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by Angela Guess Adam Frank of NPR recently reported, “Sometimes the most powerful and transformative technologies emerge by accident, an unintended consequence of other developments. When this happens, the scope and power of the new technology can’t be fully appreciated until after we have embedded it in our culture. Big Data is all that and...
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by Angela Guess Wyatt Kash of Information Week reports, “The CIOs of federal agencies are assessing the full scope of a White House executive order, introduced May 9, that requires agencies to make government data available in open, machine-readable formats. One likely outcome is that federal IT teams will have to give data sets...
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by Angela Guess Prachi Patel of IEEE Spectrum reports, “Farmers today produce three times as much food as they did 50 years ago using just 12 percent more land, thanks to new technologies and better farming practices. But the global playing field isn’t level. In Africa, farmers produce a fraction of what they could,...
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by Angela Guess Mare Lucas of Wired recently wrote, “Close behind ‘Big Data’ as one of the most utilized enterprise technology terms today is ‘Data Scientist.’ Many postulate that the explosion in Big Data will usher in an insatiable demand for data scientists able to slice and dice data to guide more informed decision...
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by Angela Guess Katharine Gammon of EarthZine reports, “An avalanche of big data has descended on the field of Earth sciences, and researchers are increasingly turning to novel ways of integrating, assimilating and interpreting those data to better understand the field. EarthCube — described as a cyber-infrastructure for the next generation of geoscience — is...
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by Angela Guess Alexander Howard has written an article for Slate.com regarding Big Data, open data, and the “data economy.” He writes, “We’re living in the exabyte age, where the actions of billions of humans using the Web and their mobile devices are creating massive amounts of big data to collect, store, analyze, and put to...
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by Angela Guess Nathan Eddy of eWeek reports, “A Gartner report suggests open data can be more valuable to businesses than collecting big data.” He explains, “Businesses of all sizes continue to struggle to find a solution for dealing with the growing volume of information flowing into their databases—a mountain of files and figures...
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by Angela Guess Kathleen Hall of Computer Weekly reports, “The government recently published its white paper on open data, with the newly-created Open Data User Group having met to discuss the next phase. But despite these moves, campaigners are worried that plans to create a £16bn stimulus to the economy through open data are being...
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by Angela Guess The Open Knowledge Foundation has launched a new School of Data, Laura Newman reports. She writes, “The School of Data is led by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) and Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU). The School will provide online training for data ‘wrangling’ skills – the ability to find, retrieve, clean, manipulate, analyze, and represent...
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by Angela Guess Quentin Hardy of the New York Times reports, “Harvard is making public the information on more than 12 million books, videos, audio recordings, images, manuscripts, maps, and more things inside its 73 libraries. Harvard can’t put the actual content of much of this material online, owing to intellectual property laws, but...
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