Big data innovation explodes at RENCI
Published: May 23, 2014
Claire McPherson of Deloitte closes out a great Innovation Summit.
The creative vibes were buzzing at the First NCDS Data Innovation Showcase, held at RENCI on Wednesday, May 21, 2014. The Showcase, centered around innovative strategies for the rapidly-expanding big data field, brought together NCDS members, faculty […]
Short for data visualization, it’s the art (and science) of putting numbers into graphics that are easy to understand and use. Here’s how to get ready for it.FORTUNE — Dear Annie: I’m graduating at the end of this month with a major in marketing, and I’ll be starting a great new job as a marketing and brand-management trainee at a big […]
An investing strategy completely based on social media sentiment won’t make you rich, but stock-focused social media can boost your education as an investor and offer tips for further research. Read on for our blue chip pick of the best place on the Web to connect with other investors.By now we know that social media can’t predict the ebbs and […]
Here is my mini list of critical education skills for the 21st Century:-Fluency in English, one European language AND Mandarin(the last language will enable you to write your own ticket internationally with any Mega Global Conglomerate)-BA in a STEM Field-Expertise in Statistics and Familiarity with Scientific Literature-Know the difference between healthy skepticism of an internet article and naivity.-Ability to Mine […]
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The social sector is undergoing an important transformation when it comes to research and evaluation. Nonprofits have shifted from asking whether they should measure their work to how to most effectively assess impact. Coupled with the emergence of new approaches for collecting and analyzing data, there’s never been more interest […]
Across the field of health and wellness there is a lot of talk about data, from consumer self-tracking and Quantified Self data, to data-driven, personalized health care, to data-intensive, crowd sourced, scientific discovery. But what are these different stakeholders talking about when they talk about data and are they talking about the same thing?At EPIC, in the “Big Data/Ethnography or […]
Over the past several years Big Data has been bandied about in boardrooms and tech blogs. Despite the conversations taking place, there has remained an operational ignorance for how the Enterprise can implement effective strategies around how best to capitalize on this new business paradigm. As SiliconANGLE has been reporting over the past several weeks, the fault doesn’t necessarily lay […]
BI IntelligenceThe world’s largest social networks are storing massive amounts of never-before-analyzed data that could reveal lucrative information about consumers — from how people are influenced, to what triggers an intent to purchase.
However, as much as 90% of that data is “unstructured,” meaning it’s spontaneously generated and not easily captured and classified. But machine learning or artificial intelligence […]
The Big Data Future is a conference at Ohio State University 19-21 March 2014 hosted by I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society in the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. It is supported by Battelle, IBM and Elsevier. Some interesting people talking, Harvey Miller from OSU Geography for example who has written a lot about […]
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