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Watson from IBM: Why semantic text tech helps analytics
IBM Watson: dramatic potential or nothing new? There is a new type of software technology from IBM and others that has the potential to dramatically change how we work. In particular, certain types of workplace drudgery may be eliminated. The key is intelligent processing of unstructured text. You might remember IBM’s Watson technology from a few year’s back. It’s a natural language Q&A system named after IBM’s founder (pictured). (We’re guessing it’s also an allusion to the Sherlock Holmes character.) As a publicity stunt, IBM had Watson beat the reigning Jeopardy! champion. At least based on the material on IBM’s website it still isn’t too clearly technically what IBM is. There are other impressive systems for searching and processing unstructured text and answering human-language questions. (We’ll talk about them in a bit.) Aside from some glossy marketing materials, IBM seems coy about why Watson is better or cheaper than the competition.… Read the restMH370 Hunt: IoT Sharks with Laser Beams?
MH370 and Crowdsourced Sharks with Laser Beams? The disappearance of MH Flight 370 has revealed a major gap in the Internet of Things: most of the world is water and lacks decent broadband coverage due to the ocean’s relative inability to transmit radio waves. Austin Powers fans will recall Dr. Evil’s obsession for “Sharks with Laser Beams” and we’ll see what MH370 has to do with them in a bit. Crowdsourcing rapid technological innovation in emergencies During the hunt for the plane, innovative technological solutions were crowdsourced that later were used in the investigation (perhaps through independent discovery by very qualified experts or perhaps as result of the crowdsourced suggestions). Proposals such as using the doppler shift to fine-tune the Inmarsat data, combine Inmarsat data with radar data, and use military antisubmarine sonar buoys were all proposed in online forums, days or even weeks before they were official announced by investigators as novel techniques used in the investigation.… Read the restSocial 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 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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