L’histoire de l’innovation contemporaine c’est les Big Data

THE COUNTRY'S PROBLEM IN A NUTSHELL: Apple's Huge New Data Center In North Carolina Created Only 50 Jobs Apple Yes, it's huge. But only 50 people work there. Optimists argue that the solution to the US's sky-high unemployment and income inequality is more companies like Apple--the resurgent tech company that has revolutionized the digital industry and become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Apple has not not only created amazing, beloved products. If only America produced more companies like Apple (and Amazon, and Google, and Facebook, et al), the story goes, the country's problems would be fixed. It is true that having more companies like Apple would certainly help the US. But we would need a lot more companies like Apple to make a dent in our unemployment and inequality problems. Why? Because Apple also actually exemplifies some of the reasons why we have such huge unemployment and inequality problems: Now, of course Apple also helps employ an "ecosystem" of other companies that build products that work with Apple products, such as iPhone apps.

Suisse: une clinique dans un musée guérit les intoxiqués de l'information Suisse: une clinique dans un musée guérit les intoxiqués de l'information BERNE (Suisse) - Affaire DSK, crise de la dette grecque, guerre en Libye... Trop d'informations peut rendre malade. Dès lors, un traitement s'impose. Dès son arrivée, le visiteur découvre dans une salle plongée dans une semi-obscurité 12.000 livres entassés sur des étagères. En principe la communication est quelque chose d'important, quelque chose qui fait plaisir, mais de nos jours il y a un flot d'information, explique à l'AFP la directrice du musée de la Communication, Jacqueline Strauss. On peut comparer ça avec l'alimentation. Selon les experts de l'université de Berne qui ont participé à l'exposition, un être humain peut lire un livre de 350 pages en une journée s'il se concentre et n'a rien d'autre à faire. La Clinique de la communication qu'elle a mise en place dans cette exposition, se veut donc avant-tout une prise de conscience. Etes-vous stressé, débordé, lessivé?

Big Data : la nécessité d’un débat Il nous a semblé intéressant de traduire, de façon collaborative (via Framapad), l’essai original que viennent de publier danah boyd et Kate Crawford présentant « Six provocations au sujet du phénomène des Big Data ».Ces chercheuses, orientées vers l’ethnographie des usages des technologies de communication, s’interrogent – en toute connaissance de cause [cf. cette étude sur les tweets des révolutions tunisiennes et égyptiennes à laquelle a participé danah boyd]- sur les limites épistémologiques, méthodologiques, mais aussi éthiques des Big Data : champ d’études qui s’ouvre aujourd’hui sur la base des énormes jeux de données que fournit internet, en particulier celles générées par l’activité des usagers des sites de réseaux sociaux, que seuls des systèmes informatiques ont la capacité de collecter et de traiter. 6 provocations à propos des Big Data Traduction : Pierre Grosdemouge (@cultord) & Fred Pailler (@Sociographie) à l’initiative de Laurence Allard. L’ère de Big Data a commencé.

Six Provocations for Big Data by Danah Boyd, Kate Crawford The era of Big Data has begun. Computer scientists, physicists, economists, mathematicians, political scientists, bio-informaticists, sociologists, and many others are clamoring for access to the massive quantities of information produced by and about people, things, and their interactions. Diverse groups argue about the potential benefits and costs of analyzing information from Twitter, Google, Verizon, 23andMe, Facebook, Wikipedia, and every space where large groups of people leave digital traces and deposit data. This essay offers six provocations that we hope can spark conversations about the issues of Big Data. (This paper was presented at Oxford Internet Institute’s “A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society” on September 21, 2011.)

Big Data’s Impact in the World Mo Zhou was snapped up by I.B.M. last summer, as a freshly minted Yale M.B.A., to join the technology company’s fast-growing ranks of data consultants. They help businesses make sense of an explosion of data — Web traffic and social network comments, as well as software and sensors that monitor shipments, suppliers and customers — to guide decisions, trim costs and lift sales. “I’ve always had a love of numbers,” says Ms. To exploit the data flood, America will need many more like her. The impact of data abundance extends well beyond business. The story is similar in fields as varied as science and sports, advertising and public health — a drift toward data-driven discovery and decision-making. Welcome to the Age of Big Data. Rick Smolan, creator of the “Day in the Life” photography series, is planning a project later this year, “The Human Face of Big Data,” documenting the collection and uses of data. What is Big Data?

Why We Should Learn the Language of Data Illustration: Ellen Lupton How can global warming be real when there’s so much snow?” Hearing that question — repeatedly — this past February drove Joseph Romm nuts. A massive snowstorm had buried Washington, DC, and all across the capital, politicians and pundits who dispute the existence of climate change were cackling. The family of Oklahoma senator Jim Inhofe built an igloo near the Capitol and put up a sign reading “Al Gore’s New Home“. Romm — a physicist and climate expert with the Center for American Progress — spent a week explaining to reporters why this line of reasoning is so wrong. Statistics is hard. Consider the economy: Is it improving or not? Problem is, to calculate that stat, economists remove stores that have closed from their sample. Or take the raging debate over childhood vaccination, where well-intentioned parents have drawn disastrous conclusions from anecdotal information. Granted, thinking statistically is tricky. That’s precisely the point.

How much information is there in the world? Think you're overloaded with information? Not even close. A study appearing on Feb. 10 in Science Express, an electronic journal that provides select Science articles ahead of print, calculates the world's total technological capacity -- how much information humankind is able to store, communicate and compute. "We live in a world where economies, political freedom and cultural growth increasingly depend on our technological capabilities," said lead author Martin Hilbert of the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. So how much information is there in the world? Prepare for some big numbers: Looking at both digital memory and analog devices, the researchers calculate that humankind is able to store at least 295 exabytes of information. Telecommunications grew 28 percent annually, and storage capacity grew 23 percent a year. "These numbers are impressive, but still miniscule compared to the order of magnitude at which nature handles information" Hilbert said.

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