Technology // 1.23.14 Big Data’s Next Evolution: RelevancyEveryone is always asking me how big our ontology is. How many nodes are in your ontology? How many edges do you have? Or the most common – how many terabytes of data do you have in your ontology? We live in a world where over a decade of attempted human curation of a […]
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The World of Big Data, Part 1
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You may have heard the term […]
Taking the creepy out of Big DataWhile most people find Big Data creepy, Paddy Nixon and Ros Harvey from the University of Tasmania argue democratising it would be a real social benefit.Big Data has a reputation for being creepy; the domain of “Big Business” and “Big Government”. At best it’s the driver of relentless advertising, uniquely targeted and eerily reminiscent of our most recent […]
Benchmarks ended in the negative territory on Thursday as encouraging economic reports once again intensified apprehensions that Federal Reserve’s tapering may happen sooner than expected. The economy was reported to have expanded at a faster rate and the initial claims number dropped. Now, Friday’s nonfarm payroll report will be keenly watched for further hints on Fed’s taper decision. The Dow […]
The Dow and S&P 500 extended their losing streak into a fourth successive day as strong private sector labor data intensified apprehensions that the Federal Reserve would soon begin trimming its economic stimulus package. Stocks traded lower for most of the session before make up for some losses ahead of the closing bell. The prevailing mood of uncertainty meant that […]
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5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014)
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Research in automatic Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (SSA), as subtasks of Affective Computing and Natural Language Processing (NLP), has flourished in the past years. The growth in interest in these tasks was motivated by the birth and rapid expansion of the Social Web that made […]
Big Data is the latest buzzword, and as such everybody is using it to their convenience. This has inevitably created some confusion. In this blog post we will try to clear it up.Big data is about two things: large sets of typically unstructured data and some relatively new techniques to deal with this kind of data. To get a good […]
