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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 am a big fan of House MD–a great homage to Sherlock Holmes. Last week’s episode featured (as it often does) a rather cantankerous patient who becomes frustrated when House’s team fails to properly diagnose his ailment. After about the second or third failed treatment, the patient attempted to crowdsource his diagnosis. The patient posted [...]
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Thaler and Sunstein’s Nudge blog points to an interesting project, sponsored by Volkswagen, called The Fun Theory. The idea beyond The Fun Theory is that beneficial behaviors (such as recycling and exercise) can be encouraged simply by making those behaviors, well, more fun. The video below is one example where the goal was to encourage [...]
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Jason Spector recently touched on an issue that is beginning to have an impact on the crowdsourcing industry, but could easily apply to other B2B services: Insourcing by clients. As the tools of crowdsourcing have become easy to deploy and the practice’s efficacy proven, companies now have an incentive to (possibly) bring the practice in-house. [...]
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The crowdsourcing resources page has been updated with a few new blogs and miscellaneous items. Crowdsourcing Resources (updated 9.7.2009)
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Substantive blogging will be brisk this week until I finish drafting an article I am working on and get it off to my co-author. The danger of tiny samples: “The failure to understand that events occur randomly is a failure to understand causality”. Couldn’t have said it better myself. IBM’s Predictive Ideas Market: IBM is [...]
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As I have become more interested in the topic of crowdsourcing (in all its permutations) I’ve collected various resources from the web, including books, websites, articles, etc. For those that are interested I am posting that list here. I am also creating a free-standing page where I will add to this list as I [...]
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Dan Drezner links to a recent article by Philip Tetlock on the difficult business of political forecasting. His evaluation of this troubled pastime is accomplished through the review of three recent books that all claim to provide a better way to see the future of politics. His own research (Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is [...]
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The collaborative project Citizen Sky is calling on amateur astronomers to help solve the long running of the star epsilon Auriage, a star that seemingly dims its light ever 27 years. Scientists have some theories as to why this happens, but no confirmation as of yet (via Wired): “The star is too bright to be [...]
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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
