Editor’s note: Nuria Oliver is a scientific director at Telefonica looking at how the use of big data can help to fight pandemics such as Ebola and bird flu.Last year, I gave a talk at WIRED 2013 on how anonymous and aggregated mobile phone data can be used to understand and combat the spread of infectious diseases. I described a study that we […]
General Electric – a literal powerhouse of a corporation involved in virtually every area of industry, has been laying the foundations of what it grandly calls the Industrial Internet for some time now.But what exactly is it? In this post I will try and give a basic overview of the ideas which they are hoping will transform industry, and how […]
Big Data has made headlines in technology by customizing user experience and predicting behavior.What is Big Data you ask?It’s the storage and analysis of large quantities of information generally considered too complex for traditional use. Other industries, including health care, are also starting to explore the practical applications of using data to inform decision-making.I recently explored the potential for the […]
If you’re a young, male driver, or you have one in your family, you are no doubt aware of the astronomical price of car insurance.This is obviously because drivers in this category are involved in a higher number of accidents, so it seems fair that they pay more to be on the road, right?But what about those young, male drivers […]
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 […]
In current medical practice, newborns are typically taken to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) if the mother’s temperature rises above 100.4 degrees because that may signal an increased risk of neonatal sepsis, a bacterial blood infection. With the emergence of Big Data and evidence-based medical practices, many infants are spared that trip due to an innovative metric that allows […]
Dr. Jan de Jeu, vice president of the University of GroningenA few weeks ago IBM, ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, and the University of Groningen (UoG) formed the European Research Center for Exascale Technology (ERCET) to address some of the greatest societal challenges facing The Netherlands today including energy, healthcare and water management.One of the orchestrators of the […]
August 7, 2014Great feature on Asystec in this week’s Business and Finance magazine, read the full article here:http://businessandfinance.com/ones-to-watch-july-2014/Asystec Big Data Analytics Institute – 3 day courseAsystec, in collaboration with Persontyle and Eiura, are hosting a 3 day bootcamp in DCU from the 18th – 20th of August 2014. This bootcamp will be a fast paced, hands-on introduction to predictive modelling […]
In an interview with Science Friday, Dartmouth’s Jason H. Moore weighs in about Google’s new data collection project, called Baseline Study, which is attempting to paint a picture of human health by cataloging the DNA of healthy people, along with their blood, saliva, tears, and more.
“As a data scientist I am really excited about the Google Baseline Study,” says Moore, […]
By Magdalena Balazinska, University of WashingtonAt the recent SIGMOD 2014 conference, we demonstrated the Myria Big Data Management and Analytics Service.Myria is a cloud service developed and operated by the University of Washington Database Group and eScience Institute. The Myria design meets requirements from real users and complex workflows, especially in science. Myria provides a unique combination of features:Myria is offered […]
