Cooper Smith
Aug. 18, 2014, 11:05 AM
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The average global internet user spends two and a half hours daily on social media, and information on their activity — gathered under the catch-all ‘big data’ — reveals a great deal about what makes them tick.
Now, social networks are making significant investments in putting this data to work to deliver personalized content, and […]
Earlier this year, the European Central Bank held a two-day workshop on big data and how it can be used for forecasting. The headline speaker was Hal Varian, chief economist at Google and a number cruncher of rock star status.
Varian outlined the power of Google Trends and Google Correlate, the company’s big data tools. “With Google Trends, you type in […]
With a background in sociology, Tom Davenport, a Distinguished Professor in Management and Information Technology at Babson College and author of 19 books on management practices and analytics, thinks about technology in terms of what it means for humans. At the Hewlett-Packard (HP) Vertica Big Data Conference this week, he joined theCUBE’s John Furrier and Dave Vellante and talked about […]
Brett Brown’s emphasis on physical fitness is already paying dividends. – Howard Smith-USA TODAY SportsWe take a look inside the NBA statistical database to explore why an old Sixers’ slogan is more appropriate now than it was when it first debuted six years ago.Prior to the start of last season, Philadelphia 76ers’ head coach Brett Brown and his staff created customized […]
PhotoCreditTechnology revolutions come in measured, sometimes foot-dragging steps. The lab science and marketing enthusiasm tend to underestimate the bottlenecks to progress that must be overcome with hard work and practical engineering, Steve Lohr reports.The field known as “big data” offers a contemporary case study. The catchphrase stands for the modern abundance of digital data from many sources — the web, […]
PhotoCreditTechnology revolutions come in measured, sometimes foot-dragging steps. The lab science and marketing enthusiasm tend to underestimate the bottlenecks to progress that must be overcome with hard work and practical engineering, Steve Lohr reports.The field known as “big data” offers a contemporary case study. The catchphrase stands for the modern abundance of digital data from many sources — the web, […]
You can have anonymous data or you can have open science, but you can’t have both. That’s the conclusion that several colleagues and I reach in an article now online at Queue and forthcoming in Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery. The short version: many people have called for making science more open and transparent by sharing data and posting data openly. […]
Most ‘big data’ marketing is a waste of time, and here’s whyUsing big data to look at past trends is not the best way to work out what your customers want, argues Peter Swan of the UNSW Australia Business School in this cross-posting from The Conversation.A passer-by happens upon a drunk searching for a lost wallet under a streetlight. With nothing in […]
From (inter)objective Big Data to (inter)subjective Deep DataMichel Bauwens16th August 2014
The real problem of big data is that we are increasingly outsourcing our capacity to sense and think to algorithms programmed into machines. While this seems very convenient and cool at first and offers access to services that many of us want, it also raises a question about who actually […]
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