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Lessons from numbers guru Nate Silver about working with big data

2013-09-12 14:05:03| InfoWorld: Top News

There's a big misconception about big data, renowned statistician and blogger Nate Silver says. It's not enough to just have access to massive amounts of data: You need to know how to use it and what to do with it.It may seem obvious, but it's a problem many organizations struggle with, Silver said during an interview with Silicon Angle's "The Cube" after his keynote speech at data management company Tableau's user conference.

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50 Years After Its Discovery, Acid Rain Has Lessons for Climate Change

2013-09-11 17:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Atlantic: In the 1980s, the dying red spruce trees of New England--many of them taller than eight-story buildings and more than three centuries old--furnished frightening proof of the power of acid rain. The trees were seen as a canary in the coal mine, and it was easy to imagine the ensuing consequences for the forest at large. "Half the red spruce... are dead," Dudley Clendinen wrote for The New York Times from New Hampshire in 1983. "Some of the balsam fir are beginning to look sick. Sugar maples have...

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Finland seeks lessons after Fukushima on nuclear complacency culture

2013-09-06 09:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Finland is pushing to ensure that complacency does not threaten its nuclear safety record as it builds new reactors despite the Fukushima disaster, which has made some other European states think twice about atomic energy. The head of Finland's nuclear safety body, Petteri Tiippana, said cultural as well as technical lessons had to be learnt from the crisis in Japan, the worst in a quarter of a century. "It was said in a report in Japan that the underlying causes of the accident had to do with...

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Lessons A Ranch Kid Learns From His Dog, Horse & Cows

2013-09-05 21:00:00| Beef

That combination of a dog, a horse, cows and a ranch have taught many ranch kids most of the good lessons they will learn about life. My View From The Country read more

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