"strataconf" entries
The truth about data: Once it’s out there, it’s hard to control
Jeff Jonas on data ownership, security concerns, and privacy trade offs.
In a recent interview, Jeff Jonas, IBM distinguished engineer and chief scientist at IBM Entity Analytics, discussed the willingness of consumers to give away their data and the issues around data replication.
The truth about data: Once it's out there, it's hard to control
Jeff Jonas on data ownership, security concerns, and privacy trade offs.
In a recent interview, Jeff Jonas, IBM distinguished engineer and chief scientist at IBM Entity Analytics, discussed the willingness of consumers to give away their data and the issues around data replication.
Before you interrogate data, you must tame it
Simon Rogers on how The Guardian addressed unstructured WikiLeaks cables.
The Guardian's Simon Rogers talks about how his team of journalists extracted details, meaning and stories from an unstructured mass of WikiLeaks cables.
Data is a currency
The trade in data is only in its infancy
If I talk about data marketplaces, you probably think of large resellers like Bloomberg or Thomson Reuters. Or startups like InfoChimps. What you probably don't think of is that you yourself trade in data.
Big Data: An opportunity in search of a metaphor
Big data as a discipline or a conference topic is still in its formative years.
Big data is a massive opportunity, but the language used to describe it ("goldrush," "data deluge," "firehose," etc.) reveals we're still searching for its identity.
Will data be too cheap to meter?
Data acquisition for a site like CrunchBase may not carry the costs some assume.
The data acquisition process should be increasingly automatic, and so increasingly cheap. I'm hoping for a world where information producers are paid for extracting value from that data.
A new challenge looks for a smarter algorithm to improve healthcare
The Heritage Healthcare Prize puts up $3 million dollars for a predictive algorithm to identify at-risk patients.
The Heritage Health Prize will ask the world's scientists to submit an algorithm that will help identify patients at risk of hospitalization before they need to go to the emergency room.
ePayments Week: How big a bite will Apple take?
Is iTunes PayPal on steroids? Also, walled gardens clamp down, and data geeks discuss privacy
In the latest ePayments Week: With contactless payments coming to an iPhone near you, analysts wonder whether Apple will share its 160 million iTunes customers.
Will data warehousing survive the advent of big data?
Analysis: How big data and traditional data warehousing can coexist.
Data warehousing — and information management as a whole — must evolve in a radically new direction if we are to manage big data properly and solve the key issue of finding implicit meaning in data.
The "dying craft" of data on discs
Urban Mapping's Ian White on the shift toward data as a service.
Urban Mapping CEO Ian White discusses the changing way that data is being sold, and the move to providing data as a service.