In the battle against Ebola, mobile phones could be invaluable—not just in themselves, but also because of the data they generate. CDRs can tell epidemiologists where people have been, when—and perhaps also where they are headed, based on their past movements. Analysing the records has proved helpful in tracking the spread of diseases on previous occasions. Continue reading Ebola and Big Data
Watson APIs are now available for public use, albeit only through IBM’sBluemix cloud services platform. IBM’s Watson Developer Cloud now offers eight services for building what IBM describes as cognitive apps, with more services promised later on. The eight services currently available include: Language Identification, which can determine what language a given text is written in (from a predetermined set … Continue reading APIs for Watson are Available through IBM’s Bluemix Cloud Service
These are the top ten most-funded startups in the big data space: Cloudera $1,040 million Hadoop-based software, services and training Palantir 950 Analytics applications Domo 250 Business intelligence SaaS platform Hortonworks 248 Hadoop-based … Continue reading Top Ten Most Funded Big Data Startups October 2014
In January 2012, AIG launched the “Science Team.” By early 2014, 130 people from diverse scientific and managerial backgrounds were devoting themselves to realizing the team’s mission: To be a catalyst for evidence-based decision making across AIG. The article gives a good summary of key factors in the success of the Science Team’s efforts to date. Continue reading How AIG Moved Toward Evidence-Based Decision Making
To sort out the exponential advance of deep-learning algorithms and what it means for managerial science, McKinsey’s Rik Kirkland conducted a series of interviews in January at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos. Among those interviewed were two leading business academics—Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, coauthors of The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence in Managerial Science
