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Latest Posts
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Great Elephant Census Results Are In – Vulcan
Vulcan announces: In 2014, Paul G. Allen and our team at Vulcan set out to count Africa’s savanna elephants, an effort known as The Great Elephant Census (GEC). The Great Elephant Census is the first pan-African survey of elephants using standardized data collection and validation methods. Conceived to fill critical gaps in data by providing reliable
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Why Can’t it be (Christmas) Tax Season All Year Round?
With the joys and boys of summer fresh upon us (in the Northern Hemisphere), it spoils the fun to bring up taxes. Summer is time off from school and most of society either joins in or gets the heck out of the way. So why bring up taxes? There are better things to do! Unlike Christmas,
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Why Haven’t We Cured Cancer?
Why We Haven’t Cured Cancer My mother died of breast cancer in 1989. She was 44. Ironically, she was considered a “survivor” because she lived for five years after diagnosis. She was a teacher and during those five years, she never missed a day of school. She saved the summers in between for chemo, two
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The Hard Is What Makes It Great
What’s the Big Data Idea is Bringing Big Data to the People. In the past couple of months, I’ve been working on where I should go with this blog.I’ve come up with these thought and these inspirations and I’m looking for those to connect. I’m passionate about Big Data. I believe Big Data will change
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It’s YOUR Fault!! Big Data Takes the Blame
It’s your fault. No it’s the other person’s fault. It’s the guy who cut you off in traffic. It’s “customer service.” It’s the government. It’s the weather. It’s global warming. It’s the way things go. A tree falls in the forest. A roof falls in. A business fails. A stock market crashes. A disease
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Forbes Report on Top 10 Hot Big Data Technologies
I love a good graphic and I couldn’t stop with just pinterest to talk about this Forrester Research graphic from a Forbes article by Gil Press on the Top 10 Hot Big Data Technologies. I love the “play”, “fast forward” and “pause” icon – fantastic imagery for data points. The swanky ecosystem radii are a
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What exactly is the Internet of Things (IoT)
What exactly is the Internet of Things (IoT) info graphic
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Who is Betting $25 Million on the IoT? Who will be left behind?
Marc Andreessen is betting $25million on the Internet of Things (IoT) becoming a big thing. His famous ability to forecast the evolution of emerging technology weaves a picture of sensors embedded in walls and doors and doorknobs. It makes today’s humble offerings – the likes of remote operation of your house security and appliances or
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Predicting the Future … Past and Present (?)
Ahhhh … to see into the future. Makes me wish I’d bought Google at $10, if it even started that low. I would’ve bet a bigger spread on the Broncos. I would wait to buy insurance at the precise moment before I need it. Big Data fuels predictive analytics in ways that are changing how we
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How to Change a Business Process from Two Years to Five Minutes
Joel Selanikio explains how he uses the cloud and Big Data to solve world health issues in this 2014 Ted Talk.
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What is Big Data Doing in the Congo (with little cell coverage & no power)
How Geospacial Information is protecting indigenous cultures while allowing economic development.
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Humanitarian Robotics and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Source: Humanitarian Robotics and the Threat of a Jobless Future
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Three BIG Things BIG DATA is NOT, Nor Likely to Ever Be
Three things that Big Data is not, nor likely to ever be.
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Better voting decisions – there’s an app for that
Better voting decisions – there’s an app for that.
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The Fantastic and the Functional: Two Perspectives on IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) is different things to different people. To someone a bit more … inspired … it is a fantastic stellar journey into the possible. For others, IoT is a bit more functional. Madhu Murgia reports on two viewpoints of where IoT is going.
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Wants and Needs – The Heart of the Matter Still Matters
Upworthy video about business making coats for the homeless that become sleeping bags.
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A Tale of Two Cities – Actually the Same City – Mogadishu
Ted Talk by Mohammed Ali on entrepreneurship and Al Shabab in Somalia.
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How to tell if someone’s telling the truth
Amy Cuddy explains how body language can give away a liar.
