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
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Cloudant Offers a Distributed Database-as-a-Service Solution
Company Cloudant Address 129 South Street Boston, MA, 02111 USA Founders Adam Kocoloski, Michael Miller & Alan Hoffman Founded May 2008 Funding $ 16.25 million Employees 70 Website www.Cloudant.com/ Rating 8 bits  Cloudant is a data store that offers a distributed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solution to organisations that do require NoSQL databases but … [Read more...] about Cloudant Offers a Distributed Database-as-a-Service Solution
How The Education Industry Should Start Using Big Data
Richard Culatta, Director, Office of Educational Technology for the U.S. Department of Education, and Elliott Masie discuss the lack of data in the learning field and implications of big data for the Education Industry and how big data can improve the learning experience. How to personalize learning using big data while at the same time respecting ones privacy. … [Read more...] about How The Education Industry Should Start Using Big Data
Machine-Learning: Connecting Devices with Algorithms – video
Machine learning algorithms have been around for ages, but they are getting exponentially better each year. The algorithms are being used in many different devices ranging from self-driving cars to writing magazine articles. Jeremy Howard, data scientists, talks about how machine-learning competitions drive the improvement of the algorithms and he sounds a warning what could … [Read more...] about Machine-Learning: Connecting Devices with Algorithms – video
How AOL Gets Value From Big Data – Video
AOL Brand Group CEO Susan Lyne discusses the benefits that user data has on their ability to reach a very targeted audience. Currently they are working on providing personalized homepages for visitors to AOL.com based on browser history of the visitor. In addition they combine 3rd party data with their own data and especially on their marketing part of their business to provide … [Read more...] about How AOL Gets Value From Big Data – Video
