April 30, 2012
by Jeff Beckham on Wired
For as long as basketball has been played, it’s been played with five positions. Today they are point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward and center. A California data geek sees 13 more hidden among them, with the power to help even the Charlotte Bobcats improve their lineup and win more games.
Muthu Alagappan is a Stanford University senior, a basketball fan and an intern at Ayasdi, a data visualization company. Ayasdi takes huge amounts of info like tumor samples and displays it in interactive shapes that highlight patterns like genetic markers that indicate a likelihood of ovarian cancer. It’s called topological data analysis, and it can be applied to sports, too.
That is exactly what Alagappan did.
The Submission by Amy Walkman
Seattle Times Review by M.L. Johnson
Having chosen a winning design for the World Trade Center memorial, a jury in New York opens the envelope with the architect's name and gets a shock: He is Muslim.
Ten years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, former New York Times reporter Amy Waldman takes a tough look at how the jury divided the nation, despite calls for unity and surface expressions of tolerance. Her debut novel is a sharp work with complex characters and an unflinching skepticism about human motivation. Waldman recognizes the tragedy of 9/11 without indulging in sentimentality.
Her jury has only one family member on it: the beautiful, rich, Harvard-educated lawyer Claire Burwell. The young widow captured national attention with an angry rebuttal of allegations that 9/11 families were milking the system for compensation money. Having seen Claire on television, the governor appointed her to the jury in the hope that her late husband's art collection was an indicator of his wife's taste as well.
Having manipulated the other jurors' pity and survivors' guilt to ensure her choice wins the competition, Claire initially is the architect's strongest supporter. Her liberal husband wouldn't hold the architect's religion against him, she says. Her art-loving husband would want the design to stand on its own merits.
But Claire gradually turns on its creator, her doubts about his religion and dislike of his reticence eating away at her as she struggles with loneliness and the fading memory of her husband.
Seattle Times Review by M.L. Johnson
Having chosen a winning design for the World Trade Center memorial, a jury in New York opens the envelope with the architect's name and gets a shock: He is Muslim.
Ten years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, former New York Times reporter Amy Waldman takes a tough look at how the jury divided the nation, despite calls for unity and surface expressions of tolerance. Her debut novel is a sharp work with complex characters and an unflinching skepticism about human motivation. Waldman recognizes the tragedy of 9/11 without indulging in sentimentality.
Her jury has only one family member on it: the beautiful, rich, Harvard-educated lawyer Claire Burwell. The young widow captured national attention with an angry rebuttal of allegations that 9/11 families were milking the system for compensation money. Having seen Claire on television, the governor appointed her to the jury in the hope that her late husband's art collection was an indicator of his wife's taste as well.
Having manipulated the other jurors' pity and survivors' guilt to ensure her choice wins the competition, Claire initially is the architect's strongest supporter. Her liberal husband wouldn't hold the architect's religion against him, she says. Her art-loving husband would want the design to stand on its own merits.
But Claire gradually turns on its creator, her doubts about his religion and dislike of his reticence eating away at her as she struggles with loneliness and the fading memory of her husband.
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