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Terms like “Big Data” and “the Cloud” have been thoroughly assimilated into the 21st century lexicon, but in many ways the things they name remain distant and abstract—where is the cloud, what does it look like, and what exactly is the big data that we store there?

Daniel Sims is taking a data-driven approach to parenting. With a daughter on the way, he’s building a device that will measure a slew of environmental factors to determine how they affect an infant’s sleep patterns.

Natasha Dzurny, a recent alumna of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program investigated attitudes surrounding personal information, and identified what she described as “a taboo around data collection, especially with products that collect personal data—how much we exercise, where we spend money, who we spend time with.”

Check out this fitness dashboard project using Temboo.