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Big Data, Search Engines, Tweets

2014-12-21T00:00:00.000-05:00

Tweets about search engine OR big data

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Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, Artificial Intelligence, Google

2014-12-14T21:51:00.000-05:00

Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, Artificial Intelligence, Google--

Demis Hassabis, Founder of DeepMind Technologies and Artificial-Intelligence Wunderkind at Google, Wants Machines to Think Like Us | MIT Technology Review: "... Google snapped up DeepMind shortly after it demonstrated software capable of teaching itself to play classic video games to a super-human level (see “Is Google Cornering the Market on Deep Learning?”). At the TED conference in Vancouver this year, Google CEO Larry Page gushed about Hassabis and called his company’s technology “one of the most exciting things I’ve seen in a long time.” Researchers are already looking for ways that DeepMind technology could improve some of Google’s existing products, such as search. But if the technology progresses as Hassabis hopes, it could change the role that computers play in many fields. DeepMind seeks to build artificial intelligence software that can learn when faced with almost any problem. This could help address some of the world’s most intractable problems, says Hassabis. “AI has huge potential to be amazing for humanity,” he says. “It will really accelerate progress in solving disease and all these things we’re making relatively slow progress on at the moment.”..." (read more at the link above)

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Google, Amazon, Web Services, Data

2014-11-30T07:00:00.000-05:00

Look at what Google and Amazon are doing with databases: That's your future | ZDNet: "...."If you're interested in seeing the future of how data-oriented architectures are likely to evolve, the future is already here — just unevenly distributed," Eifrem said. "What that means is if you look at some of the big web services — the Googles and the Amazons of the world — they are already today dealing with the volume and shape of data that everyone else will be working on in five years from now."...."

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Google Flu Trends, Traditional Data

2014-11-23T07:00:00.000-05:00

The New Thing in Google Flu Trends Is Traditional Data - NYTimes.com: "...The main critique came in an analysis done by four quantitative social scientists, published earlier this year in an article in Science magazine, “The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis.” The researchers found that the most accurate flu predictor was a data mash-up that combined Google Flu Trends, which monitored flu-related search terms, with the official C.D.C. reports from doctors on influenza-like illness. The Google Flu Trends team is heeding that advice. In the blog post, written by Christian Stefansen, a Google senior software engineer, wrote, “We’re launching a new Flu Trends model in the United States that — like many of the best performing methods in the literature — takes official CDC flu data into account as the flu season progresses.”..."

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Drowning In Data

2014-11-16T07:00:00.000-05:00

The vast majority of data never gets used. In fact, as MIT Technology Review Senior Editor Antonio Regalado noted in a 2013 article, only 0.5 percent of all data is ever analyzed.

Big Data: Creating the Power to Move Heaven and Earth | MIT Technology Review: :... more data has been created in just the last two years than in the entire previous history of the human race, according to the Scandinavian research group SINTEF. A quick search of the term “Big Data” yields a tangle of statistics, some as superlative as the term they attempt to define... By 2020, about 1.7 megabytes of new information will be created every second for every human being on the planet, according to the annual IDC Digital Universe study. At that point, the world will be looking at digital knowledge in the neighborhood of 44 zettabytes, or 44 trillion gigabytes, up from just 4.4 zettabytes today..."

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How Many Rape Reports Are False?

2014-11-09T07:00:00.000-05:00

How Many Rape Reports Are False? - Bloomberg View: "....How many women falsely accuse men of rape? A lot of statistics are floating around the Internet: Two percent, say many feminists, the same as other crimes. Twenty-five percent, say other groups who quarrel with the feminists on many issues, or maybe 40 percent. Here’s the real answer: We don’t know. Anyone who insists that we do know should be corrected or ignored. The number of false accusations is what statisticians call a “dark number” -- that is, there is a true number, but it is unknown, and perhaps unknowable. For a deep dive into the reasons it’s so hard to know, I commend you to Cathy Young’s new piece at Slate, in which she details all the problems that confound investigations into false rape accusations. Here’s what we do know: The 2 percent number is very bad and should never be cited. It apparently traces its lineage back to Susan Brownmiller’s legendary "Against Our Will," and her citation for this figure is a single speech by an appellate judge before a small group of lawyers. His source for this statistic was a single area of New York that started having policewomen conduct all rape interviews. This is not data. It is an anecdote about an anecdote...." (read more at link above)

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What Is All That Data Worth?

