Lana Winter-Hébert, lifehack.org Oh, the Brits. No-one can snark quite like they do, and there are certain turns of phrase that are so utterly delightful, the rest of the world really should sit up and take note. Below are just a few common British expressions that you might like… 75 Simple British Slang Expressions You…
5 Reasons Why Consumer Collaboration and Big Data Are a Perfect Match BY Diane Hessan, inc.com Data reveals patterns. Once you add consumer insights, you can innovate for the future based on what you know now. In an article in the Harvard Business Review called “Collaborative Advantage: The Art of Alliances,” my friend… Related articles…
New MIT Media Lab Tool Lets Anyone Visualize Unwieldy Government Data fastcodesign.com Innovation By Design DataViva, a project developed in part by Media Lab professor César Hidalgo, aims to make a wide swath of government economic data usable with a series of visualization apps. In the four years since the U.S. government… http://flip.it/E0nsK Related articles…
In The Hospital Of The Future, Big Data Is One Of Your Doctors fastcoexist.com From our genomes to Jawbones, the amount of data about health is exploding. Bringing on top Silicon Valley talent, one NYC hospital is preparing for a future where it can analyze and predict its patients’ health needs—and maybe change our… http://flip.it/CftJ7…
Jawbone Tracked Hundreds Of Thousands Of Up Users To Find The Most Sleep-Deprived States BY REBECCA GREENFIELD, fastcompany.com Jawbone anonymized sleep data from Up wearers and discovered some interesting trends about how we as a country snooze. For one, they do it better in Colorado (blame the weed?). You’d think that people would have some…
Is Your Pee The Right Color? [Infographic] By Kelsey D. Atherton, popsci.com Several times a day, human bodies release a stream of data about internal health. Unfortunately, the data comes analog, and so isn’t immediately accessible as useful information. Now an infographic from the Cleveland Clinic off… http://flip.it/IfZGH Related articles Is Your Pee The Right…
Software Scans Journal Papers, Finds 1 In 4 Have Suspicious Images By Francie Diep, popsci.com Italian biologist Enrico Bucci originally developed his startup’s software to make scientists’ lives easier. The software is a search engine that automatically pulls images from published scientific papers. Say you’re study… http://flip.it/kf1lf
Sentient code: An inside look at Stephen Wolfram’s utterly new, insanely ambitious computational paradigm John Koetsier, venturebeat.com Tickets on Sale Now In 2002 Stephen Wolfram released A New Kind of Science and immediately unleashed a firestorm of wonder, controversy, and criticism as the British-born scientist, programmer, and entrepreneur overturn… http://flip.it/kLzwP Related articles Sentient code: An…
White House To Universities: We Need More Data Scientists BY NEAL UNGERLEIDER, fastcompany.com New York University, University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Washington are launching a $37.8 million project to boost the numbers of American data scientists. It’s official: America needs more data scientists. This week, a… http://flip.it/i9VYj Related articles UC Berkeley BIDS Launch…
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