Learning Analytics

NetMiner is an innovative software tool for Exploratory Analysis and Visualization of Network Data. NetMiner allows you to explore your network data visually and interactively, and helps you to detect underlying patterns and structures of the network

Program for Large Network Analysis

How Billions of Trivial Data Points can Lead to Understanding

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.

Demdex captures behavioral data on behalf of Websites and advertisers and stores it in a "behavioral data bank." The company then score each user across more than 40 behavioral and demographic variables to come up with a "traitweight," which helps websites segment their audiences better and advertisers target their messages more exactly.

You know your data is big - you found Hadoop. What implications must you consider when working at this scale? This lecture addresses common challenges and general best practices for scaling with your data.

Have been listening to a Dave Snowden podcast of a "101 organic KM course". Amongst many familiar themes is the mention of the pitfalls of too much transparency hurting innovation.

Kynetx, Inc. is a privately-held Platform as a Service (PaaS) company based in Lehi, Utah. It provides a development platform for context automation that is the first of its kind. The platform uses Kynetx Network Services to supply tools to developers to create context-aware applications that can run on a multitude of devices, including browsers, mobile phones, and desktops.

What new things could we discover if social network analysis took time and space into account, in addition to the raw connections between people?

We've written a series of how-to guides explaining how we collected the data. Most of the techniques are within the ability of the moderately experienced programmer.

Cloudera is a company that helps developers with big database problems. Here the CEO Mike Olson gives us a tour through the major database changes that are hitting lots of startups now.