Big Data Meets Fine Art
Big Data Meets Fine Art by Thanigai Vellore, Enterprise Architect, Art.com “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together” – This famous quote by Vincent Van Gogh reflects what’s happening at art.com,...
Category: Expert Articles
Big Data and Large Numbers of People: the Need for Group Privacy
Big Data and Large Numbers of People: the Need for Group Privacy by Prof. Luciano Floridi, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 1 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS, United Kingdom; luciano.floridi@oii.ox.ac.uk One of the...
Data Security Isn’t Just IT’s Responsibility
Data Security Isn’t Just IT’s Responsibility By Tamara Dull, Director of Emerging Technologies ▪ SAS Best Practices What does the IRS, Home Depot, Sony, Anthem, and Uber have in common? These organizations, among countless others,...
China released its first industry-standard big data benchmark suite
China released its first industry-standard big data benchmark suite By Jianfeng Zhan,Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Recently,...
Data Science for the Social sector
Data Science for the Social sector. By Brian Dalessandro, DataKind Data Ambassador and Jake Porway, DataKind Founder and Executive Director . At DataKind, we see countless opportunities for data science to make a huge difference...
Monetizing Big Data
Monetizing Big Data. By Patrick Schwerdtfeger. The key to monetizing ‘Big Data’ is in its predictive capacity. If you can predict an outcome before it takes place, there’s value in that. In what circumstances...
Predictive Analytics – A Case For Private Equity?
Predictive Analytics – A Case For Private Equity? By Lutz Finger, LinkedIn To build a data product you need to have the right data. This sounds simple, but it is often forgotten by entrepreneurs...
Rethinking Contemporary Operations Teams
Rethinking Contemporary Operations Teams By Stephen Dillon |Schneider Electric| Global Solutions| Engineering Fellow| Data Architect If, like most people, you are very interested in the end game Big Data and Analytics promises then you...
Ethical Perspectives on Personal Data and Automated Decision Making
Ethical Perspectives on Personal Data and Automated Decision Making (Presentation) by Dr Steven Finlay . My name is Steven Finlay. I’m head of Analytics at a company called HML. You have probably never heard of...
Ethical Risk Assessment of Automated Decision Making Systems
Ethical Risk Assessment of Automated Decision Making Systems By Steven Finlay, Head of Analytics at HML. In my previous article (https://www.odbms.org/2015/02/importance-ethics-data-science/) I discussed the need to consider ethical as well as legal issues when designing automated...