“Is a social network without integrated analytics like a vehicle without a safety belt?”
Social media hit a low with the Boston Marathon witchhunt, says blogger Eric Schartzman. Analytics, he argues, needs to be embedded in big data.
Via briansolis.com |Without Analytics,Big Data is Just Noise
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How The Internet Of Things Will Revolutionize Search – ReadWrite
As mobile devices dictate the terms of search and how results are being conveyed to end users, there’s another phenomenon that will greatly influence the future of search - very soon, we’re going to be swimming in more data than we will know what to do with.
The rise of the Internet of Things means billions of physical objects will soon generate massive amounts of data 24 hours a day. Not only will this make traditional search methods nearly impossible to use, it will also create an environment where instead of looking for things in the world, those things will be seeking us out to give us all sorts of information that will help us fix, use or buy them.
Patent No. 8229853. 2012.
Real-time fraud prevention.
This patented system stops fraudulent credit and debit card purchases before they happen. The locations of the purchases must match what you have indicated in your travel itineraries, and if they don’t, the system will recognize that something’s up and stop the transaction before you fund someone’s extravagant designer-handbag shopping spree.
Facial Recognition Tech Could Help Identify the FBI Identity Suspects | MIT Technology Review
The FBI could use software to help identify suspects, and more advanced techniques are around the corner.
The FBI appealed to the public Thursday for help identifying two men shown in pixilated photos and video footage who are suspected of involvement in Monday’s bomb attacks in Boston.
Experts say the FBI may be able to use other images from the scene—together with facial recognition software—to search through identity databases. The approach is likely to become more common in the future as new technology makes using facial recognition on surveillance and bystander imagery more reliable.
Deploying facial recognition software in the Boston investigation isn’t straightforward because the images available are very different from the evenly lit, frontal, passport-style photos stored in law enforcement databases. Such mug shots can be matched with about 99 percent accuracy, says Anil Jain, a professor at Michigan State expert who works on facial recognition, a figure that falls to about 50 percent for images of good quality but with added complications such as a person wearing a hat or glasses.
How mobile has changed daily news consumption and why you need to understand it
We all know smartphones and tablets have revolutionised how consumers access media content. But away from the big picture there are essential details to consider, such as when consumers access your content.
The Financial Times is just one business investing a great deal of resources in analysing digital usage patterns. The graph below shows subscriber access during the day - the blue section shows desktop and laptop access and the orange section shows mobile devices.
Full Story: MediaBriefingDaily
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Smarter Insights - Bobby Jones improves his golf swing with data (by IBM)
Bobby Jones saw the value in analyzing the mechanics of his swing.
See how taking an innovative approach can lead to success on the course and in business.
IBM Mobile Business: More Than Devices, It’s The Data Between Them (by IBM)
Mobile business is more than devices, it’s what you can do with the data in between them. The mobile world is open for business. Learn more at http://ibm.co/108GIrR
Highlights from the IBM Study, Analytics: The Real World Use of Big Data (by ibmbusinessanalytics)
Mike Schroeck, Partner and VP with IBM Global Business Services, shares takeaways from the 2012 IBM study, “Analytics: The real-world use of big data.” This study, from the IBM Institute for Business Value, and in partnership with the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, explores how organizations are leveraging big data to create competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Download the study: www.ibm.com/2012bigdatastudy
MRI Technology Detects Diseases In Seconds Rather Than Hours - PSFK
A typical MRI body scan is a difficult process which involves lying motionless in a tight space often for hours at a time. Imagine if that time could be shortened not only to minutes, but mere seconds. On your next visit to the doctors office, complex scanning procedures could be accomplished quickly and painlessly.
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland say that after a decade of work they’ve developed a new MRI (magnetic resonance imagining) technique that can scan for those diseases very quickly. In just 12 seconds, for instance, it may be possible to differentiate white from gray matter in cerebrospinal fluid in the brain; in a matter of minutes, a full-body scan would provide far more data, making diagnostics considerably easier and less expensive than today’s scans.
Using Big Data Analytics to Save Lives
Eoin Lane, IBM Smarter Water Architect
By Eoin Lane
People often say that water is the new oil, but really, it’s not. Oil is a fossil fuel that takes millions of years and a lot of pressure to create. When we burn oil – for example, by driving our cars – it is gone forever (or at least for a few more millions of years before it can be created again!).
Water, on the other hand, cannot be created or destroyed (this is not strictly true, but bear with me). The same amount of water is around today that was around when the Earth was formed. The truth is there is a lot of water on Earth – just not a lot of drinking water. Here are some facts about just how little drinkable water is available:
* 97.5 percent of all water on Earth is salt water, leaving only 2.5 percent as fresh water
* Of that fresh water, nearly 70 percent is locked in ice
* Most of the rest of that freshwater is in aquifers which we are draining much more quickly than the natural recharge rate
* Two-thirds of our freshwater is used to grow food
* With 83 million more people on Earth each year, water demand will keep going up unless we change how we use it.[1]
Margaret Catley-Carlson of the Global Water Partnership has said, ”We cannot create water, but we can manage it better, much better.” [2] Take, for example, the longest water tunnel supplying NYC: it is 85 miles long, and it leaks 35 million gallons of water every day. We need to become much smarter about how we manage this precious resource and about how we collect, analyze and use water data.
There are three ways we can become smarter about water management: Instrumentation, Big Data analytics, and cooperation
Announcing the IBM Customer Experience Lab
Yesterday IBM announced the creation of the IBM Customer Experience Lab, an exclusive Research and GBS capability aimed at the front-office agenda of clients in the world of Big Data. One hundred Research scientists worldwide will work with thousands of GBS business consultants to address the emerging C-Suite Front Office Digitization priorities.
In her remarks at IBM’s annual briefing for financial analysts, Ginni called the front-office transformation of functions like sales, marketing and customer service the most significant wave of business change since the advent of ERP in the 1990s. To lead in this opportunity, we are scaling access to the highest levels of expertise for CEOs, CMOs, CxOs, public officials, and other global business leaders who recognize the urgency to create new models of engagement and move at the speed of individual attitudes and preferences.
Banorte-lxe, one of the leading banks in Latin America, and Nationwide, the world’s largest building society, are among clients already engaged with the Research and consulting experts of the new lab. During its start-up phase, the Lab will focus on six priority industries — Banking, Insurance, Retail, Consumer Products, Telco and Energy & Utilities — and we are going to select and manage the engagements coming into the Lab through GBS Global Industry Leaders and partners.
The Lab will be co-led by Sarah Diamond, general manager, Global Consulting Services, and Mahmoud Naghshineh, vice president, Services Research, with support across all 12 of IBM’s Research labs globally and a team of innovation leaders selected from the GBS Centers of Competence. Jade Nguyen Strattner has been named director of the CXLab, with overall responsibility for its day-to-day operations and the ongoing integration of Research and GBS capabilities.
IBM Research: IBM Customer Experience Lab
To help its clients successfully navigate these changes, IBM has established the IBM Customer Experience Lab to invent new ways for them to provide best-in-class customer experiences across their many channels. Located at the T.J. Watson Research Center, with additional virtual collaborators around the world, the IBM Customer Experience Lab is a partnership between IBM Research and IBM Global Business Services. A dedicated team of researchers and consultants will work with clients on customer insights, customer engagement, and employee engagement through the use of mobile, social, cloud and analytics technologies.
Miami-Dade Police Department is Using statistical analysis to find similarities in crime patterns.These patterns help the department break cold cases.
RobotCar is working with Nissan to find a way to make the Leaf EV drive itself for way less money than what Google pumps into its self-driving cars. How does it work?
