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in title, tags, annotations or urlNothing New About Asking Questions. The Right Ones. - Neoteny - 0 views
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There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical about the BD market. But big data probably deserves a place in overall enterprise IT strategy for generating business insight. Best practices include generating a list of important challenges or questions that the current approach to data does not address. Could big data deliver the answers enterprises are looking for? If so, then it's all about discipline. A disciplined, targeted approach to big data - one focused on answering very specific questions. (my emphasis - I'll get to those later)
Book Excerpt: The Numerati by Stephen Baker - BusinessWeek - 0 views
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BusinessWeek's 2006 Cover Story, "Math Will Rock Your World," announced a new age of numbers. With the rise of new networks, the story argued, all of us were channeling the details of our lives into vast databases. Every credit-card purchase, every cell-phone call, every click on the computer mouse fed these digital troves. Those with the tools and skills to make sense of them could begin to decipher our movements, desires, diseases, and shopping habits-and predict our behavior. This promised to transform business and society. In a book expanding upon this Cover Story, The Numerati, Senior Writer Stephen Baker introduces us to the mathematical wizards who are digging through our data to decode us as patients, shoppers, voters, potential terrorists-even lovers.
Mining of Massive Datasets - 1 views
Wired UK, Barabási Lab and BIG data | blprnt.blg - 0 views
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Which brings us to the underlying point of the piece - we are all leaving digital trails behind us, as we make our way around our individual lives. These trails are largely considered individual - even ethereal - yet technology is making these trails more visible and more readable everyday.
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Over the last year, I've produced five data-driven pieces for Wired UK. Four of them have been for the two-page infoporn spread that can be found in every issue. I've looked at the UK's National DNA Database, used mined Twitter data to find people's travel paths, and mapped traffic in some of the world's busiest sea ports.
10 ways data is changing how we live - Telegraph - 1 views
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The majority of the information that we use in our daily lives is "dumb", or unconnected. The next step is "linked data", or data that talks to each other.
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The availability of new sets of data has changed the way we live our lives: here are 10 examples of data which have changed everything from how we assess wars to how companies deliver milk.
Many Eyes - 1 views
YouTube - Authors@Google: Ian Ayres - 0 views
Freebase - A wealth of free data - 0 views
Big Data, Analytics and the Path From Insights to Value - The Magazine - MIT Sloan Management Review - 0 views
Homo Competens Blog: [ LAK11 ] Week 2, Big Data - 0 views
7 Data Blogs To Explore - ReadWriteCloud - 1 views
Singapore Picks a Winner in Analytics - Tom Davenport - Harvard Business Review - 0 views
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Singapore's government has also provided substantial support for the Living Analytics Research Centre. The Centre, a research partnership between Carnegie Mellon and Singapore Management University, "seeks to make Singapore one of the world's premier locations for the development and applied use of real-time consumer and social analytics, as well as one of the world's leading centres for computational social science related R&D and education."