuffled around quite a bit. From the early days of Fortran, to the rise of BASIC, to the explosion of Java, PHP, and Python, Data Is Beautiful charted the changing popularity of each major language over more than 50 years.

Whatever business you’re in, it’s important to understand your website traffic and usage patterns. This series of online courses will teach you everything you need to know to pass the official Google Analytics certification exam, and includes dozens of practice questions and answers for you to study.

At first glance, you might think you were looking at some sort of organic lifeform in a petri dish, but these videos are data visualizations of content being shared virally from George Takei’s Facebook page.