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

November 25, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

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…

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Big Data, Big Deal? (A Big Data 101 presentation) (slideshare.net)
Let’s get real…how do you monetize Big Data? (successfulworkplace.com)
why? why? why! (strata.oreilly.com)
Exploring the Biases of Big Data (blogs.technet.com)
Big Data and Data Sharing – Going Places? (ehealth.johnwsharp.com)
Big data success requires greater corporate leadership – Digital Reasoning (isykes.wordpress.com)
IBM Enhances Big Data Platform With Hadoop And Analytics (techweekeurope.co.uk)

Cyber Corps program trains spies for the digital age

November 24, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy, Security & Privacy

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 h…

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Hope Kronman: Connection in the Digital Age (huffingtonpost.com)
Humanities in the digital age | Harvard Gazette (digitalcollaboration.wordpress.com)
The Growing Need for Cyber Security Professionals (techwench.com)

Behavioral Scientists Advised Obama Campaign

November 24, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

‘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.

Obama Announces Details on $100 Million for Neuroscience Research (natureworldnews.com)

Opower energy management software

November 22, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Systems Science

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…

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Opower Voted Best Potential Investment at Conference (blogs.wsj.com)
A Little Guilt, a Lot of Energy Savings (slate.com)
Smart Power: Why More Bytes Will Mean Fewer – and Cleaner – Electrons (science.time.com)
GTM Research Hands Out 2013 Smart Grid Innovation Awards (greentechmedia.com)
Smart Power (business.time.com)

CrashPlan offers Carbonite users a free year of cloud backup

November 19, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Linguistic Search, Security & Privacy

CrashPlan offers Carbonite users a free year of cloud backup | Marketplace Blog – CNET Reviews.

Fastest backup solution for your digital life (technorati.com)
How to set up CrashPlan Cloud Backup headless on a Synology NAS – Backup Strategies (hanselman.com)
Carbonite Ranked 51st Fastest Growing Company in North America on Deloitte’s 2012 Technology Fast 500™ (sacbee.com)
HOW TO PREVENT A DATA-LOSS DISASTER. “Cloud-based backup services fall into two camps: You can stor… (pjmedia.com)
Carbonite Buys Zmanda: PC, Server, Database Backup to the Cloud (thevarguy.com)
Lessons from Sandy: CrashPlan and the importance of off-site backup (tuaw.com)
Carbonite Buys Backup Firm Zmanda as Big Data Spending Skyrockets (xconomy.com)

Raspberry Pi puts programming into everyone’s hands

November 13, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata

Everyone wants a slice of Raspberry Pi
Miranda Sawyer, guardian.co.uk

The £25 programmable computer invented by British scientists has turned into a global sensation. Will it encourage kids to teach themselves code, or just end up in the hands of nerds?

It’s 9am on a lovely autumn morning at Cern, the European…

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Top 10 Things to Connect to Your Raspberry Pi #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi (adafruit.com)
Going Mobile with Raspberry Pi (architects.dzone.com)
Turn A Raspberry Pi Into An Alway-On Usenet Downloading Machine (lifehacker.com.au)
How To Add MPEG 2 To Your Raspberry Pi Media Centre (makeuseof.com)
Turn a Raspberry Pi Into an Alway-On Usenet Downloading Machine (lifehacker.com)
Raspberry Pi Microcomputers Are Powering A School Computing Lab In Rural Cameroon (techcrunch.com)

Lingala: learn language in a day

November 13, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

How I learned a language in 22 hours
Joshua Foer, guardian.co.uk

He’s never been good with languages, so can Joshua Foer really hope to learn Lingala in a day?

“What do you know about where I come from?” That was one of the first questions I ever asked Bosco Mongousso, an Mbendjele pygmy who lives in the…

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Joshua Foer: WATCH: The Secret To Superpower Memory (huffingtonpost.com)
Gweek 086: Utopian for Beginners (boingboing.net)
Moonwalking With Einstein – Joshua Foer (developinginstincts.wordpress.com)

Obama data geeks

November 13, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Obama’s data geeks add up to four more years
John Naughton, guardian.co.uk

Mastery of the numbers game meant the president’s team was able to exploit its database more effectively than Romney, reeling in £1bn in donations

Some years ago I went to a lecture given by Professor David MacKay, who in addition to being a…

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Property: Canary Wharf welcomes geeks bearing gifts (standard.co.uk)
The White House shows us how to recover from a geek gaffe (io9.com)
Obama Loses Geek Cred After “Jedi Mind Meld” Comment, White House Makes Up for It (geekosystem.com)
Bill Gates addresses cybersecurity threats, then gets hacked (geekwire.com)

iPhone as a photographic memory

November 12, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

Turn Your Smartphone Camera into a Pocketable Photographic Memory
Adam Dachis, lifehacker.com

Several apps exist to help you remember the many things you’d otherwise forget, but perhaps none are quite as useful and efficient as your camera. Typing takes time. Snapping a photo only takes a moment, and there are so many ways you …

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Is Google Glass a street photographer’s dream? – Verge Forums (theverge.com)
12 iPhone Tricks You Didn’t Know Your iPhone Could Do – Lifehack (lifehack.org)

Wealth and health of nations info graphic

November 12, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Systems Science

The Wealth & Health of Nations
tumblr.com

An interactive graphic on “The Wealth and Health of Nations” by Mike Bostock, the graphics editor at the New York Times and creator of the D3 JavaScript Data Visualization Library.

This is a recreation of the famous GapMinder…

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Comparing the Perception of Wealth Inequality in the U.S. to Reality (infosthetics.com)
Introducing the healthvis R package – one line D3 graphics with R (simplystatistics.org)
40 Amazing Yet Free Visualization Libraries: Charts, Diagrams And Flowcharts (smashingapps.com)

Floating sheep: mapping racist tweets in election

November 12, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Design UX, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama’s Re-election
Matthew Zook, floatingsheep.org

Note: for questions about the methodology/approach of this post, see the FAQ (added 16:20 EST 11/9/2012).
Note: as of 11:00 EST 11/10/2012, we have disabled commenting on this post.

During the day after the 2012…

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Judge who sent racist email to retire (politico.com)

Data about God and belief

November 12, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

This Week in God
Steve Benen, msnbc.com

First up from the God Machine this week is a look at the 2012 presidential election, and the differences along religious lines. The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life published a report this week based on exit polling data, and I put…

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