Author: timbatchelder

  • Big Data News of the Week: Sexy and Social Data Scientists

    Big Data News of the Week: Sexy and Social Data Scientists Gil Press, forbes.com In a week when tech ven­dors tra­di­tion­al­ly go on a news hia­tus, the peo­ple who actu­al­ly do big data came to the fore. Infor­ma­tion­Week report­ed on the gath­er­ing of near­ly three dozen data sci­en­tists from acad­e­mia and… http://flpbd.it/qnGXj Related articles Big…

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  • Cyber Corps program trains spies for the digital age

    Cyber Corps program trains spies for the digital age By Ken Dilanian, Washington Bureau, latimes.com NATION At the University of Tulsa school, students learn to write computer viruses, hack digital networks and mine data from broken cellphones. Many graduates head to the CIA or NSA. TULSA, Okla. — Jim Thav­isay is secret­ly stalk­ing one of…

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  • Behavioral Scientists Advised Obama Campaign

      ‘Dream Team’ of Behavioral Scientists Advised Obama Campaign – NYTimes.com. While getting out the vote for the Warren campaign, we applied some of the same behavioral/social science research described in this article. Related articles Romney Blames Loss on Obama’s ‘Gifts’ to Minorities and Young Voters – NYTimes.com ‘Dream Team’ of Behavioral Scientists Advised Obama…

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  • Some Electoral Math For ‘All You Climate People’ Climate Guest Blogger, thinkprogress.org CNN’s Candy Crow­ley by Matt Was­son, via Appalachi­an Voic­es Dur­ing a cam­paign sea­son in which cli­mate change fea­tured most promi­nent­ly as a laugh line at the Repub­li­can Nation­al Con­ven­tion, the low point was when CNN’s Ca… http://flpbd.it/ClJ9Y

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  • Some Electoral Math For ‘All You Climate People’ Climate Guest Blogger, thinkprogress.org CNN’s Candy Crow­ley by Matt Was­son, via Appalachi­an Voic­es Dur­ing a cam­paign sea­son in which cli­mate change fea­tured most promi­nent­ly as a laugh line at the Repub­li­can Nation­al Con­ven­tion, the low point was when CNN’s Ca… http://flpbd.it/ClJ9Y

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  • Some Electoral Math For ‘All You Climate People’ Climate Guest Blogger, thinkprogress.org CNN’s Candy Crow­ley by Matt Was­son, via Appalachi­an Voic­es Dur­ing a cam­paign sea­son in which cli­mate change fea­tured most promi­nent­ly as a laugh line at the Repub­li­can Nation­al Con­ven­tion, the low point was when CNN’s Ca… http://flpbd.it/ClJ9Y

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  • Some Electoral Math For ‘All You Climate People’ Climate Guest Blogger, thinkprogress.org CNN’s Candy Crow­ley by Matt Was­son, via Appalachi­an Voic­es Dur­ing a cam­paign sea­son in which cli­mate change fea­tured most promi­nent­ly as a laugh line at the Repub­li­can Nation­al Con­ven­tion, the low point was when CNN’s Ca… http://flpbd.it/ClJ9Y

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  • Boston natural gas leaks

    Boston has a few thousand gas leaks it shouldn’t worry about pbgrist, grist.org Just FYI, Bostonon­i­an­ites, there’s a nat­ur­al gas leak under your city. Not a big deal. It’s a lit­tle one. Lit­tle small lit­tle nat­ur­al gas leak. And a tiny bit of addi­tion­al bad news — there are also over 3,300 other such leaks.…

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  • Opower energy management software

    Major Utilities Adopt Opower’s New Energy Engagement Platform Beth Buczynski, earthtechling.com Until more nation­al gov­ern­ments adopt aggres­sive strate­gies to speed clean ener­gy devel­op­ment, con­ser­va­tion remains the sim­plest and most effec­tive car­bon reduc­tion tac­tic. The ques­tion that remains is how? Util­i­ties and… http://flpbd.it/WVHAu Related articles Opower Voted Best Potential Investment at Conference (blogs.wsj.com) A Little Guilt,…

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