Thought Leaders in Big Data: Don DeLoach, CEO of Infobright (Part …

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Don DeLoach, CEO of Infobright (Part 6)Posted on Saturday, Jun 14th 2014Sramana Mitra: I heard you speak multiple times about the Internet of Things – that you are aligning your company against that trend. What blue-sky opportunities or white spaces would you draw the attention of entrepreneurs to?Don DeLoach: Not in an effort to be […]

Big Data Hubris: Google Flu versus reality – Boing Boing

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 […]