APRIL 29, 2014Big Data in Biomedicine conference set for May 21-23 at StanfordBY RUTHANN RICHTERRelated News » Li Ka Shing Foundation gives $3 million to Stanford for ‘big data’ initiative
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By Stephen Goldsmith & Christopher Kingsley.Chances are very good that the last call you received from a congressional campaign was personal. A volunteer chose your seven-digit number, out of thousands in the ward, because an algorithm comparing dozens of data points on when you registered, how you’ve voted, and what kind of truck you drive suggested that you were persuadable. […]
Big Data: Are we making a big mistake?Five years ago, a team of researchers from Google announced a remarkable achievement in one of the world’s top scientific journals, Nature. Without needing the results of a single medical check-up, they were nevertheless able to track the spread of influenza across the US. What’s more, they could do it more quickly than […]
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Submissions are invited for the 3rd Workshop on Issues of Sentiment Discovery
and Opinion Mining (WISDOM), an ICML14 workshop exploring the new frontiers of
big data computing for opinion mining through machine-learning techniques and
sentiment learning methods. For more information, please visit:
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The distillation of knowledge from social media is an extremely difficult task
as the content of today’s Web, while perfectly suitable […]
Are you a big fan of Apple or Nike, or a hater of McDonald’s? A new study from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University shows love-it or hate-it brands probably won’t perform exceptionally well in the stock market, but they also offer investors less risk because you know just what to expect – the good […]
Photo: David Mantel/Getty ImagesWatching the Woods: A new mapping tool uses satellite imagery to keep an eye on the world’s forests from above.
When a tree falls in the forest these days, it doesn’t just make a sound—it causes a computer program to generate an alert that’s sent out to activists, researchers, and environmental policymakers around the planet. An online tool […]
They just said the word bullshit live, as it were, on air.For British media, that’s like, pretty unheard of it isn’t it? The Economist always has had balls though I suppose, and exists in its own special space where it can say what the hell it likes I guess. And of course this is a casual blog and not the […]
Jim Meyerle is the co-founder of Evolv, a big data company that optimizes workforce performance.As a co-founder at a big data analytics software company, where recruiting talented data scientists and engineers often feels like finding a needle in a haystack, I regularly get asked about lessons learned in building world class, big data-focused R&D teams.Given that the market for these […]
Library Of CongressStocks are tanking today.
This move mirrors other dives in recent weeks — a decline that has taken the tech-heavy NASDAQ down 7% from its highs and the S&P and Dow about 3% from their highs.Drops like that are no big deal. But some signs suggest that this pullback — or another one sometime soon — could get […]
Amazon.comSee Also7 Books Every Leader Should Read, According To A Harvard Business School Professor Goldman Sachs Just Threw Stock Exchanges Under The Bus15 Outrageous Facts About 15 Central Park West, The World’s Most Powerful AddressMichael Lewis and his publisher have done an excellent job keeping the details of his new book, ‘Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt’, completely under wraps, […]