2014-11-02T07:00:00.000-05:00

What’s All That Data Worth? - WSJ: "...“When those kinds of questions arise, they overwhelm the matter,” said Dennis Beresford, who was FASB’s chairman from 1987 to 1997. The lack of consensus on how to measure data’s value creates an especially big blind spot for investors in tech giants like Facebook Inc., eBay Inc. EBAY -0.50% and Google, which rely on the data they collect for the bulk of their revenue. “A lot of what is going on at the companies is not being reflected in public disclosures or the accounting,” said Glen Kernick, a managing director at investment-banking and valuation advisory firm Duff & Phelps Corp...." (read more at link above)

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Big Data Just Killed Happy Hour (video)

2014-10-26T08:00:00.000-04:00

Big Data Just Killed Happy Hour -

One of the hottest fields in high-tech right now is big data -- making sense of huge amounts of information on everything from shopping to dating. And now for beer. Bloomberg's Elliott Gotkine reports. (Source: Bloomberg - Sept 22)

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Get Good With Data

2014-10-19T08:00:00.000-04:00

good at understanding and presenting data:
Last Call — Medium: "...The first piece of advice is the most widely discussed in journalism circles — get good with numbers. The old ‘story accompanied by a chart’ was merely data next to journalism; increasingly, the data is the journalism. Nate Silver has changed our sense of political prediction. ProPublica has tied databases to storytelling better than anyone in the country. Homicide Watch can report more murders (all of them, in fact), using fewer people, than the Washington Post. Learning to code is the gold standard, but even taking an online class in statistics and getting good at Google spreadsheets will help. Anything you can do to make yourself more familiar with finding, understanding, and presenting data will set you apart from people you’ll be competing with, whether to keep your current job or get a new one..."

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Data, Prisoners in the United States

2014-10-12T08:00:00.000-04:00

Prisoners in the United States | Statista: "No country in the world puts more people in jail than the United States. Currently, more than 2.2 million people in the U.S. sit behind bars. Astonishingly, that means the United States has more prisoners than high school teachers, engineers, physicians or lawyers."

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Biggest Florida Gold Heist, Google Search Catches Suspect After Year-Long Manhunt

2014-10-05T08:00:00.000-04:00

Suspect in Biggest Gold Heist in Florida History Caught After Year-Long Manhunt - ABC News: "Border patrol guards, weary of Valdez’s story, plugged his name into the international police database, Interpol, but nothing came up, Bolton said. They then Googled his name and that’s when the pieces started coming together. “They did a Google and found the ‘Wanted’ poster I had posted online,” Bolton told ABCNews.com. The border patrol guards immediately contacted Bolton in Florida, who within minutes had them in touch with the U.S. Marshal Service, who verified that Valdez was indeed the man they were looking for." (read more at link above)

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Big Data, Machine Learning, Google Translate

2014-09-28T08:00:00.000-04:00

Big Data, Machine Learning, Google Translate--the data-driven algorithmic black box--

"... New, large, cheap data sets and powerful analytical tools will pay dividends – nobody doubts that. And there are a few cases in which analysis of very large data sets has worked miracles. David Spiegelhalter of Cambridge points to Google Translate, which operates by statistically analysing hundreds of millions of documents that have been translated by humans and looking for patterns it can copy. This is an example of what computer scientists call “machine learning”, and it can deliver astonishing results with no preprogrammed grammatical rules. Google Translate is as close to theory-free, data-driven algorithmic black box as we have – and it is, says Spiegelhalter, “an amazing achievement”. That achievement is built on the clever processing of enormous data sets...."
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Causation, Sampling Bias, Big Problems With Big Data

2014-09-21T08:00:00.000-04:00

Problems With Big Data?

The promise that “N = All”, and therefore that sampling bias does not matter, is simply not true in most cases that count. As for the idea that “with enough data, the numbers speak for themselves” – that seems hopelessly naive in data sets where spurious patterns vastly outnumber genuine discoveries. “Big data” has arrived, but big insights have not. The challenge now is to solve new problems and gain new answers – without making the same old statistical mistakes on a grander scale than ever. (source infra)

Big data: are we making a big mistake? - FT.com: "...Big data is a vague term for a massive phenomenon that has rapidly become an obsession with entrepreneurs, scientists, governments and the media... As with so many buzzwords, “big data” is a vague term, often thrown around by people with something to sell... Consultants urge the data-naive to wise up to the potential of big data. A recent report from the McKinsey Global Institute reckoned that the US healthcare system could save $300bn a year – $1,000 per American – through better integration and analysis of the data produced by everything from clinical trials to health insurance transactions to smart running shoes. But while big data promise much to scientists, entrepreneurs and governments, they are doomed to disappoint us if we ignore some very familiar statistical lessons. “There are a lot of small data problems that occur in big data,” says Spiegelhalter. “They don’t disappear because you’ve got lots of the stuff. They get worse.”.... Who cares about causation or sampling bias, though, when there is money to be made?...There’s a huge false positive issue...“We have a new resource here,” says Professor David Hand of Imperial College London. “But nobody wants ‘data’. What they want are the answers.” To use big data to produce such answers will require large strides in statistical methods....we’re flying a little bit blind at the moment...." (read more at the link above)

