"Everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation. Between us and everybody else on this planet." Have you heard about this quote before? This isn't hot news as it is an old quote going back to 1929. However, Facebook released a new data science research study this week that shows that we are only separated by 3.57 degrees! In the data … [Read more...] about Big Data: By How Many People Are We Separated On This Planet?
The Control of Personal Data by Large Powerful Corporations
Nicholas Carr, Pulitzer Prize Finalist for his book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, discusses the dangers that occur when large companies such as Twitter, Facebook and Google own the majority of personal data. … [Read more...] about The Control of Personal Data by Large Powerful Corporations
The Advantages of Big Social Data For Your Organisation
At the moment there are more than 1 billion Facebook users, of which around 850 million are active on a monthly basis. There are more than 100 billion connections and each day gives us 2.7 billion new likes. Twitter has 500 million users and 180 million tweets are sent every day. Approximately 100 million Twitter users are active on a monthly basis. Linkedin has 200 million … [Read more...] about The Advantages of Big Social Data For Your Organisation