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What’s Wrong? Or going to be? Big Data Predicting Health Issues
Reblog of Rick Delgato’s DataFloq post Predicting and Preventing Health Issues with Big Data.
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What Does Your Medical Record Say About You? (and who is reading it?)
Big Data Health Records conceptually provide a more robust personal health information capture and analysis.
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Santa’s Big Data Strategic Initiatives Plan
What does Santa’s Strategic Plan Initiatives look like? Matt Davies of Splunk
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What Does it Take? Whom To Hire in the Data Industry
Datacamp info graphic explaining the different roles and capabilities of employment in the data industry.
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World Bank Using UAVs for Disaster Risk Reduction in Tanzania
Data capture. This reblog has a fantastic video explaining the extreme detail of massive data collection. Low cost for high Return On Investment. This data set can be infused in a Data Lake to find signal in the noise such as relief for traffic and relief for flooding. The Data Lake can be tapped for
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What R U Looking At? Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality (AR) is already sliding into daily life, but what is AR and what potential does it have in context with Big Data?
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Elephant(s) In the Room – Big Data Elephant Conservation Info Graphic
Info graphic for elephant conservation utilizing Big Data. Follow up to Elephant(s) in the Room – Just How Many Are There?
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List of Open Data Portals from Around the World by DataPortals.org
Big Data and Open Source fit together nicely for the upcoming meet up of the Brussels Data Science Community. Be there or be small and closed.
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The Elephant(s) In the Room – Just How Many Are There?
Counting is another example of Big Data capability. Just how many elephants are there in Africa? Big Data Elephant Census challenges poaching in order to count elephants in context with why does it matter anyway.
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How Twitter Feels The Earth Move
Reblog of Twitter post on how the US Geological Survey teamed up with Twitter to provide better fidelity and timeliness into earthquake data.
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Using Computer Vision to Analyze Aerial Big Data from UAVs During Disasters
Big Data expert Patrick Meier provides an excellent explanation of how Big Data can be leveraged for disaster relief. He discusses just enough technical detail so you can appreciate the challenges and yet still understand the premise.
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Why Doesn’t He Call? Trends in mobile devices
Reblog of Simon Khalaf, SVP Publishing Products on Yahoo Developer Network.
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Scared of Start Ups? Big Data Job Expert Advice
Info graphic explaining the pros and cons of Big Data jobs in start ups and corporate. Interpretation of Matt Reaney’s blog post on DataFloq “Where Should I Work in Big Data?”
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Thinking Small – IBM’s “Star qualities of successful mobile development projects”
IBM provides a pitiful info graphic on successful mobile app projects. Developer Economics provides a much more robust insight to what people want to know about mobile app development.
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Got Data? The Oracle (Google) Serves It Up
Google’s public data has a vast and visual world of data waiting for you to explore – free of charge. Bring Big Data to the People.
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Final Thoughts on Big Data Body Sizing – Info graphic
Final Thoughts on Big Data Body Sizing Concept.
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Fit or Fat? Big Data Body Sizing Explained
Big Data Body Sizing concept of Big Data for weight and health management.
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The Haves and Have Nots – Maybe and Maybe Not
Ted Talk by Hans Rosling of global population data visualizations.
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Fit or Fat? What’s YOUR Problem?
Big Data addresses overweight and obese issue. Postulates why diet and exercise aren’t cutting it.
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The Data Starts With You
Ted Talk by Ben Wellington explaining uses of open source data in New York City.
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How to Encrypt Data in the Cloud to Stop Mischievous Hackers
Datafloq post on data encryption for cloud services.
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China’s Government Will Embed Police In Its Largest Tech Firms
Many a behemoth corporation has been hacked for personal information. Recently OPM was struck not once but twice. The number one suspect is China. What is China’s take on internet privacy?
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What is unicity & why you need to know
Unicity is the statistical term for measuring anonymity of data.
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Five “Shoulds” for Data Driven Decision Making
Repost of Medium on Designing Data-Driven Interfaces.
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Data Scientist or Data Analyst: What Do You Know?
