WP Pocket link collection: January with 4 links

A Sneak Preview: Big Data for Chimps, The Book: I’ve been reading Flip’s book, Big Data for Chimps: A Guide to Massive Scale Data Processing, available for pre-order now from O’Reilly. While I’m no data engineer, I am able to follow along. – Tags: flip kromer, big data for chimps, o’reilly,big data for chimps – http://blog.infochimps.com/2013/01/17/sneak-preview-big-data-chimps-book/

Visual Ethnography: Visual Ethnography Call for Papers Visual Ethnography è una rivista peer-reviewed in doppio cieco che pubblica studi e ricerche in forma scritta, visiva o audiovisiva da una prospettiva antropologica sull’uso delle immagini e dei media audiovisivi nelle pratiche socio-culturali e nella r – Tags: visual ethnography, visual anthropology; visual culture; ethnography; multimedia anthropology; hypermedia; ethnographic photography; ethnographic film – http://www.vejournal.org/

Web Scraping Using PHP and jQuery: I was asked by a friend to write code that would scrape a DLP website’s content of letters to use in an academic study (the website’s copyright allows for the non-commercial use of the data). – http://tdbowman.com/wp/2013/01/19/web-scraping-using-php-and-jquery/

Facebook is breaking these three records with its IPO: Facebook’s IPO is being heralded in rather vague terms as the biggest tech IPO in history. But this initial public offering actually does break a few records, and not just in the tech sector. – by Jolie O’Dell – Tags: advertising, facebook ipo – http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/16/record-breaking-facebook-ipo/