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.
Two weeks ago was the Data Innovation Summit 2016. I was due to speak using the presentation format of ‘ignite’. For the ones who don’t know this format, it’s a nightmare! Out of joke, it means that slides go automatically at regular intervals (15″ in my case). You cannot stop it, you don’t control the flow… Read More …
This last Tuesday, I lead the ‘Discover Big Data’ workshop at the First European Celebration of Women in Computing. There were many parallel sessions that morning and I received some questions about my presentation from the participants that couldn’t divide themselves to attend this workshop 😉 Welcome to the Big Data workshop, we need women Read More …
Due to last events in Belgium, the terrorist bomb attacks in Zaventem and Brussels, I couldn’t but remember the article from Bloomberg Businessweek talking about pre-crime: ‘China Tries Its Hand at Pre-Crime’. They refer us to the film Minority Report, with Tom Cruise, that takes place in a future society where three mutants foresee all 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 …
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 Read More …
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 More …
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: 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 …
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 More …
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 More …