I’ve done deliberate and contingency planning in the military using “things you know, things you don’t know, and things you don’t know you don’t know”. I’ve not seen it to describe data science versus analytics, but this is an excellent parable that explains the dark and the light and the grey in between.
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Personal Health In The Digital Age
$300 BILLION price tag for non-adherence to prescription drugs? I’m not sure what that means. Who pays the price? Is it the consumer for a drug they didn’t take? Or the government or insurance?
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Fatigue Science Lets Pro Sports Teams Track Their Athletes’ Sleep
How well did you sleep last night? The NFL wants to know. Well, actually they want to know about their players. Sleep has been understood as part of a healthy routine for some time, but now quantifying the quality is a new grade of capability. Some NFL teams want to sleep to be a game
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China now has more stock traders than Communist Party members
China is a Big Data market that I haven’t explored yet. This blog post reminds me there are so many more facets and possibilities in a really Big Data world. China now has more stock traders than Communist Party members.
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HIRE ME! In praise of “light quants” and “analytical translators”
Great article on the seam of quantitative analysis and decision making. HIRE ME FOR YOUR ANALYTICAL TRANSLATION!! (NO really, I’d be great.) In praise of “light quants” and “analytical translators”. In praise of “light quants” and “analytical translators” Short Takes…on Analytics A blog by Tom Davenport, independent senior advisor to Deloitte Analytics It would be
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New Process Can Print Stretchy Electronics Onto Your Clothes
An update on wearable technology. Sensors that adhere to the skin and transmit their intelligence are not so far away … Researchers at the University of Tokyo have created a single-step process to print conductive material on cloth, allowing manufacturers to build stretchable wearables that can test vital signs like heart rate and muscle contraction.
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Using the Internet of Things to detect asset failures before they occur
IBM repost of Internet of Things (IoT) and big business sensing.
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Top 5 Data Science Masters Programs
Kind of like the stock market where it’s AMAZING to buy low and sell high, picking a profitable degree can be a matter of being in the right place and the right time. The selling point of this blog post is that we all could use continuing education to benefit from the data world around
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What Did You Say? Barbie Wants to Know ;)
Hello Barbie is criticized by child advocacy group Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, but she actually is a child’s example of today’s privacy world.
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What Can Be Done About Big Data Privacy? PCAST Recommends
Infor graphic on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) 5 recommendations for policy in regard to Big Data and privacy of information.
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Big Data and Privacy: Reporting to President Obama
Summary of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science & Technology in regard to Big Data and Privacy.
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The Quick and the Strong? Where is your Privacy
Bruce Schneier’s TedX talk on internet privacy and the power of distributed and organized entities.
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Ready or not … your privacy is already gone
Privacy in the Information Age. Strata+Hadoop World conference 2015 talk by Julia Angwin.
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Where DOES the time go? Rescuetime
Rescuetime is an app that captures your computer activity metadata.
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Pen to paper – Quantified Self Visualized – gyrosco.pe
Gyrosco.pe is a quantified self product that aggregates personal data and presents a visualization.
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The Data Lake: Half Empty or Half Full?
Repost of a great article by Darren Cunningham vice president of marketing at SnapLogic.
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Quantified Self – How, When, Where, How Much … But Why?
The Quantified Self is a concept that is evolving: term, methodology, movement.
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What the heck is the Internet thinking?
Anna Vital of Funders and Founders created an interactive info graphic of top media stories.
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Wearables Data Analytics: How Now Brown Cow
Wearables have been around for animals for some times, but the data analytics have improved greatly.
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O’Reilly SOLID Conference: Hardware, Software & IoT
O’Reilly Media’s Solid Conference: hardware, software and the Internet of Things (IoT), to be held June 23-25, 2015, in San Francisco.
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Do you have cancer? Check … while you’re waiting for the bus
Nokia Sensing X Prize Grand Prize Winner DNA Medicine Institute has developed blood testing for hundreds of markers from a single pin prick.
