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BigCHat 2014 : KDD 2014 Workshop on Connected Health at Big …

BigCHat: KDD 2014 Workshop on Connected Health at Big Data Era
August 24, 2014
New York, NY, USA
https://tinyurl.com/bigchat2014
Key Dates
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Paper Submission Due: June 23, Monday, 11:59PM PST
Acceptance Notification: July 8
Camera Ready Due: July 31
Workshop Date: August 24
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Submission
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Manuscripts should be in English and must not exceed 8 pages using the standard ACM format found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates in PDF format. Papers should be submitted from […]

The Economist explains: The backlash against big data | The …

“BOLLOCKS”, says a Cambridge professor. “Hubris,” write researchers at Harvard. “Big data is bullshit,” proclaims Obama’s reelection chief number-cruncher. A few years ago almost no one had heard of “big data”. Today it’s hard to avoid—and as a result, the digerati love to condemn it. Wired, Time, Harvard Business Review and other publications are falling over themselves to dance on […]

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“BOLLOCKS”, says a Cambridge professor. “Hubris,” write researchers at Harvard. “Big data is bullshit,” proclaims Obama’s reelection chief number-cruncher. A few years ago almost no one had heard of “big data”. Today it’s hard to avoid—and as a result, the digerati love to condemn it. Wired, Time, Harvard Business Review and other publications are falling over themselves to dance on […]

2014/02/20 Big Mechanism Seeks the “Whys” Hidden in Big Data

February 20, 2014Program aims to leapfrog state-of-the-art big data analytics by developing automated technologies to help explain the causes and effects that drive complicated systems During the 1854 cholera epidemic in London, Dr. John Snow plotted cholera deaths on a map, and in the corner of a particularly hard-hit quadrangle of buildings was a water pump. Snow’s maps, a 19th-century version […]

Li Ka Shing Foundation gives $3 million to Stanford for 'big data …

JAN. 23, 2014Li Ka Shing Foundation gives $3 million to Stanford for ‘big data’ initiativeBY RUTHANN RICHTERRelated News » Li Ka-shing talks of Stanford’s ‘special place’ in his heart
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