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Big data for development: Facts and figures
2014-04-15 11:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: In just a few years big data have affected industries and activities from marketing and advertising to intelligence gathering and law enforcement, stirring much excitement and scepticism. With policymaking increasingly looking like big datas next frontier, is this phenomenon what one expert, Andreas Weigend, is calling the new oil that needs to be refined poised to be a blessing or a curse for human development and social progress? [1,2] Optimists are calling it a revolution that will...
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Dont lose sight of the people behind big data
2014-04-15 11:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: In the wrong hands, large datasets can do more harm than good, says Sanjana Hattotuwa. Accountability is crucial. The policeman who came to see me was affable and just following instructions. It was 2009, near the end of Sri Lanka's brutal 27-year-old civil war, though nobody knew at the time. He asked me to enter my personal details on a website called citizens.lk, set up by the all-powerful Ministry of Defence (MoD). I asked him politely what law required me to enter my data into the system....
Big data: An opportunity to boost analytical capacities
2014-04-15 11:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: n recent years there has been much discussion and even hype about big data. Much of this centres on big datas potential to cure many of the ills of official statistical production, such as how quickly National Statistics Offices (NSOs) can respond to a new policy request, high costs, poor timeliness, burden on respondents and even inaccuracies. But while many see big data as competing with official statistics, we argue that big data is part of greater statistics. [1] Both are needed the key...
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Big data for development: Key resources
2014-04-15 11:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: An early mention of the upcoming "Industrial Revolution of data' can be found in a blog by Joe Hellerstein, a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. It was published in November 2008, a few months after Wired had claimed that 'data deluge' would signify "the end of theory' and make the 'scientific method' obsolete as numbers would speak for themselves. Then, in 2009, a group of leading computer and social scientists published a commentary in Science describing a new academic...
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ATA Endorses Vigillo's Athena Big Data Business Intelligence Platform
2014-04-14 17:46:34| Trucking - Topix.net
"ATA has had a long and fruitful relationship with Vigillo, including its CSA Scorecard in our Featured Product program," said ATA President and CEO , "and as data and analytics become more and more critical to our industry, it is important that fleets be able to track and manage information critical to their businesses.
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