Nicholas Kamm/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesWorld Cup fans gathered in Washington on Thursday to watch the United States play Germany.The United States-Germany soccer match on Thursday was a roller coaster of emotions. And an analysis of the social media communications before, during and after the match shows the minute-by-minute shifts in sentiment and in subjects discussed, as the American team […]
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— Pink FloydIt’s Hump Day in the City of […]
Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesJohn Podesta, a counselor to the president, said a goal of reviewing privacy and big data was to determine how the public and private sectors might maximize the flow of information necessary for innovation while minimizing potential privacy risks to individuals. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — With the success of its free open online course system, called […]
Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesJohn Podesta, a counselor to the president, said a goal of reviewing privacy and big data was to determine how the public and private sectors might maximize the flow of information necessary for innovation while minimizing potential privacy risks to individuals. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — With the success of its free open online course system, called […]
What use is a library without a librarian, or an encyclopedia without an index? Scale that prospect up to the realms of Web analytics, astronomy, high-speed finance, or even basketball statistics, and the problem becomes clear.As research scientist Fernando Pérez put it, “Regardless of the amount of data we have … we still only have two eyeballs and one brain.”Pérez, […]
As long as there have been markets, people have been driven by greed to make irrational investment decisions. When enough people get in on the action, valuations — the prices of securities — go haywire, soaring to obscene heights and then crashing in a shower of crushed dreams.Chasing performance, taking on excessive risk and selling at inopportune times are all […]
The term big data has gotten a lot of press. My sense from speaking with people is big data is a buzz phrase that most marketing and sales people vaguely know a little about but most don’t really understand the potential for in their business. And very few organizations are actually taking advantage today. I actually like the term “rich […]
