Big Data

No doubt about it, Netflix and chilling is the best way to spend your long weekend, but if you're not into that, we're here to offer an alternative: learning new things! Hey, it's not as boring as it sounds. You can take this extended break to refill your me…

Raj Chettys plan to change how Harvard teaches economics - VoxRaj Chetty, a prominent faculty member whom Harvard recently poached back from Stanford, this spring unveiled Economics 1152: Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems. Taught with the h…

Seattle has long been known for inciting the countrys coffee culture, but now that were all sufficiently caffeinated, these days its the technology scene thats causing a buzz. Situated well north of the traditional tech enclave known as Silicon Valley, Seattl…

Cities are growing at alarming speeds as they become highly populated and more urbanized. Citizens are living in closed environments, and climate issues are providing ever more threats to citizens. Busy roads, traffic, and public services are all issues that …

According to Dr. Roselyn K. Akombe, Chief of Policy Planning and Guidance at the United Nations and ex-commissioner of Kenyas Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), the countrys government is going to sell all the citizen data collected throu…

Si bien Lionel Messi es un jugador difícilmente irrepetible por su incomparable habilidad en el terreno de juego, desde un punto de vista estadístico, hay un jugador que se le acerca en cuanto a rendimiento. La empresa Driblab ha elaborado un estudio Big Data…

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin If you think "data" is what you do with your girlfriend you are probably on the wrong tariff.   Getty Vodafone has a promotion on at the moment offering a 60 Gb data…

A big thank you to Parsons at Open Campus for sponsoring my blog and RSS Feed this week. Take a design-oriented approach to data in an online certificate program in Infographics and Data Visualization, offered through Parsons at Open Campus. In this series o…

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin In 2019, employees are the most likely to recommend Arcadia Data, FiveTran, InfluxData, Dataiku, Confluent, Redis Labs, StreamSets, Looker, Periscope Data, ThoughtSpot, Alation, Dremio, H2O.ai and SAP to…

Taking logs of computer activity, or even screenshots, and running them through big data analytics programs allows these firms to create detailed reports for executives about productivity, they claim. How employers use the data, they add, is up to them. Acco…