A Blog about Machine Learning, Data Privacy and what it takes to make sense of the digital words in the rise of the digital millennium.
Big data began as a term used when you have extremely large data sets, These big data sets cannot be managed nor analyzed with conventional database programs not only because of the size exceeding the capacities of standard data management , but also because of the variety and unstructured nature of the data (it comes Read More …
I recently got the new issue from Scientific American (October 2013), and in the front page was announced the article ‘The Data-Driven Society’ by Alex Pentland. I just had to read it 🙂 He co-leads the World Economic Forum on Big Data and Personal Data initiatives. He was talking about all the digital bread crumbs Read More …
As we already discussed on my Big Data presentations, being able to analyse the amount of data that traces all our actions and movements is a great opportunity to improve our lives, as much as to do business, but it can also be exploited for the worst. Now Edward Snowden has put a clear case Read More …
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 Read More …
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 More …
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 More …
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 More …
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 More …
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 Read More …
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 More …