The UK’s data watchdog, the Information Commission’s Office (ICO), has still not obtained a warrant to enter and search the servers of the London-based political consultancy, Cambridge Analytica — the company at the center of the data misuse scandal engulfing Facebook — three days on from beginning the process. The earliest a warrant could now […]
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Save on these online courses dedicated to Hadoop, the data analyzing software that tech companies use
With the torrential downpour that is Big Data, how do businesses make sense of it all? Good question! The reason why enterprises don’t experience information overload and turn into the confused math lady meme is that they use software frameworks with…
View More Save on these online courses dedicated to Hadoop, the data analyzing software that tech companies useFacebook suspends Cambridge Analytica, the data analysis firm that worked for the Trump campaign
Facebook announced late Friday that it had suspended the account of Strategic Communication Laboratories, and its political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica — which used Facebook data to target voters for President Donald Trump’s campaign in the 2016 election.In a statement released by Paul Grewal, the company’s vice president and deputy general counsel, Facebook explained […]
View More Facebook suspends Cambridge Analytica, the data analysis firm that worked for the Trump campaignInfoSum’s first product touts decentralized big data insights
Nick Halstead’s new startup, InfoSum, is launching its first product today — moving one step closer to his founding vision of a data platform that can help businesses and organizations unlock insights from big data silos without compromising user privacy, data security or data protection law. So a pretty high bar then. If the underlying tech lives up to the promises being made for… Read More
Millions of refugees could benefit from big data — but we’re not using it
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Today, 65 million people live as refugees or are displaced within their home countries — more than at any other point since the U.N. Refugee Agency began collecting data. Many countries have opened their borders to those displaced by war and famine, but struggle to handle the large influx.
This global crisis is often misunderstood as an overwhelming challenge for which no one can offer a satisfactory solution. But there is a set of tools that would help us, as a global society, take major leaps forward in addressing this crisis. I’m talking about predictive analytics — the statistical science (some would say art) that mines current and past data to predict future outcomes. Read more…
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View More Millions of refugees could benefit from big data — but we’re not using itGoogle Flights will now predict airline delays – before the airlines do
Google is rolling out a few new features to its Google Flights search engine to help travelers tackle some of the more frustrating aspects of air travel – delays and the complexities of the cheaper, Basic Economy fares. With the regard to delays, Google Flights won’t just be pulling in information from the airlines directly, however – it will take advantage of its… Read More
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Love doesn’t make the world go ’round — data does.
In most — if not all — industries, people who have a profound understanding of big data and analytics are indispensable. Businesses generate data faster than they can make sense of it, and as a result, they’re in desperate need of teams to help them scrutinize every bit of it to uncover patterns and trends. No machine can interpret large data sets, not even Sophia the Robot. Read more…
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View More Become a data science prodigy with these online courses that are 95% offUnravel Data raises $15M Series B for its big data performance monitoring platform
Big data systems tend to be large, complex and often hard to troubleshoot. In the world of databases, web and mobile stacks, application performance management services like AppDynamics and New Relic help ops teams keep tabs on their system. In t…
View More Unravel Data raises $15M Series B for its big data performance monitoring platformClairvoyant launches Kogni to help companies track their most sensitive data
As we inch ever closer to GDPR in May, companies doing business in Europe need to start getting a grip on the sensitive private data they have. The trouble is that as companies move their data into data lakes, massive big data stores, it becomes more difficult to find data in a particular category. Clairvoyant, an Arizona company is releasing a tool called Kogni that could help.
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Study shows software used to predict repeat offenders is no better at it than untrained humans
COMPAS, a piece of software commonly used in the justice system to predict which offenders will find themselves behind bars again, is no better than soliciting random people on Mechanical Turk to determine the same thing, a new study has found. Oh, and they’re both racially biased. Read More
Hello, Watson: How AI actually learns how to think
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People understandably have a lot of questions about how exactly artificial intelligence works. How could a machine understand nuance and context like a human brain can? Is creating Artificial Intelligence (AI) that sophisticated really possible?
Your answers lie with AI systems like Watson: IBM’s boundary-pushing technology, a collaborative effort designed to amplify human intelligence. Watson is on the cutting edge of cognitive computing, which means it thinks and learns
So how, exactly, does it do that?
Understanding how we reason
Before you can teach a machine to process information like a human brain, you need to understand how a human brain thinks. People go through four steps before making a decision. They can happen almost instantly, but we do it every time. Read more…
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Collibra snags $58 M Series D led by Iconiq and Battery Ventures to simplify data governance
Collibra, a company that wants to help firms understand data governance, announced a $58 million Series D funding round today led by Iconiq Capital and Battery Ventures.
All of the investors involved in this round were coming back for another dip…