After a looong absence, here is the latest episode of the FTD podcast. This time, we talk to Peter Grensund and Jens Finnäs, who write data-driven news stories at the Stockholm arm of Journalism++ (J++). Among many other things, Jens has a great resource site (sorry, Swedish only) about data journalism and Peter has won a prestigious award for a “m…

In this episode of our podcast, we shift our focus from the “big data” themes in episodes 1-3 to personal data and self-tracking. We talked to Niklas Laninge, founder of Psykologifabriken (“The Psychology Factory”) and COO of Hoa’s Tool Shop, which are both relatively new startups based in Stockholm and which use applied psychology in innovate ways…

In this third episode of the Follow the Data podcast we talk to Paco Nathan, Data Scientist at Concurrent Inc. Podcast link: http://s3.amazonaws.com/follow_the_data/FollowTheData_03_Podcast.mp3 Paco’s blog: http://ceteri.blogspot.se/ The running time is about one hour. Paco’s internet connection died just as we were about to start the podcast so he…

In the second episode of the FTD podcast, we talked to big data consultant Johan Pettersson (his company is actually called Big Data AB; what a catch to be able to obtain that name despite the Swedish trademark regulations!) and Thomas Hartwig, CTO of King.com, a company that produces “skill games” where you can win money by being more skillful tha…

We have made available the first episode of the Follow the Data podcast! Hope you enjoy it. Podcast link: Follow The Data | Episode 1 – Gavagai! Gavagai! This first episode, as has been mentioned before on this blog, is about a Stockholm startup company, Gavagai, which provides a technology platform called Ethersource. We interviewed the company’s …