Show me the (meta) data. Who owns the trail of digital breadcrumbs you're leaving behind? Is understanding who you know and how you know them and where you visit and what you're interested in and what you buy worth anything? Perhaps you should own it. Richard Thaler's provocative idea shouldn't be that provocative, and it represents a significant business opportunity. He argues that you (not some company) ought to own your caller history, your credit card history, etc.
If it was available to you as a machine-readable file, you could easily submit it to another company and see if there was a better deal available. This is an idea that feels inevitable to me, and I think that entrepreneurs shouldn't wait for the government to require it. Data about data is more important than ever, and being on the side of the person creating that data is a smart place to be.
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Yahoo’s S4: Distributed Stream Computing Platform First off, it must be said. S4 is NOT real-time map-reduce! S4 is a distributed, scalable, partially fault-tolerant, pluggable platform that allows users to create applications that process unbounded streaming data. Pieces of data, apparently called events, are sent and consumed by a Processing Element (yes, PE, but not the kind that requires you to sweat). Emit another event that will be consumed by another PE, orpublish some result Streaming data is different from non-streaming data in that the user does not know how much data will be transmitted, and at what rate. More information can be found at the S4 Wiki and S4 main site, that contains tutorials, a manual, a cookbook as well as API documentation. 6 Resources for Business Intelligence News and Information -Bime - SAAS Business Intelligence (BI) Télécoms | Opérateurs cherchent croissance. Flight & Expulsion. SAS acquires Assetlink to help marketers deliver smarter, more efficient campaigns | SAS Press Releases | Share on LinkedIn.
Bharti Airtel Turns to IBM for an Information-Led Transformation. Petewarden/iPhoneTracker @ GitHub. This open-source application maps the information that your iPhone is recording about your movements. It doesn't record anything itself, it only displays files that are already hidden on your computer. Download the application Read the FAQ Authors Alasdair Allan (alasdair@babilim.co.uk) @aallan on Twitter Pete Warden (pete@petewarden.com) @petewarden on Twitter This application relies on map tiles from the volunteer-run OpenStreetMap project, so please consider supporting their great work. Download Source You can download this project in either zip or tar formats. You can also clone the project with Git by running: $ git clone Is there a Windows version?
Is there a Windows version? The file exists on PCs too, but we haven't written a version of the application that runs on Windows ourselves. How does the application work? How can I examine the data without running the application? ~/Downloads/iphonels.py | grep "consolidated" No. It’s unclear.