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What’s on (or under) Your skin? Bio-sensing wearables
Biosensor wearables are already available in several styles. Biosensor wearables will continue to become more robust, adding to a Big Data health capability.
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Does your Doctor Know It’s Safe to Take That? Big Data Replies
Friday’s post contended that scientific method has many holes in its application. Ben Goldacre’s “Battling Bad Science” Ted Talk explains one facet of this concept. Big Data addresses: Why should the ancient practice of scientific method be questioned? AUTHORITY. As individuals in society, we hold others in regard for accomplishments that give them authority, such as
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Does your Doctor Know It’s Safe to Take That?
How authority and the scientific method effect the perception of drug efficacy and dangers.
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How The Apple Watch And iPhone 6 Plus Might Flip Your Mobile Computing Habits
The iWatch continues to make headlines as its launch date bumps downstream as well. Here’s more thoughts on what MIGHT happen when it actually arrives.
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Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT)
Datafloq infographic on Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT).
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Amazon refunded my money – when I didn’t ask for it
Amazon refunds money for poor quality streaming video – when the customer didn’t ask for the money back.
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Well Deserved: What You’d Expect from a _________ Company
I love this poke not just at Tech Funding but also the fluffy marketing we’ve come to expect from medications, or cars, or insurance or … Apple 😉
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March Madness: $15,000 for Best Bracketology
For the second year, Kaggle hosts the mother of bracketology contests – March Machine Learning Mania – with a purse of $15,000 sponsored by HP.
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ONLINE DATING: A Lesson in Big Data Volume
Online dating is a great example of the Volume principle of Big Data. Sharif Corinaldi hacked online dating to find a new girlfriend.
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Who are the Digital Stall Out or Stand Out Countries?
Harvard Business Review rates and ranks the world’s economies for digital capacity – stand out, stall out, break out, watch out.
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Big Data and Cyber Security – Answers You Might Want to Know
Upcoming webinar on cyber security hosted by Sqrrl
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Jeffrey Heer Explores Data Visualization for Better Decision Making
Better Decision Making Capability by Exercising Data Skepticism Jeffrey Heer explores how better data visualization tools create better questions and better decision making capability.
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What Can Big Data Do for YOU?
What Can Big Data Do for YOU? 9 Generic Big Data Use Cases to Apply in Your Organization
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Big Data Implementation in the Middle
Digital age techies come from an open source world. Middle and top managers are used to silos. Addressing this difference is imperative to Big Data implementation.
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4 Top Reasons Big Data Implementation Projects Fail
4 Top Reasons Big Data Implementation Projects Fail
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Go BIG – How to Begin using Big Data with a new Data Strategy
How to Begin with Big Data – Part 3 – Go Big. Changing the organization’s entire data strategy.
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Go Safe(r) – How to Begin Using Big Data with Part of your Organization
Part 2 of Beginning with Big Data in your Organization – Go Safe(r).
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Big Data is not JUST for Data Scientists and Experts
Bring Big Data to the People. Big Data isn’t just for IT geeks; everyone can understand it and use it.
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How to Begin with Big Data in Your Organization
Part 1 of 3 for implementing Big Data in your organization.
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Apple Tops Smartphone Shipments In China For The First Time, Says Canalys
If Levi’s and Coca-cola helped bring down the Berlin Wall and break up the USSR, what happens when Apple takes root in China?
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Data Lake Return on Investment
Data Lakes aren’t just high technology; data lakes are cost effective and value added solutions.
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4 Best Practices for Data Lake Anti-Pollution
Guidelines and best practices for keeping the Data Lake healthy and productive.
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CNN includes Big Data as What to look forward to in 2015
CNN reports Big Data in the Internet of Things (IoT) as what to expect in 2015.
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Meeting The Challenges In Mobile Health Innovation
Continuing the discussion of health information and cell phone usage … wearables, ingestibles, and how they connect.
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Big Data Anti-Malarial: Cell Phone Data for Greater Good
Examples of how cell phone Big Data is being used to provide medical and disaster assistance in developing countries.
