As I mentioned in my previous post, there is a vast amount of data available on the Internet, a lot of potential information. It is fantastic all the insights we can get from it not only for our businesses, but also for us as consumers, as users of Internet. Lately, when you look for something [...]
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Visualising Big Data
With all the generated electronic data, there is a new way of studying sociology. We can measure now what’s happening in real time on a particular event. It means a lot of computation, the new techniques to navigate on extremely large data-sets have to be used, but there is also a challenge on how to [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The semantic web: jumping on a graph
I have been very busy lately, with no time to write. But I attended great seminars meanwhile, like Pierre De Wilde from Tinkerpop talking at the GBI about the Property Graph model. He explained how we can construct and consult information in a graph database (‘traverse a graph’). A Graph database is composed of vertices [...]
Read the rest of this entry »I’m diving into Model Thinking
What is Model Thinking? It’s trying to findthe rules behind a particular behavior. Creating a model forces you to name the variables that have a role to play, making it explicit what has to be taken into account in order to predict a particular behavior. It’s great to come up with a model, but how [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Lies checked against Data on Internet
I loved this article from Andrew Phelp about an MIT student writing software that can highlight false claims in articles, just like spell check. What do you think of living in a word without lies? Where every fact could be proved true or faulse in seconds? Well, I’m going a little bit ahead. For now, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Data.gov.uk for Christmas!
Zoe Kleinman reported in the BBC NEWS that UK Government opens data to public. Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the WEB, is behind this project, big mentality change for the UK governement : An ambitious website that will open up government data to the public will launch in beta, or pilot, form in December. Reams of [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Can we predict social behavior from Internet data?
The New York Times posted an article from John Markoff :Government Aims to Build a ‘Data Eye in the Sky’, informing that a US Intelligence Unit launched a research program to analyse public data and find predictions of social and political relevance. Now social scientists are trying to mine the vast resources of the Internet [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Data Philanthropy is Good for Business
Give Data as you give Blood. Global Pulse, an innovation initiative in the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General, wants to analyse private data for the public good. The idea is to find patterns in data coming from private companies, and share those findings. For that, they have to find a way enterprises can deliver [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Rendez-vous with the EC research programme on Big Data
If you are in the area of Intelligent Information Management, check Roberto Zicari’s blog, he explains this call for projects from the European Commission in a simpler way than in the official site! Basically, they are funding projects in these areas: a) Reactive algorithms, infrastructures and methodologies b) Intelligent integrated systems c) Framework and tools [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Gosling sails away from Google and Android
I just read this article Gosling sails away from Google and Android, where they write about the last move of James Gosling (the father of Java) leaving Google for Liquid Robotics. Check the great autonomous and unmanned maritime vehicle they did: as Gosling says, the whole concept is really cool! Can you imagine the quantity [...]
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