In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think, authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. They explained how Google’s algorithm mined five years of web logs, containing hundreds of billions of searches, and created a predictive model utilizing 45 search […]
Big Data Hubris: Google Flu versus realityCory Doctorow at 6:00 pm Mon, Mar 24, 2014
In The Parable of Google Flu:
Traps in Big Data Analysis [PDF], published in Science, researchers try to understand why Google Flu (which uses search history to predict flu outbreaks) performed so well at first but has not done well since. One culprit: people […]
Stock Market Crash – Dow Crashes 450 in 2 DaysStock-Markets / Financial CrashJan 26, 2014 – 12:39 PM GMTBy: WavePatternTraders
Anyone reading that headline would think it’s some sort of surprise to most traders that the markets crashed 450 points in 2 days, but for us a wavepatterntraders.com we have been looking […]
By Jiahao Chen, MIT and the larger Julia communityWhilst the abstract question occupies your intellect, nature brings it in the concrete to be solved by your hands. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Prospects, in Nature; Addresses and LecturesWhen I first learned about the Julia programming language at the beginning of 2012, I was skeptical about its ability to succeed. Writing a new programming language […]
In our last post, we warned of a new Windows local privilege escalation vulnerability being used in the wild. We noted that the Windows bug (CVE-2013-5065) was exploited in conjunction with a patched Adobe Reader bug (CVE-2013-3346) to evade the Reader sandbox. CVE-2013-3346 was exploited to execute the attacker’s code in the sandbox-restricted Reader process, where CVE-2013-5065 was exploited to […]
Print PDF“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”, the famous quote by Henry Ford. Nowadays, Ford uses big data to find out what their customers want and to develop better cars faster. Developing a product that requires 20.000 – 25.000 different parts to develop, big data seems to be the only way forward […]
Curated discussion service Branch launches publicly with highlights, activity feeds, Spotify supportThe NRA launches a target-practice shooting app on iOS…for ages 4+AppsInsiderUKSocial trading: DCM Dealer uses Twitter and Facebook sentiment to help traders make investment decisions
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Worldreader and FC Barcelona team up to send one million e-books to sub-Saharan AfricaMobile deals company Scoutmob raises $3.25 million, inks deal with First DataAppsEuropeInsiderSocial MediaUKUncategorizedA new app promises to let anyone use social media sentiment to guide them in the stock market
ShareHN0SharesWorldreader and FC Barcelona team up to send one million e-books to sub-Saharan AfricaMobile deals company Scoutmob raises […]
