Posts Tagged ‘mining’

Facebook ‘Likes’ reveal more about you than you think | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

Sunday, March 17th, 2013

http://www.freep.com/usatoday/article/1975777

Twitter users forming tribes with own language, tweet analysis shows

Sunday, March 17th, 2013

http://m.guardiannews.com/news/datablog/2013/mar/15/twitter-users-tribes-language-analysis-tweets

Facebook ‘likes’ can predict gender, ethnicity etc….

Sunday, March 17th, 2013

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/03/06/1218772110.abstract Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior

Michal Kosinskia
David Stillwella, and
Thore Graepelb

IBM CEO Rometty Says Big Data Is the Next Great Natural Resource – The Daily Beast

Saturday, March 9th, 2013

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/08/ibm-ceo-rometty-says-big-data-is-the-next-great-natural-resource.html

Big Data excerpt: How Mike Flowers revolutionized New York’s building inspections. – Slate Magazine

Thursday, March 7th, 2013

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/03/big_data_excerpt_how_mike_flowers_revolutionized_new_york_s_building_inspections.single.html

Influential Few Predict Behavior of the Many: Scientific American

Thursday, February 28th, 2013

QT:” looked at the entire human metabolic network and found that concentrations of about 10 percent of the body’s 2,763 metabolites could be used to determine the levels of all the rest.”

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=influential-few-predict-behavior

The Fallacy of the Data Scientist Shortage | Competing on Decisions

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

Puncturing the hype around data science

http://hiredbrains.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/the-fallacy-of-the-data-scientist-shortage/

The Fallacy of the Data Scientist Shortage | Competing on Decisions

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

http://hiredbrains.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/the-fallacy-of-the-data-scientist-shortage/

Influential Few Predict Behavior of the Many: Scientific American

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=influential-few-predict-behavior

The Philosophy of Data – NYTimes.com

Monday, February 18th, 2013

Nice to see such a technical subject featured in an oped
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/opinion/brooks-the-philosophy-of-data.html?hp