In this TED Talk, Anne Milgram discusses her past role as New Jersey’s attorney general and her quest to use data to understand “who we were arresting, who we were charging, and who we were putting in jail.”
“Data exhaust” is the focal point of Splunk’s business. It includes “byproduct” data from things like GPS, RFID, hypervisor, web servers, email, messaging, clickstreams, mobile, telephony, databases, and more, data that is created simply by the act of running a machine.
Newsletters and listservs are a good way of keeping your finger on the pulse of the latest tech news and delivering to you the news you didn’t know you needed. You’re busy enough staying on top of your own work, so why not let someone else curate the news for you?
Michael Lewis’ Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game describes “a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can’t buy: the secret of success in baseball.” The answer? Sabermetrics.
More refinement of current data practices and regulations may need to be made before there is a general comfort with anonymized data. If the general population is not comfortable with data gathering, then restrictions on use could hamstring the impact of big data.
Moore’s Law posits that the number of transistors that can be manufactured on a computer chip will approximately double every two years, increasing computer processing power and bringing us into new ages of digital storage. Does it still hold true?
What’s the difference between “structured” and “unstructured” data? Can the same tools be used for both? What information can we derive from these data sets?
In the mid-2000s, a team that included faculty from the UC Berkeley School of Information began to use large-scale data to investigate a variety of questions about romantic relationship formation in online settings.