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Freebie Friday – This Week’s Big Data Free Stuff found on the Internet
Freebie Friday – BIRT reporting and Data Visualization software from Actuate.
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A Healthy Dose – What a Big Data Medical Record Could Do 4U
Infographic describing how Big Data medical record keeping and information could provide better health management.
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A Healthy Dose – What a Big Data Medical Record Could Do 4U
Infographic describing how Big Data medical record keeping and information could provide better health management.
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Field Guide to Hadoop | Pentaho
Field Guide to Hadoop | Pentaho. Everyone loves free. O’Reilly Media’s weekly newsletter includes a freebie and this week’s is courtesy of Pentaho. “This book is recommended for IT managers, developers, data analysts, system architects, and similar technical workers, who are faced with having to replace current systems and skills with the new set
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How Many People Have Read your Medical History? (and gotten it right)
Human error in medical record making.
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The Moneyball Effect: How smart data is transforming criminal justice, healthcare, music, and even government spending
Some awesome examples of Big Data in the Big World – NOT just business.
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Eat Big Data
Part 2 of Big Data and Obesity. A suggestion for NuSI and others to tackle big problems with Big Data.
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Do I Look Fat?
“Do I look fat?” It’s not just women asking a best friend or the mirror. As the US population continues down the train wreck track of increasing obesity, no one is immune. Wired’s Sam Apple reports on the latest up-ending of nutrition rules to search for the Holy Grail of why we are so …
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Trust & Forgiveness in a Big Data World
Trust and Forgiveness are core elements to what and how Big Data is used every day.
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Uncertainty in an Certain World
Big Data also changes the mind set about the solution. Big Data solutions don’t provide exactly but “more” or … mostly. Probability and statistics are already used to create facts things that are mostly correct. Statistics uses samples to try to estimate the entire data set, which is an assumption we accept as fact. A
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Forget Probability and Statistics?
Although probability and statistics are still valuable tools, Big Data does alter some of the principals used in data manipulation, such as sample sets, accuracy and bias.
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What not Why of Big Data
Bringing Big Data to the People (Part 5 of 6) What Not Why – Not Your Mother’s Scientific Method What Not Why is a mental shift that accompanies the 3 Vs of Big Data. Big Data consumes great volumes of a variety of data and produces ‘what” the data is. Big Data tells you what is
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Love, life and work – 3 ordinary examples of the extraordinary capability of Big Data
“How to save a life?” The Fray makes an excellent song from an age old question. Big Data and Cloudera’s Doug Cutting answer with 3 scenarios that impact how we live now: love, life and work. LOVE. Historically, love has been dependent on locality, like high school sweethearts, office romance, or the rarest possibility of
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The 3Vs of Big Data – Volume, Velocity, and Variety
Bringing Big Data to the People (Part 4 of 6) Beyond Natural Selection – Variety Data used to have to be carefully selected for processing both in quantity and quality. Data was strictly formatted. At first, its gatekeepers were men in lab coats and pocket protectors (and eventually morphed to the IT guys.) As
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The 3Vs of Big Data – Volume, Velocity, and Variety
Bringing Big Data to the People (Part 3 of 6) Processing – Velocity Velocity is the accelerated rate at which data accumulates. Big Data isn’t just more data but more data faster too. For example, when you visit a website, the data trail isn’t purely transactional – how much of what did you buy –
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The 3Vs of Big Data – Volume, Velocity, and Variety
Bringing Big Data to the People (Part 2 of 6) Big Data is originally defined by the 3Vs – volume, velocity, and variety, although a fourth V – veracity – has entered the mix of late. Big Data is more than just information collection on a pedestrian level. Although you get there’s more data around
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GMS attends Big Data Tech Con in Boston courtesy of The Sky INTL
Big Data is a digital Wild Wild West of opportunity. A gamut of players sit at an open-source poker table holding the data cards (your information) from transactions, social web, telemetric/sensors, archives, and web media. Although US corporate participation today is found mostly in the mega businesses, garage start-ups are prevalent to making the Big Data products
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Global Maritime Sensing Evolves into Big Data
Many great inspirations take years to develop in concepts and more time yet again to become physical manifestation. The Global Maritime Sensing concept has been met with positive if not raving reviews by US and international navy partners. The implementation has still been challenged as in even the best of financial times, there are but limited
