Last week I presented this topic to professional women at PWI here in Brussels. It’s called ‘small talk’ because it is not a technical presentation but one for a broader audience, to create awareness on this Big Data trend. The main concept I wanted them to take away is the change in the business arena [...]
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Popularity ranking for five main crowdsourcing categories
Eric Blattberg, in his article The five crowdsourcing categories ranked: Popularity in social media gives us an analysis of how these 5 crowdsourcing categories ranked last year: cloud labor, crowd creativity, crowdfunding, distributed knowledge and open innovation. Here are the main results: What do the world’s social media users think about crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing.org partnered [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Can a big leak on privacy stop Big Data?
Bill Franks is Chief Analytics Officer for Teradata’s global alliance programs. So he knows more than a little about what’s going on in the Advanced Analytics space. He predicted on the International Institute for Analytics’ 2012 that the evolution of big data will depend on how the privacy issue would be handled. He said: [...]
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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 »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 »Interconnexion fuels Innovation
I enjoyed reading this analysis of innovation from Matt Ridley in reason.com, here are his conclusions : Ideas Having Sex: How prosperity and innovation exceeded the expectations of John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith Innovators are in the business of sharing. It is the most important thing they do, for unless they share their innovation [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Color App creates elastic networks
Color is a new photo-sharing application for iPhone and Android phones. It allows you to share the photos you have taken through it with any other Color user near you. And you get to see also his or her pictures They defined a ‘proximity’ criteria, that creates local temporary networks. As soon as you [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Crowdsourcing in Search and Data Mining
Here are some Notes from “Crowdsourcing in Search and Data Mining” (CSDM) workshop taken by Panos Ipeirotis. The workshop took place in Hong Kong, just a few days ago, and tackled different issues on crowdsourcing, like: – When should we let people talk to each other vs let them work independently? – How Crowdsourçable is [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Clicks: where did you think the data was coming from?
All these buzz about tracking clicks began with Bing, but goes well beyond that Search Engine. Read this article, it talks about clicks and other telemetries (remote measurement and reporting of information). There are a lot of examples of applications where you have been tracked, knowingly or not. You could see it as: you give [...]
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