The N-gram and the Book “Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture”
Between 2007 and 2010, graduate students Erez Aiden, Jean-Baptiste Michel and Yuan Shen developed a tool for analyzing Google’s digitized…
What CEOs Need in Their BYOD Tool Chest
There’s the question that bring your own device (BYOD) is here to stay. A year ago, many were predicting widespread…
Blackboard Debuts Cloud Based Learn App
Blackboard has been a fixture in a majority of higher level institutions for a couple decades. Blackboard has now announced…
Amazon’s Data-Driven New Media Strategy: Bring Broadcast Ad Spend Online
Amazon has long been open about its efforts to displace our reliance on overpriced cable. After all, an Amazon Prime…
How Biostatistics and Spatio-Temporal Modeling Can Be Used to Protect Human Health
Smog, smoke, and dust are the natural by-products of industrialization. When visiting cities that have high levels of smoke and…
Oracle’s Ellison: “We Are Just Getting Started”
Oracle has inundated the cloud news headlines recently with their talks of matching Amazon’s pricing for cloud services. Oracle believes…
Hadoop in Advertising & Media: Is Data Analytics Making Old Media New?
Imagine the chance to truly connect with a customer. Imagine if you knew what movies and television shows they watched, and…
A Cautionary Tale: Are You Clicking Your Privacy (or the Privacy of Others) Away?
The big data privacy discussion is subtle, complex and complicated – and we each have a role to play. What’s…
Feds Open New Social Security Datacenter: Millions of Americans Gasp
OK, so the second part of the headline was conjecture, but whenever the words “Fed” and “datacenter”appear in the same…
Shadow IT: Turning Tech Rogues into Tech Champions
As we continue the conversation about BYOD and how it affects security in organizations, it’s important to define a key…