Category Archives: Big Data

When You See Something, Do Something

Posted on January 29, 2022 by ebighe

Photo by Olya Kobruseva from Pexels As explained by Issie Lapowsky in They left Facebook’s integrity team.  Now they want the world to know how it works.  Protocol (October 2021), Jeff Allen a data scientist and former member of the now famous Facebook … Continue reading →

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Samsung Phone Home

Posted on April 8, 2019 by ray8t

If you have frequented Twitter the last couple of days, you may have noticed the big sponsored #SamsungGalaxyS10 as the top trending topic. Recently, the highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S10 phone was released. Similar to the model made popular by … Continue reading →

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The Other Side of the Court

Posted on March 11, 2019 by ray8t

  A few blogs ago, I mentioned how the NBA had successfully integrated the social media landscape to its brand and marketing campaigns. It was refreshing to see one of the major sports leagues being able to adapt to the … Continue reading →

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Anything you post can and will be used against you in a court of law

Posted on March 12, 2018 by familydiscountauto

Most people are no more familiar with the Miranda warning than hearing it on TV. The second sentence to that warning, “Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law,” seems so 1999 though, … Continue reading →

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Artificial Intelligence descends on the 60th Grammy Awards!

Posted on January 29, 2018 by heatheremery

The 60th annual Grammy’s may not have robots strutting down the red carpet this year but instead will be hailed the first awards show to have its content generated by artificial Intelligence technology.  The IBM AI Watson platform has partnered … Continue reading →

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From Red Blood Cells to the Red Carpet – IBM’s Watson Identifies Cancer and the Best Red Carpet Looks

Posted on January 27, 2018 by michaeldubbs

  In a world of ever-advancing technology, the boundaries between business and social media are becoming increasingly blurred.  The tools that we use to connect socially with others, such as Facebook, Twitter and even texting are the same tools that … Continue reading →

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Strava is Contagious–Who Knew? Christakis Was Right About Our Social Networks and Behavior

Posted on April 25, 2017 by sydhavely

    In their groundbreaking work on the social contagion associated with health behavior derived from the Framingham Heart Study, Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler found that behaviors of a friend, a friend of a friend, and even a friend … Continue reading →

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Madam X is Now Your Car–Face and Mind-Reading Get Automotive

Posted on April 19, 2017 by sydhavely

           Matt Dunford, a designer, with the Fiat Chrysler Portal. It would make             automatic adjustment based on a driver’s preferences and even read     your mood. The Band’s former lead guitarist, … Continue reading →

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A Lifesaving IoT?

Posted on April 6, 2017 by nicolebford

Whether or not big data can be a big problem, or whether IoT bringing us back to the Garden of Eden is good or bad, a Connecticut woman is likely alive today because of the information gathered by her FitBit.  … Continue reading →

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Letting Data Speak… But Who is Listening?

Posted on February 14, 2017 by betsyfr

According to Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier, Big Data is all about “seeing and understanding the relations within and among pieces of information that until very recently, we have struggled to fully grasp.” They point to IBM’s big-data expert, Jeff … Continue reading →

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