Big Data
It could be one of the most important innovations on the Internet since the browser. Imagine an open-source, crowd-sourced, community-moderated, distributed platform for sentence-level annotation of the Web. In other words, a way to cut through the babble and restore some sanity and trust.
The Internet, peer-reviewed
It seems like a great idea: Provide instant corrections to web-surfers when they run across obviously false information on the Internet.
False beliefs persist, even after instant online corrections
Curation
Data Visualization / Infographics
For Start-Ups, Sorting the Data Cloud Is the Next Big Thing
“My smartphone produces a huge amount of data, my car produces ridiculous amounts of really valuable data, my house is throwing off data, everything is making data,” said Erik Swan, 47, co-founder of Splunk, a San Francisco-based start-up whose software indexes vast quantities of machine-generated data into searchable links. Companies search those links, as one searches Google, to analyze customer behavior in real time. Splunk is among a crop of enterprise software start-up companies that analyze big data and are establishing themselves in territory long controlled by giant business-technology vendors like Oracle and I.B.M. Founded in 2004, before the term “big data” had worked its way into the vocabulary of Silicon Valley, Splunk now has some 3,200 customers in more than 75 countries, including more than half the Fortune 100 companies.
How Big Data Gets Real
Facebook Twitter Google+ Save E-mail Share Print The business of Big Data, which involves collecting large amounts of data and then searching it for patterns and new revelations, is the result of cheap storage, abundant sensors and new software. It has become a multibillion-dollar industry in less than a decade. Growing at speed like that, it is easy to miss how much remains to do before the industry has proven standards. Until then, lots of customers are probably wasting much of their money.Kris Snibbe/Harvard University At Harvard, Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel, standing center and right, are among those working on a browser to note changes in language over time. Denise Applewhite/Princeton University David Blei, a professor at Princeton. David M.
Words by the Millions, Sorted by Software
FACTUAL sells data to corporations and independent software developers on a sliding scale, based on how much the information is used. Small data feeds for things like prototypes are free; contracts with its biggest customers run into the millions. Sometimes, Factual trades data with other companies, building its resources.
Factual’s Gil Elbaz Wants to Gather the Data Universe
Down in the Data Dumps: Researchers Inventory a World of Information
Technology :: News :: February 10, 2011 :: :: Email :: Print Nature still has the upper hand in terms of information storage and computational capacity, but this will not always be the caseArtwork: Tamar Cohen, Andrew J Buboltz, 2011, silk screen on a page from a high school yearbook, 8.5" x 12" When Jonathan Goldman arrived for work in June 2006 at LinkedIn, the business networking site, the place still felt like a start-up. The company had just under 8 million accounts, and the number was growing quickly as existing members invited their friends and colleagues to join. But users weren’t seeking out connections with the people who were already on the site at the rate executives had expected.
Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century
How Companies Learn Your Secrets
Pole has a master’s degree in statistics and another in economics, and has been obsessed with the intersection of data and human behavior most of his life. His parents were teachers in North Dakota, and while other kids were going to 4-H, Pole was doing algebra and writing computer programs. “The stereotype of a math nerd is true,” he told me when I spoke with him last year.Everything We Know About What Data Brokers Know About You
But many people still don't even know that data brokers exist [3] .
In telephone call centers, for example, where hourly workers handle a steady stream of calls under demanding conditions, the communication skills and personal warmth of an employee’s supervisor are often crucial in determining the employee’s tenure and performance.
Big Data, Trying to Build Better Workers
What data is being collected on you? Some shocking info
On August 31, 2009, politician Malte Spitz traveled from Berlin to Erlangen, sending 29 text messages as he traveled. On November 5, 2009, he rocked out to U2 at the Brandenburg Gate. On January 10, 2010, he made 10 outgoing phone calls while on a trip to Dusseldorf, and spent 22 hours, 53 minutes and 57 seconds of the day connected to the internet. How do we know all this?How Facebook Uses Your Data to Target Ads, Even Offline
If you feel like Facebook has more ads than usual, you aren't imagining it: Facebook's been inundating us with more and more ads lately, and using your information—both online and offline —to do it. Here's how it works, and how you can opt out."I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.