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$10 Deposits at the International Seapower Symposium
Wired magazine’s article “Identified” (SEP 2011, pp. 144-149, 154) tells the winding story of the project underway in India to digitally identify all of its 1.2 billion people. In the US where a Social Security Number is a virtual given, it’s hard to appreciate the extreme ambition of this project. The enormity of the scope alone
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Quantitative & Qualitative Collide to Solve MDA
Solutions to complex problems such as Maritime Domain Awareness are best approached with a combination of creativity and quantification. Harvard Business Review’s article Learning to Live with Complexity (SEP 2011) suggests that in attaining better risk mitigation of complex systems in the business venue, four elements make sense. These include storytelling and triangulation – which
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Prettymaps – Great Example of GIS simplicity and capability
Prettymaps is an excellent example of open source information geographically displayed. This page explains GIS well. http://prettymaps.stamen.com/201008/about/
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Global Information Systems Socialization at the International Seapower Symposium
Complicated or Complex? Maritime Domain Awareness is a complex system, not merely a complicated one. Although the electrical grid for the New York City metropolis area is vast and intricate, it’s workings are none the less only complicated because it consists of a basic network on/off switches. The linear relationship makes it easy to diagnose
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What is GIS?
A geographic information system (GIS) is a system used to describe and characterize the earth and other geographies for the purpose of visualizing and analyzing geographically referenced information. Many have characterized GIS as one of the most powerful of all information technologies because it focuses on integrating knowledge from multiple sources (for example, as layers
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Dangers of Geotagging
The critical question is whether photos already on the web and for future concept of operations are “readable” for the geotagging information. The answer is arguably yes and no. The use of geotagging for social networking sites suggests a plethora of data available for the sole or enhanced purpose of advertising or sharing location and
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US Land Data Captured via Nat’l Spacial Data Infrastructure
In the United States the National Spacial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) was created to aggregate the multiple resources already at work capturing geospacial information. This effort includes data share with government, corporate, and academics. The governing body, the Federal Geographic Data Committee recognizes the plethora of sources available from which to create more robust maps of
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A Solution for increased Maritime Domain Awareness – Global Maritime Sensing
Global Maritime Sensing (GMS) is a digital data capture of maritime traffic via use of location technology and citizen science. Locative, or location, technology utilizes the plethora of geo-spacial tools available in combination with mobile platforms such as smart phones. With smart phones now having the capability not only of time and location, but also speed,
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Mobile Photo Capture Paints a Bigger Picture with Clustr
Flickr, the photo sharing and showing website, has a geo-tagging program that has been in motion for a little over two years. With nearly 100 million photos, geo-tagging is now enhanced by an app called clustr, which takes data points, the photos, and assigns them a 6 level identity called a Where On Earth ID,
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How Location Technology is already being used for business applications
This video gives four examples of businesses already in play using location technology.
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Mobile Technology for Global Information
Locative, or location, technology utilizes the plethora of geo-spacial technologies available in combination with mobile platforms such as smart phones. Smart phones have the capability not only of capturing time and location, but also speed, acceleration and direction. From these tools a new “participatory sensing” has evolved. Wikitude is an application and website whereupon pointing a phone at
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Citizen Science – a old solution revisited
Citizen science is the term for other-than “professional” scientists or experts participating in the science process in order to facilitate projects that are often beyond the physical or fiscal capability of the proposed science concept. These projects most often recruit volunteers to do field work in mass numbers that create raw data often for huge
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Global Human Participatory Maritime Sensing
In his inspirational talk on Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) at the International Seapower Symposium (ISS) conference, ADM Thad Allen, Commandant of the US Coast Guard, commented that in order to have piracy,you need “a pirate and a pirateable” ship. ADM Allen discussed international standards for small boats to tackle this issue which in turn would
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