Jonathan Woodward sur Twitter : "Microsoft future #Productivity Vision - fueled by #DataCulture - Watch here. Productivity Future Vision. Privacy is at a crossroads. Choose wisely. Privacy is at a crossroads.
Choose wisely. Disclosure: I’m the Founder & CEO of DuckDuckGo, the search engine that doesn’t track you. I may be biased, but I’m also well-informed. Any day now President Obama is going to propose a new privacy bill of rights that will give you much more control over your personal information. A healthy debate will then ensue, and you can and should be a part of it. First things first, this is not a partisan issue. The NSA files have woken us all up to the perils of government and corporate surveillance. The important debates and reactions to government surveillance are still continuing, but we also need this new debate on corporate surveillance.
We’ve all noticed those annoying ads following us around the Internet. The bottom line is that if your personal information can be used to make companies more profits, then you have to expect it will be used to do so, unless legislation prevents it. Now to be clear I am no fan of government regulation. Data Point: British women hit harder by austerity than men. Nike taps into urban exploringJanuary 5, 2015 | 1:13 pm The city is the new terrain for Nike’s rebranded all-conditions gear, now named NikeLab ACG.
Taking a cue from the urban exploration trend (“urbex”)—which involves venturing into unseen and generally off-limits structures and documenting the adventure—Nike says that “For today’s athletes, the city is the ultimate landscape,” complete with “modern obstacles” and many microclimates. Lance #DataNoel : Who is the hashtag’s boss ? Du 1er au 25 décembre, Visibrain lance le hashtag #DataNoel pour connaître en exclusivité le top 3 des influenceurs sur n’importe quel sujet.
Le principe : interrogez #DataNoel, découvrez le maître du hashtag Vous rêvez de connaître les influenceurs sur un hashtag ? A l’occasion des fêtes de d’année, Visibrain Focus, la plateforme de social media analytics, ouvre la porte de ses données professionnelles pour exaucer vos souhaits. Le principe est simple. Tous les utilisateurs peuvent publier un tweet @visibrain contenant le hashtag #DataNoël et demander le top 3 des influenceurs sur le hashtag de leur choix.
Exemple : La méthodologie. Why You Have to Generate Your Own Data - Scott Anthony. Survey warns of looming consumer revolt on private data sharing. Related topicsData Data breach e-commerce Forecasts Related articles Share article 30googleplus Short of time?
Print this pageEmail article. Better Human Understanding, Not Big Data, Is the Future of Business. "The idea that business is strictly a numbers affair has always struck me as preposterous.
For one thing, I’ve never been particularly good at numbers, but I think I’ve done a reasonable job with feelings. And I’m convinced that it is feelings — and feelings alone — that account for the success of the Virgin brand in all of its myriad forms.” — Richard Branson Data-driven marketing. That phrase is used as if it means truth driven. That facts (data) drive decisions. But there’s danger in an obsession with being data driven. The danger lies in seeing these numbers as facts or truth. What’s wrong with that? And while there’s a benefit in improving analytics skills, there’s a very real danger as well. Where does the danger lie? Organizations Are Hypothesis Driven, Not Data Driven The danger lies in our mental models. Data enters our organizations, our spreadsheets, our analytics programs through the lens of mental models that cause us to filter and fit data to those models.
Forget Big Data: The future is Small Data, and Facebook just bought it – Quartz. Forget Big Data: The future is Small Data, and Facebook just bought it. This morning, Onavo, an Israeli start-up, announced it was being acquired by Facebook.
Onavo’s flagship product is a data compressor. When you browse a web page or use an app on your phone, Onavo routes the traffic through its servers, where it compresses and optimizes the data before sending it on to the phone. Call it “small data.” The result is you see exactly the same web page but less data comes out of your plan. This makes a big difference in markets where users are loath to exceed data limits for fear of punitive charges. With China closed off and an all-but-saturated market in the Western world, Silicon Valley firms are looking to the developing world for growth. Facebook, like Google, Twitter and Wikipedia, already has deals with many operators that allow users to access a lighter version of its service without incurring data charges. Onavo’s technology should make Facebook lighter for those who do pay for data. Journalism in the Age of Data: A Video Report on Data Visualization by Geoff McGhee.
A Practical Guide to Designing with Data ~ A Five Simple Steps book by Brian Suda.