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Mobile Technology, Big Data, Health

2014-09-14T08:00:00.000-04:00

After decades as a technological laggard, medicine has entered its data age. Mobile technologies, sensors, genome sequencing, and advances in analytic software now make it possible to capture vast amounts of information about our individual makeup and the environment around us. The sum of this information could transform medicine, turning a field aimed at treating the average patient into one that’s customized to each person while shifting more control and responsibility from doctors to patients.(source infra)

Can Mobile Technologies and Big Data Improve Health? | MIT Technology Review: ".....The question is: can big data make health care better? “There is a lot of data being gathered. That’s not enough,” says Ed Martin, interim director of the Information Services Unit at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. “It’s really about coming up with applications that make data actionable.”

"The business opportunity in making sense of that data—potentially $300 billion to $450 billion a year, according to consultants McKinsey & Company—is driving well-established companies like Apple, Qualcomm, and IBM to invest in technologies from data-capturing smartphone apps to billion-dollar analytical systems. It’s feeding the rising enthusiasm for startups as well. Venture capital firms like Greylock Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, as well as the corporate venture funds of Google, Samsung, Merck, and others, have invested more than $3 billion in health-care information technology since the beginning of 2013—a rapid acceleration from previous years, according to data from Mercom Capital Group...."(read more at link above)

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Palantir, Propeller, Data

2014-09-07T08:00:00.000-04:00

Palantir snaps up Propeller — its second deal this week: ".... The two deals raise the question as to whether Palantir is embarking on an acquisition spree of consumer-facing apps. I’ve reached out to the company for more color, (update: the company declined to comment further) but until then, have some rampant speculation: The simple explanation seems to be Palantir has decided, ten years in, that it’s easier to buy talented data teams than to recruit them. The complex explanation, oversimplified: Palantir needs to enter new markets leading up to its IPO, as the slow sales cycle of its current markets — government, military and finance — isn’t appealing to Wall Street. Palantir is known for its secrecy (it even counts the CIA among its investors), but in recent months the company has tamped down IPO speculation, telling CNBC it has no plans to go public...."

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Data-Driven Health Care

2014-08-31T08:00:00.000-04:00

Inside the Business of Data-Driven Health Care | MIT Technology Review:

COMPANIES TO WATCH
Apple
-Computing hardware and software
-A new health app will be built into Apple’s next-generation operating system
-Vital statistic: 150.3 million iPhones were sold in 2013, for $91 billion in revenue...

Epic Systems
-Electronic records
-Makes the software health-care organizations and hospitals use to manage electronic records
-Vital statistic: 100 million patients’ records are accessible to companies using Epic’s health information exchange, Care Everywhere...

Google
-Web search giant
-A new Android app platform is Google’s second attempt at building a health business
-Vital statistic: There are more than 40,000 health apps available for Android phones, but only a handful have been downloaded by more than 500 users...

Illumina
-Genome sequencing
-Sells genome-sequencing machines and tools for analyzing the data
-Vital statistic: $1.42 billion in fiscal 2013 revenue...

Merck Global Health Innovation Fund
-Venture capital arm of pharmaceutical maker
-Invests in new digital health technologies
-Vital statistic: $500 million has been invested in more than 20 companies....

OUTSIDE READING
A PRIMER ON REIMBURSEMENT
FROM THE ARCHIVES
CONFERENCES
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Internet of Things, Streams of Big Data

2014-08-24T08:00:00.000-04:00

The Internet of Things Meets Big Data | Big Think | Think Tank: "Chris Curran, the Chief Technologist of PwC, spoke to Big Think about this great technological shift: "Most of the data we think about from an enterprise perspective is sort of modular, it's transactional, it's a call center call or it's a web transaction or it's a sale or it's a quote or it's a piece of data about a product. But the Internet of Things will be creating streams of data. So one of the analogies is how social media creates streams of data..."..."(read more at link above)

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Mobile Technologies, Big Data, Improve Health?

