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.
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 …
CrowdFlower Reports Revenue of 300% Year Over Year and More Than 300 Million Enterprise Level Crowdsourced Microtasks Completed, Earning #1 Rank in Industry CrowdFlower is a microtasking crowdsourcing enterprise. The company solves information-based problems like product categorization, SEO content creation, web verifications, etc… by splitting the task into small pieces (micro-tasks), and giving them to Read More …
I saw the announcement of a webinar at Standford University on Positive Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine, and was curious about it. With such an attractive title, what could it be about? You can check the whole presentation on YouTube, he is announcib his new book, but the idea behind Positive Intelligence is to move yourself 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 …
This will be a personal post. At New Year’s Eve approach, I’m beginning to do the balance of this past year. I can but encourage you to do the same and if you don’t do it at another time, make good use of this traditional calendar date and think about it, as with the daily Read More …
Jennifer Marcus’ article UCLA neuroscientists demonstrate crucial advances in ‘brain reading’ details a study done by theLaboratory of Integrative Neuroimaging Technology. UCLA neuroscientist researchers just released the promising results of a study, where they measured the prediction of machine learning algorithms on ‘brain reading’ (also called ‘brain decoding’). The research was funded by the National Read More …
Check this article from David Bratvoldt, Enterprise Crowdsourcing blasts off as social media growth industry. His research forsees a growth of the crowdsourcing microtask sector of around 355% this year. I am interested in your opinion: Are you hearing about crowdsourcing in the enterprises around you? Do you think it’s good or bad for our 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 …
Julie Meyer, founder and CEO of Ariadne Capital, was also very interesting calling the economy in our 21st. century the ‘Individualist Capitalism’. Her very clever message to all entrepreneurs was: Look at your ‘Natural Allies’, ask yourself who has interest in your success. They are going to be there and help you to be successful! Read More …