Cloud and Analytics in Education Change the Dynamics of Parenting
The iconic little red schoolhouse may be a thing of the past, but its meaning isn’t lost. Education is still considered a community effort, hopefully involving parents and members of the greater...
View ArticleLearning to Predict Death with Big Data
Death. Many of the discussions around data revolve around death. These discussions are typically pretty mundane. Why do phone calls die? Why do banks go out of business? What makes servers and other...
View ArticleTell Your Kids to Be Data Scientists, Not Doctors
Recently I had the pleasure of being interviewed by John Phillips at CNBC about our data scientist salary study. His article, Why Your Kids Will Want to be Data Scientists, was published at the end of...
View ArticleA Crafty Machine That Can Decipher Images on Pinterest and Instagram
Curalate is trying to solve that problem with a image recognition platform its founders say can see images in much the same way the human brain does. But the company isn't building a search engine....
View ArticleMachine Learning and Cognitive Systems: The Next Evolution of Enterprise...
IBM’s recent announcements of three new services based in Watson technology make it clear that there is pressure in the enterprise software space to incorporate new technologies, both in hardware and...
View ArticleWellness Tech Is Finding Its Human Voice
Wearables have been spilling into the mainstream consciousness, and are now — some say — geared to take the market by storm. Whether it’s wrist bands such as Jawbone’s UP, Nike+ Fuelband and Fitbit’s...
View ArticleMobile Moments: Baby Steps on the Road to Personalization
According to Forrester, a mobile moment is a point in time and space when someone pulls out a mobile device to get what he or she wants immediately, in context. Whether you subscribe to Forrester’s...
View ArticleWhy Big Data Isn’t Enough: Tomorrow’s Technology Will Be Built Around Workflows
Big data is all the rage. Everywhere you turn it seems companies are discussing new and different ways to analyze data. The problem? There is an initial euphoria, usually after a large initial...
View ArticleRewiring to Tackle Unstructured Data
Extracting value from (Big) Data requires the right tools for extraction. In the pursuit of this value, large enterprises and administrations have spent very large sums of money on tools for data...
View ArticlePredictive Analytics: Potential Cure for What Ails the American Economy?
The way we hire and manage employees in America is fundamentally broken. Not only are unemployment rates still high in most cities, but approximately 32 percent of the current unemployed population has...
View ArticleBig Data: New Oil or Snake Oil?
There are two differing perspectives on Big Data and its value. One is that it is a valuable commodity that flows through an organization powering the engines of new insight and action, the other is...
View ArticleAfter IBM Deal With Twitter, Watson Supercomputer Can Mine Mountains of Tweets
Watson, the artificially intelligent IBM supercomputer, can already beat you at Jeopardy. And soon, it will know more than you do about what’s happening on Twitter, too. It’s part of a deal the two...
View ArticleEnough With ‘Feel Good’ Data Science
Your SaaS startup reaches its two-year anniversary, and you lock a new round of funding. Every measure of customer success is strong. Users report high levels of satisfaction. They log in a lot, they...
View ArticleWith the Rise of Online Developer Tools, Startup New Relic Files for IPO
Web monitoring company New Relic is filing for an initial public offering. According to paperwork filed with the Security Exchange Commission, the company plans to trade under the ticker symbol NEWR...
View ArticleThe ‘Adjacent Possible’ of Big Data: What Evolution Teaches About Insights...
Stuart Kauffman in 2002 introduced the the “adjacent possible” theory. This theory proposes that biological systems are able to morph into more complex systems by making incremental, relatively less...
View ArticleHow Facebook Knows You Better Than Your Friends Do
A new study reveals that computers may be a better judge of character than any human ever could be. The post How Facebook Knows You Better Than Your Friends Do appeared first on WIRED.
View ArticleInternet of Things — The Space Junk Challenge
As we power on towards the new and exciting future the Internet of Things (IoT) promises, I’m reminded of the single greatest issue we all face, more challenging than the networks, more problematic...
View ArticleThe Man Who Knows Whether Any Startup Will Live or Die
Thomas Thurston wants to reduce the risks of entrepreneurship -- and stabilize the economy -- by using data science to evaluate business plans. The post The Man Who Knows Whether Any Startup Will Live...
View ArticleHealth Wearables: The Sherlock Holmes Effect
Wearing his now-iconic hat, clamping a pipe between his teeth, Sherlock Holmes endures as the very definition of deductive reasoning. His encyclopedic knowledge and diamond-sharp observation skills...
View ArticleIBM Knows What Makes Serena Williams So Good
And it's based on more than just a hunch. The post IBM Knows What Makes Serena Williams So Good appeared first on WIRED.
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