2014-08-17T08:00:00.000-04:00

Can Mobile Technologies and Big Data Improve Health? | MIT Technology Review: "After decades as a technological laggard, medicine has entered its data age. Mobile technologies, sensors, genome sequencing, and advances in analytic software now make it possible to capture vast amounts of information about our individual makeup and the environment around us. The sum of this information could transform medicine, turning a field aimed at treating the average patient into one that’s customized to each person while shifting more control and responsibility from doctors to patients. The question is: can big data make health care better? “There is a lot of data being gathered. That’s not enough,” says Ed Martin, interim director of the Information Services Unit at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. “It’s really about coming up with applications that make data actionable.” The business opportunity in making sense of that data—potentially $300 billion to $450 billion a year, according to consultants McKinsey & Company—is driving well-established companies like Apple, Qualcomm, and IBM to invest in technologies from data-capturing smartphone apps to billion-dollar analytical systems. It’s feeding the rising enthusiasm for startups as well. Venture capital firms like Greylock Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, as well as the corporate venture funds of Google, Samsung, Merck, and others, have invested more than $3 billion in health-care information technology since the beginning of 2013—a rapid acceleration from previous years, according to data from Mercom Capital Group... " (read more at link above)

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GlaxoSmithKline, Data Sharing

2014-08-10T08:00:00.000-04:00

GlaxoSmithKline Leads a Surprising Push for Data Sharing | MIT Technology Review: "... In May 2013, the company began posting its own data online. Then it invited others to join ClinicalStudyDataRequest.com, where GSK and six other drugmakers have already uploaded data from nearly 900 clinical trials, and more than a dozen research projects are under way. Trial transparency is appealing thanks to a growing sense that it could make drug development more efficient, saving the industry billions while also getting breakthrough therapies to patients more quickly....." (read more at link above)

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Data Doppelgängers, Personalization

2014-08-03T08:00:00.000-04:00

Data Doppelgängers and the Uncanny Valley of Personalization - Sara M. Watson - The Atlantic: "....As our behaviors, bodies, and environments are made legible as data, and as our online experiences mesh with our offline ones, we need to try to unpack these uncanny encounters with data. Throughout history, new technologies provoke moral panic and anxiety—in part because those technologies upend our understanding of time, place, and ourselves. But as we adopt and domesticate them, these technologies become integrated into our lives and embedded in the cultural fabric. The more time we spend time with our data doppelgängers, the more familiar they may become. That’s why it is so important to be able to scrutinize our data and hold accountable the systems collecting our data while those processes are still malleable. The same dominant sociotechnical systems that favor data for its objectivity put our subjectivity at risk. We need to demand more ways to keep our data doppelgängers in check." (read more at link above)

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China, Baidu, Andrew Ng, New Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Lab

2014-07-27T08:00:00.000-04:00

China's Baidu Hires Andrew Ng, Stanford Professor and Google's Deep Learning Collaborator, for New Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Lab | MIT Technology Review: "Baidu has long been referred to as “China’s Google” because it dominates Web search in the country. Today the comparison grew more apt: Baidu has opened a new artificial-intelligence research lab in Silicon Valley that will be overseen by Andrew Ng, a Stanford professor who played a key role at Google in a field called deep learning. He was also a cofounder of the online education company Coursera." (read more at link above)

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FTC, Congressional Review, Data Broker Industry

2014-07-20T08:00:00.000-04:00

FTC Report Seeks Congressional Review of Data Broker Industry | BakerHostetler - JDSupra:

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Data Broker? What you Need to Know

2014-07-13T08:00:00.000-04:00

Dealing with a Data Broker? Here's What you Need to Know | Pierce Atwood LLP - JDSupra:

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Statisticians, Bayesian Inference, Found Air France Flight 447

2014-07-06T08:00:00.000-04:00

How Statisticians Found Air France Flight 447 Two Years After It Crashed Into Atlantic | MIT Technology Review: "....Stone and co are statisticians who were brought in to reëxamine the evidence after four intensive searches had failed to find the aircraft. What’s interesting about this story is that their analysis pointed to a location not far from the last known position, in an area that had almost certainly been searched soon after the disaster. The wreckage was found almost exactly where they predicted at a depth of 14,000 feet after only one week’s additional search.... the underlying distribution was the probability of finding the wreckage at a given location. That depended on a number of factors such as the last GPS location transmitted by the plane, how far the aircraft might have traveled after that and also the location of dead bodies found on the surface once their rate of drift in the water had been taken into account...."

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How Companies Use Big Data to Cultivate a Brand (video)

2014-06-29T08:00:00.000-04:00

How Companies Can Use Big Data to Cultivate a Brand: Video - Bloomberg:
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Starcom MediaVest Group's Jeffrey Seah discusses how to attract and cultivate a brand with Zeb Eckert on Bloomberg Television's "On The Move Asia." (Source: Bloomberg May 30)

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