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  • Bits Blog: Car Insurance by the Mile

    By QUENTIN HARDY, nytimes.com A California company is selling car insurance by the mile, using in-car sensors to log data. The longer plan is to have a running monitor of the car’s health. http://flip.it/iV6qk Bits Blog: Car Insurance by the Mile Related articles Car insurance prices ‘start to fall’ (bbc.co.uk)

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  • Computational social science

    (via Computational social science: Making the links : Nature News & Comment) Related articles Scott Atran: The Folly of Defunding Social Science (huffingtonpost.com) Data Science in Business/Computational Social Science in Academia? (r-bloggers.com) Article Review: “Computational Social Science” by Lazer Et Al (rfidentity.wordpress.com)

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  • Social Science Pushing Data Frontiers

    (via Social Science Pushing Data Frontiers – Information Management Blogs Article) Related articles Scott Atran: The Folly of Defunding Social Science (huffingtonpost.com) Why does social science have such a hard job explaining itself? (guardian.co.uk) Data Science in Business/Computational Social Science in Academia? (r-bloggers.com) Two Week Capacity Building Programme for Faculty in Social Sciences (knowledgesteez.wordpress.com)

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  • Robot ethics: Morals and the machine

    (via Robot ethics: Morals and the machine | The Economist) Related articles Three Rules Won’t Get the Job Done | Ethics by the Book (csuitementor.wordpress.com) How the Non-Aggression Principle Works (rathbonezvizionz.wordpress.com)

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  • Lumoback Posture-Monitoring

    Start-Up Behind Lumoback Posture-Monitoring Gadget Raises $5M Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com Lumo BodyTech, which makes a wear­able waist­band that tracks pos­ture and move­ment and vibrates when the wear­er slouch­es, has raised $5 mil­lion in Series A fund­ing led by Madrona Ven­ture Group. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based start-up dou­ble… http://flip.it/mi6cM Related articles Posture Police (wired.com) LUMOback Posture…

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  • Early Flu Season Found Lurking in Social Data

    Early Flu Season Found Lurking in Social Data Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com A small start-up called Sick­weath­er says pub­lic tweets and Face­book mes­sages helped it declare an early start to this year’s U.S. flu sea­son, six weeks before the CDC. Baltimore-based Sick­weath­er tweet­ed about the early flu sea­son on O… http://flip.it/j4OW2 Related articles The new bird…

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  • Apple’s Next Battleground Isn’t TV; It’s Web Services

    Apple’s Next Battleground Isn’t TV; It’s Web Services John Paczkowski, allthingsd.com Apple does hard­ware and soft­ware well, and it’s at the top of its game when it does them togeth­er. But when it comes to Web ser­vices, the com­pa­ny is a lag­gard, with an ever-lengthening conga line of mis­steps. There are hands-down fias­co… http://flip.it/fuyg5 Related…

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  • New registry to tally, track burn pit illnesses among vets

    ‘This generation’s Agent Orange:’ New registry to tally, track burn pit illnesses among vets By Bill Briggs, NBC News contributor, nbcnews.com An Amer­i­can flag dan­gles from the Tor­res home, the sign of a long bat­tle won: a new law — signed Thurs­day by Pres­i­dent Barack Obama — cre­at­ing a reg­istry of U.S. ser­vice mem­bers per­haps…

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  • Why big data is about mining real world behavior

    By STEVE LOHR, nytimes.com Business experts and recent research predict that machine-generated sensor data will become a larger and larger portion of all data produced. That is opening up a huge opportunity for Big Data technology beyond the consumer Internet. RT @nytimesbits: Big Data: Rise of the Machines http://flip.it/X0O7J http://flip.it/82cR0 Bits Blog: Big Data: Rise…

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  • Avoid recruiters and put your skills up for auction

    Hounded By Recruiters, Coders Put Themselves Up For Auction J.J. Colao, forbes.com When Pete Lon­don post­ed a resume on LinkedIn in Decem­ber 2009, the JavaScript spe­cial­ist stum­bled into a trap of sorts. Short­ly after cre­at­ing a pro­file he received a mes­sage from a recruiter at Google. Just days later, anoth­er from… RT @ForbesTech: Hounded by…

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  • Why and what you need to keep learning to stay competitive

    Learning Should Be Your Top 2013 New Year’s Resolution Eze Vidra, thenextweb.com As we get clos­er to the New Year, the rit­u­al of mak­ing res­o­lu­tions begins and we all flock to the usual pat­terns: we want to to eat health­i­er, work out more, get pro­mot­ed, or spend more time with our kids and fam­i­ly. These…

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  • Location based culture data app

    Sitegeist: mobile app mines public data to tell you about the spot you’re standing in Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net Nicko sez, “Sitegeist is a free Android and iPhone app from the Sun­light Foun­da­tion that helps you to learn more about your sur­round­ings in sec­onds. Sitegeist takes pub­lic data about the peo­ple, hous­ing, his­to­ry, envi­ron­ment and thing……

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