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Social Progress Index and Big Data Analytics: government by computer?
Data driven governance via metrics like the Social Progress Index? In his recent op-ed, NYT managing director and Pulitzer Prize-winner Nicholas Kristof essentially argues that a metric such as the Social Progress Index rather than GDP should be used to guide US public policy. The Harvard economist that created the Social Progress Index (whom Kristof feels the need to immediately point out is a Republican) says he became increasingly aware social factors (which we should call social investments) support a country’s long-term economic prospects. We couldn’t quite resist the big analytics aspects of all this. Analytics ultimately will produce metrics that are better than short-term GDP, together with models that can optimize public policy. Policy wonks have doing this on a small scale for years, but new technologies, related new insights from industrial applications, and perhaps the related development of better metrics make this possible on a larger scale than previously thought.… Read the restCrowdsourced seismic sensors might save your life someday.
Crowdsourced Seismic Sensors? A frequent topic on this blog is the use of Arudino and crowdsourced technologies to address air quality issues. Can similar technologies be used adopted from air quality technologies to improve seismic predictions? It turns out the answer is yes. Unless you’ve been living under a large rock these last few days, you’ve probably heard that Los Angeles was struck in the last two weeks by what the USGS describes as a “moderate” 5.1 earthquake with “light” fore and aftershocks of around 4.5. (The Saint Patrick’s Day foreshock trembler prompted our earlier article on robot-written newspaper articles , music, and movies.) During that same period, there were similar or slightly quakes in Chile, Alaska, Greece, and Japan. And let’s not forget the 5.7 quake that struck DC back in 2011 to much mirth on Facebook. There was a significant difference between these quakes and the ones in Los Angeles: (1) they didn’t occur underneath a megapolis of some 13+ million people, and (2) they didn’t occur under one of the world’s major media capitals, where celebrities and publicists are conditioned, like Pavlov’s dog, to associate earthquakes with the salivating opportunity to tweet against a trending hashtag, emergency smartphone power at the ready, and (3) they didn’t have 100 aftershocks within a 24 hour period.… Read the restBig Data Analytics: Articles, Movies, Songs Robo-written by Computer?
First in a series of articles on big data analytics This is the first in a series of planned blog articles on applications of big data analytics. We are Internet of Things analytics company, focusing initially on indoor air quality analytics with our AQcalc app. Home environment and health/fitness applications are the first killer applications for the Internet of Things. This is driven by the dramatic price drop in technology that permits everyday appliances, devices, sensors — even traditionally ‘dumb’ and static objects like washing machines, windows, kitchen cupboards, and refrigerator shelves — to be connected to the Internet (see our Cisco CES talk article). Consumers are seeing the first killer applications for these devices in the form of fitness trackers. (The much rumored Apple iWatch may well turn out to be a cross between an iPhone and something like a FitBit or a Misfit Shine.) You have Internet-connected devices such as the Nest learning thermostat or their smoke alarm.… Read the restRecent Posts
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