As the D5 group of digital nations meets in the Estonian capital Tallinn, Kirsty Styles asks whether we’re all ready, willing, or able, to go digital.
Category: Digital health
Digital Ethnography: How We Move and Sleep in India
What are the most active cities in India? Which cities get the most sleep in India? Jawbone’s data science team has the answer.
Source: How We Move and Sleep in India
Why every online shopping algorithm requires linguistic intervention
Smart software controls the prices and products you see when you shop online – and sometimes it can go spectacularly wrong, discovers Chris Baraniuk.
Source: BBC – Future – The bad things that happen when algorithms run online shops
Coding bootcamps are replacing computer science degrees as most IT professionals didn’t major in CS
In recent years, a growing number of coding boot camps have helped address the large gap between available software engineering positions and qualified candidates to fill them. Coding bootcamps have been so successful that observers have wondered whether these programs are beginning to replace traditional college computer science degrees. For example, Aaron Skonnard, the CEO of Pluralsight, argues in Edtech’s Next Big Disruption Is The College Degree that college degrees will be replaced by “a new array of modern credentials that are currently gaining mainstream traction as viable measures of learning, ability and accomplishment.”
Source: Coding bootcamps are replacing computer science degrees | VentureBeat | Dev | by Roshan Choxi, Bloc
Digital Transformation Depends Upon Next-Generation Semantic Architecture Tools
Next-generation architecture tools are now taking a holistic approach to supporting the transformation needs of the organization – holistic in the sense that such tools combine EA, BA, and other planning disciplines including business process management, case management, and decision management into a seamless, business-focused platform.
Source: Digital Transformation Depends Upon Next-Generation Architecture Tools – Forbes
From managers to explorers: fostering agile startups inside risk adverse companies
A handful of Fortune 500 companies, including General Electric (GE) and MasterCard, have created internal startups to breathe innovation into their products and services.
Source: Meet the Innovative Startups Inside Mammoth Companies
Culture, sensitivity, respect beats leadership as characteristic of top places to work
Microplastics Found In Sea Salt
A recent study has found large amounts of plastic particles in table sea salt sold in Chinese supermarkets.
Climate change will be an economic disaster for rich and poor, new study says
The argument against addressing climate change always has been fundamentally an economic one: We can’t afford the needed disruptions to our fossil fuel-driven society.
Source: Climate change will be an economic disaster for rich and poor, new study says – LA Times
22 faces everyone will recognize: Neural networks and you
Howler monkeys have to choose
In species with the largest vocal organs, males have the smallest testicles, suggesting an evolutionary trade-off between winning mates and making sperm
Source: Howler monkeys have to choose between big balls and big bawls | New Scientist
Epic poems discovered to thwart hackers by computational linguists
Two computer scientists have come up with a way to translate strings of ones and zeroes into poems that double as nearly uncrackable passwords.
Source: Why Your New Internet Password Should Be a Poem | Inc.com
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