The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
ODNI DESCRIBES EMERGING TOOLS FOR DATA FUSION, ANALYSIS Several intelligence community initiatives to develop improved tools for data search, analysis and fusion were described in the latest report to Congress (pdf) from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on data mining. A new program called DataSphere is intended “to aid in the discovery …
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Big Data and Smart Software: A Volatile Mixture? For several years big data and artificial intelligence have been running on parallel tracks. Once in a while they cross over, but mostly they kept independent of one another. But that is poised to change, as we saw from a recent press release from Lucidworks, “Lucidworks Launches …
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The deception that lurks in our data-driven world Add it all up, and you have a significant problem in the way our society produces knowledge. . . . . . . The hidden underpinnings of the world were revealed only when they were gone. . . . . . . We’ve deceived ourselves into thinking …
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SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/EIN-UN-SDG Beyond Data Monitoring – Achieving the Sustainability Development Goals Through Intelligence (Decision-Support) Integrating Holistic Analytics, True Cost Economics, and Open Source Everything BACKGROUND RESEARCH PAPER Submitted to the High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda DOC (23 Pages): Beyond Data Monitoring 3.4 See Also: 2014 Robert Steele Applied Collective Intelligence 2014 …
Integrating Geo-Data with Social Media Improves Situational Awareness During Disasters A new data-driven study on the flooding of River Elbe in 2013 (one of the most severe floods ever recorded in Germany) shows that geo-data can enhance the process of extracting relevant information from social media during disasters. The authors use “specific geographical features like hydrological data and …
Big Data Should Mean Big Quality Posted: 28 Aug 2014 03:28 AM PDT Why does logic seem to fail in the face of fancy jargon? DataFusion’s Blog posted on the jargon fallacy in the post, “It All Begins With Data Quality.” The post explains how with new terms like big data, real-time analytics, and self-service …
Brett Goldstein and Lauren Dyson (editors) 4.0 out of 5 stars Superb on Open Data, Missing Important Context And Index, July 6, 2014 This is a superb collection of individual very short contributions. Absolutely worth reading and strongly recommended for purchase and sharing. Some take-aways:
