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Ebola: Can big data or semantic text help?
“Many problems” in this case Yes it can. We’ll get to to how big data or semantic meaning can help in a moment. First a few observations. As the Prof. Redlener, the NYT’s expert on disaster preparedness put it, “There are many, many problems that have been revealed by this single case.” This is a polite way for saying what at the Dallas hospital was a major screw-up that needlessly put lives in danger and unnecessarily forced additional people into a 21-day quarantine. We can talk about using semantic text technologies to prevent these kinds of hospital errors, or big data to improve traveler screening processes. At the end of the day, however, this is a type of error that the billing department at the Dallas hospital should have been able to catch. EbolaCare(TM) insurance “Where do we send this bill?” “Hmmm, address in Liberia. Looks like he has EbolaCare(TM), the national health plan of Liberia.”… Read the restAsk Acculation: fight illegal mining with citizen science IoT crowdsourcing in Amazon rainforest?
Indiegogo campaign to stop illegal mining threatening the Amazon Rainforest We were spammed yesterday with a Twitter question from @DavidRabanus asking if we could add the ability to detect mercury vapor to our app. If so, we could submit it, as an entry in this Indiegogo contest to reduce mercury pollution from illegal gold mining in the Amazon Rainforest (activist hashtag: #ImproveArtisanalMining). (Update: David Rabanus wrote to strongly imply the tweet wasn’t spam.) We’re suckers for a good cause, however, so we’ll answer the question. The question of using Internet of Things technology to allow citizen-science, crowdsourced monitoring of pollution from activities like fracking and mining have repeatedly come up, so it’s worth a blog entry (especially after we previously suggested using fracking to prevent earthquakes.) It’s not clear whether they are looking for a technical, economic, or political solution. The project itself seems open ended — it could be a process, or it could be some sort of technology.… Read the restAsk Acculation: How do I control my indoor air quality?
Although we’ve certainly done multiple articles on this before, second reader question on “how do I control my indoor air quality” means it’s time for another blog post on air quality technology. I live in San Fransisco where the air is not particularly good. How do I protect my newborn baby? I’m worried both about dust from cars and blowing over from China as well as chemical emissions from our new rugs and paint. Another reader: I’ve come down with allergies. Taking control of my indoor air quality now sounds very appealing. Automobile exhaust probably responsible for some “allergies” Kudos to you for trying to take control. Funny thing about allergies: we’re getting anecdotal evidence from family and friends that all of this technology is somewhat new to the medical community as well (at least the concept that it so affordable anyone can just go out and buy it). We have friends and relatives that for years were diagnosed with minor “allergies” that everyone (including the doctors) assumed were minor pollen allergies.… Read the restError bands, or why models will be models (of the mathematical variety)
In response to our article on the Social Progress Index (SPI) and prediction markets, the Social Progress Index folks asked why we didn’t just stop at optimizing the SPI. Two reasons, we said: (1) There’s an unfortunate tendency of people to believe (math) models are reality. They’re just models with error bands. (2) There’s going to be politically-motivated suspicion of any model (as well as political-motivated attempts to manipulate models and their interpretation). [For our readers coming over from our fashion design section, or our earlier article on virtual reality fashion models and modeling, we are talking about mathematical models here.] So how do models go bad? Let’s use the Social Progress Index as an example. We talked elsewhere about the tension between things like freedom of press and national security in a model like this. (In general, such tension will exist in an useful economic or financial model. If the tension did not exist, there would be nothing interesting to optimize, and so need for such a model in the first place.)… Read the restRecent Posts
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