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I came across this Chris Anderson piece from a 2008 issue of Wired via Ana Andjelic. Anderson argues that in the era of Big Data we no longer need to rely on theory and the scientific method to achieve advances in knowledge: Google’s founding philosophy is that we don’t know why this page is better [...]
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In the latest issue of WIRED, Clive Thompson pens a great piece which echoes a sentiment I’ve touched on before: in a data-driven world it is critical that all citizens have at least a basic literacy in statistics. Now and in the future, we will have unprecedented access to voluminous amounts of data. The analysis of this [...]
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I’ve written before about how IBM dove headfirst into the world of Big Data. They’ve made a big bet on the revolutionary possibilities available to business, governments, and individuals given the revolution in data capture and analytics we are entering. At this point you’ve all seen this point made in various ways through IBM’s Smarter Planet [...]
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Music to analytically-driven ears: [...] IBM is unveiling a new internal analytics product that the company is touting as the “largest private cloud computing environment for business analytics in the world,” which launches internally with more than a petabyte of information. Along with this internal product, IBM will launch a companion product for clients to [...]
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So says Professor Jimmy Lin at the University of Maryland in a recent NYT Technology article about the shortfall in “Big Data-competent” university students. The article points out that the kind of data we are now dealing with (which will only continue to increase exponentially) requires a different perspective and experience than most currently have. [...]
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I’ve run across quite a few stories lately discussing the 1) the revolution in data production we are living through and 2) the challenges we face in being able to sift through and view that data in a meaningful way through the web. The first comes from GigaOM, where Jennifer Martinez looks at the emerging [...]
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Last week I wrote about the increasing demand for analytically-skilled, sophisticated statisticians by all sorts of companies looking to take advantage of our increasingly data-driven world. This past Wednesday, the New York Times published another piece yet again highlighting this trend: As suggested by Daniel Pink’s assertions on the rise of a right-brained working elite, [...]
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Fiction
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Non-fiction
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value
The Numbers Game
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
The Rational Optimist
The Quiet American
How Doctors Think
The Wisdom of Whores
Switch
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
