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Using Big Data to Examine Culture
According to Psychology Today, scientists will be able to use big data on literature and develop a sense of what our culture is/was like.
If alien anthropologists wanted to learn about human behavior, they would likely examine our literary works. Among the embarrassing flotsam, they would also discover Thomas Paine’s The Age of Reason, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, or the lyrics to Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind.”
Read more...Big Data Makes Precision Possible
Big data will help the medical community bring truly personalized precision treatments to people, reports Entrepreneur.
Precision or personalized medicine is a novel approach that considers a person's genetics, lifestyle, and environment to determine the best course of treatment and prevention.
Read more...Just Having Access to Big Data Doesn't Mean You Use it Well
According to the Enterprisers Project, big data won’t make your organization make its decisions any faster.
Last week, I had coffee with a colleague who’s been working with a mid-sized organization on a big data initiative.
Read more...The Dark Side of Big Data
Big data used in applications such as personalized pricing models can have a detrimental effect reports the Conversation.
Mustafa loves good coffee. In his free time, he often browses high-end coffee machines that he cannot currently afford but is saving for. One day, travelling to a friend’s wedding abroad, he gets to sit next to another friend on the plane. When Mustafa complains about how much he paid for his ticket, it turns out that his friend paid less than half of what he paid, even though they booked around the same time.
Read more...What Happens to Bio Data?
Bio Data gathered isn’t available to all researchers, reports NPR. There are questions about how the data is made available for use.
More than a million Americans have donated genetic information and medical data for research projects. But how that information gets used varies a lot, depending on the philosophy of the organizations that have gathered the data.
Read more...Using Big Data to Predict Big Data
According to Forbes, Sumo Logic is in a unique position to see the future of big data based on the big data they currently collect.
Back in 2010, a team of self-described “data nerds” founded Sumo Logic. The vision was to build a platform to deliver–as a cloud native service–machine data analytics for anybody.
Read more...Using Big Data to Break Confidentiality
According to Forbes, researchers were able to use a combination of AI and Big Data to determine the participants in confidential legal cases.
"Legal confidentiality is a shield for citizens." These are the words of Shami Chakrabarti, the one-time director of the U.K.-based human rights group Liberty, speaking in 2018.
Read more...Battling Climate Change with Big Data
Companies can use big data and the internet of things to combat climate change, reports Forbes.
There are plenty of pervasive myths about the state of climate change today, like that it’s a far-off problem or that it can’t be real because it’s cold out.
Read more...Real Estate Gets into Big Data
Companies are bringing big data to the real estate industry, reports Fast Company.
It’s easy to track prices of some things: Drive down any major street and you’ll only have to pass a few gas stations to know roughly how much gasoline costs in your area.
Read more...Collecting Data And Retaining Privacy
Google has a new set of tools that can collect some big data that collect data using differential privacy, reports CNet.
Data about human beings can tell you countless helpful things. How crowded is a hospital waiting room on a typical Saturday? What's the traffic like for your morning commute? But collecting all this data comes with the risk of exposing private information about individuals.
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