Linguistic Search – Page 10

CrowdMed: how crowds will diagnose rare diseases

April 29, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

How crowds, not doctors or supercomputers, could diagnose rare diseases
Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.com

When it comes to serious medical conditions, you probably want a doctor – or at least a medically trained supercomputer – delivering your diagnosis. But CrowdMed, a startup launched in public beta at TEDMED on Tuesday, is showi…

How crowds, not doctors or supercomputers, could diagnose rare diseases http://flip.it/DrcWw http://flip.it/3fhQv

The Promise In Unraveling The Mysteries Of Rare Diseases (npr.org)
Uplifting Athletes takes aim at rare diseases (cumberlink.com)
Rare Disease White Paper Open for Public Comment (biomedreports.com)
Living With Rare Diseases: Why Awareness Matters (psychologytoday.com)

How to hire a data scientist

April 29, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

How to hire data scientists and get hired as one
Derrick Harris, gigaom.com

As you might have heard before if you read McKinsey reports, the New York Times or just about any technology news site, data scientists are in high demand. Heck, the Harvard Business Review called it the sexiest job of the 21st centur…

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Big Data – Wrong Expectations Lead To Disappointment (bigdatacompany.wordpress.com)
Hired by an algorithm: Entelo gets $3.5M to expand data-based recruiting (gigaom.com)
WalmartLabs keeps getting smarter with Inkiru acquisition (worldofinnovations.net)
Dodgy data: the iceberg to science’s Titanic [GigaOM] (gigaom.com)
Why cloud storage startup Box is considering OpenStack over Amazon S3 (gigaom.com)
Predictive Analytics, Cloud Computing, and Healthcare (logicworks.net)

Twitcident: tweet mining for emergency management

April 28, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Tweet-Mining For Crowd Management, Social Weather, And Emergencies
BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com

It’s not just for insane hashtags anymore! Twitcident is mining the service to help manage everything from fires to crowded concerts.

Twitter might seem like an enormous stream of aimless chatter. But, to an increasing number of agencies,…

Tweet-Mining For Crowd Management, Social Weather, And Emergencies http://flip.it/mRmMi http://flip.it/G2FDw

Raspberry Pi Bitcoin miner (hackaday.com)
Traveling out and about with your bike (davidsidorski.wordpress.com)

American replaces outdated flight bags with iPads

April 16, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy, Security & Privacy

Step inside the modern iPad-enhanced cockpit of American Airlines
Élyse Betters, 9to5mac.com

Gadling, an AOL-owned travel blog, went aboard an American Airline recently to get a sneak peek at the iPad Electronic Flight Bag that the Federal Aviation Administration originally approved in 2011.

The iPad flight bag…

Step inside the modern iPad-enhanced cockpit of American Airlines http://flip.it/jmSyc http://flip.it/YVNLU

U.S. Air Force Will Save $50m With iPad Electronic Flight Bags (forbes.com)
The U.S. Air Force would Save $50 Million Through 18000 iPads Deal (hitechanalogy.com)

Business linguistics: code switching

April 15, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

How Code-Switching Explains The World
Gene Demby, wbur.org

So you’re at work one day and you’re talking to your colleagues in that professional, polite, kind of buttoned-up voice that people use when they’re doing professional work stuff.

Your mom or …

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Is an advanced analytics degree worth it?

April 15, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

(via AllAnalytics – Point / Counterpoint – The Advanced Analytics Degree: Worth Its Weight in Debt)

Making the Most of Google Analytics (righthat.com)
Points : Counterpoints (oligoclonal.wordpress.com)
Philadelphia 76ers Focus On Analytics As A Winning Strategy (blogs.sap.com)
Don’t do big data analytics alone, says expert (itworldcanada.com)
Reinhart And Rogoff Are Not Happy (krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)
Web Analytics and Your Business: Why Analytics Can Help You Succeed (bloggingpro.com)

Business linguistics: how to choose words which persuade

April 13, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

The Psychology of Language: Why Are Some Words More Persuasive Than Others?
Leo Widrich, lifehacker.com

What’s actually going on in the brain when it processes language? And if words affect the mind in different ways, are some more persuasive than others? Buffer cofounder Leo Widrich dives into what the research has to say about this and…

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Everything I Needed to Know About Communication I Learned in Junior High (business2community.com)
Buffer’s new Twitter optimization partnership with Moz boosts retweets and click-throughs 200% (venturebeat.com)
Why You Need To Unplug Every 90 Minutes (fastcompany.com)
Why you need to unplug every 90 minutes (mind-revolution.org)
Why We Should Rethink the Eight-Hour Workday (lifehacker.com)
Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains (economicpolicyjournal.com)
TLA lectures on e-humanities in Action 12 June (ehumanities.nl)
13 Slides That Landed Two First-Time Founders $500,000 In 3 Months (businessinsider.com)

A bracelet that sends kidnapping alerts for human rights workers

April 9, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Sustainable Design

Bracelet For Human Rights Workers Sends Kidnapping Alerts to Facebook, Twitter
By Francie Diep, popsci.com

When activated, the device sends “Help!” messages social media accounts and nearby aid workers.

Activists and aid workers who document government abuses or monitor elections often risk abduction by those who oppose their work. Now one…

RT @PopSci: Bracelet for human rights workers sends “Help!” messages to Facebook and Twitter in case of kidnapping http://flip.it/4U6CC http://flip.it/JRCzC

The GPS Armband: The Aid Workers Best Friend (storiesbywilliams.com)
Death Penalty for Polluters in China (climatedisplacement.wordpress.com)

Virgin mobile overdrive 4g mobile hotspot is best deal

April 9, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Sustainable Design

Get a Virgin Mobile Overdrive Pro 3G/4G mobile hot spot for $83.99
by Rick Broida, cnet.com

That’s the lowest price to date for this no-contract hot spot, which offers unlimited 4G service (where there’s coverage) for as little as $35.

Remember back on Monday when I said I was the victim of flaky hotel Wi-Fi? It’s true: I couldn’t…

http://flip.it/0Eusu

iPhone 5 Coming To Virgin Mobile On June 28 (apple4ladies.com)
iPhone 5 coming to Virgin Mobile USA on June 28th (electronista.com)

Guy Kawasaki on the benefits of self publishing

March 22, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata

Guy Kawasaki’s Case For Self-Publishing
By Shawn Parr, fastcompany.com

Taking a deeper look at the industry-moving concepts that inspired Guy Kawasaki’s new book, “APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur—How to Publish a Book.”

“A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down..…

Guy Kawasaki’s Case For Self-Publishing http://flip.it/yfJ3N http://flip.it/CYGqB

Guy Kawasaki’s Best Tips for Publishing Your Own Book (news.terra.com)
Guy Kawasaki’s Best Tips for Publishing Your Own Book (entrepreneur.com)
Guy Kawasaki’s Best Tips for Publishing Your Own Book (newspodge.wordpress.com)
Call It “Artisanal,” And 5 Other Ways To Crush Self-Publishing (fastcompany.com)
Don’t Waste Your Creativity (psychologytoday.com)

Data science of gambling

March 19, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

(via Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

Project ECHO: Can We Teach Physicians to Better Diagnose… (medfinder.wordpress.com)
Health Care: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars (conniejohnsonresearchfunding.wordpress.com)

Your FB likes become your demographic profile

March 18, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

What Your Likes On Facebook Betray About You
By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com

Another nail in the coffin for Facebook privacy: An algorithm can accurately predict your demographic info, political preferences, and more, just by looking at your “likes.”

Think of all the pages you’ve “liked” on Facebook. Perhaps a favorite…

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Convert Likes To Leads With These Facebook Marketing Tips (news6cuban.wordpress.com)
Generating Electricity with Manmade Tornadoes may be Future of Energy [VIDEO] (natureworldnews.com)
If you want attention on Google+, go large and horizontal with your images (techi.com)

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