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Searchblox Announces New Visualization Method for Search Results

The brief article on Searchblox titled A Visualization Is Worth a Thousand Search Results relates the addition of visualization to the Elasticsearch-based system, Searchblox. Searchblox is an open source enterprise content search engine founded in 2003. Its customers range over 25 countries and include Harley Davidson, Capital One Investments, Kellog, and the US Department of Justice, to name just a few. The article discusses the latest advancement of visualization with a note on how to use the new plugin and how it works. The article states,

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ANSWERS 2014 Robert Steele with Pierre Cloutier on Smart Nations and the Future of Quebec

Advanced Cyber/IO, Answers, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Design, Ethics, Governance, Politics

Robert, you are the originator of the concept of a Smart Nation, with your article in 1996 published in the Government Information Quarterly, entitled “Creating a Smart Nation: Strategy, Policy, Intelligence, and Information.” Quebec is a nation, recognized by Canada, with a distinct culture, a distinct geography, and perhaps a distinct future.

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2014/12/182014/12/18

Advance Order (15 Jan 15): Digital Humanitarians: How Big Data is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response

Advanced Cyber/IO, Crowd-Sourcing, Drones & UAVs, Geospatial, Governance, Innovation, Liberation Technology, Resilience, United Nations & NGOs, Worth A Look

This book shows us once again why Patrick Meier is a thought leader in leveraging emerging technologies for social impact. His book captures the enormous possibilities and avoidable pitfalls of big data, social media and artificial intelligence in crisis contexts. Digital humanitarians can be powerful agents for social change but ground-truthing what we see and hear digitally is more important than ever.
—Aleem Walji, Chief Innovation Advisor, Leadership, Learning, and Innovation, World Bank Group

Phi Beta Iota: The book title and description from the publisher are misleading. This is not a book about Big Data. It is a book about distributed human networks using open source information technologies to achieve situational awareness with a speed and precision that the entire US secret intelligence community (which costs $100 billion a year) cannot match.

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Patrick Meier @ Phi Beta Iota

2014/12/14

Collin Body of Knowledge Methods — Reflection, Connection, Creation, Collaboration

Advanced Cyber/IO

The Collin method enables people to excellarate (capabilities and knowledge) in very short time (months). Recently we succeeded in cooperating with several universities (Delft, Utrecht, Brussel). Firts project is about the potential of Collin itself. Since a month we are involved in an project called ‘rethinking systems engineering’ by INCOSE (international organisation of systems engineers). They asked us to bring in our method as a model for rethinking and boost SE with humans/subject as part of better engineering. Our holistic view is translated in the model that occurs to the ‘tower of life’. We call it Collin Universal Cooperation model. It contains all functions of reflection and creation we found, plus the relations between them (vertical and horizontal and crossing). The betaversion of this model to support complex work and engineering innovations of any kind will be ready early 2015.

PDF (11 Pages) Collin Body of Knowledge 2014

2014/12/09

Thomas Schwotzer: SharkSystem Negates Cloud and Servers — the Next Internet Emergent

#OSE Open Source Everything, Advanced Cyber/IO

I wrote a little programmers guide. It can be found on our web page:

SharkSystem Tutorials

SharkSystem Developers Guide

I use that guide as basis for my classes. That handbook isn't finished of course. We have two running application projects right now:

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2014/12/08

Yoda: Trebor Scholz on Platform Cooperativism

#OSE Open Source Everything, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics

Way ahead, this is.

Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy

The Bad: Sascha Lobo and Martin Kenneyrecently introduced the term platform capitalism, which I’d define in reference to subcontracting and rental economies with big payouts going to small groups of people. Occupations that cannot be off-shored, the pet walkers or home cleaners, are now subsumed under platform capitalism.

The Good: Worker-owned cooperatives can offer an alternative model of social organization to address financial instability. They will need to be · collectively owned, · democratically controlled businesses, · with a mission to anchor jobs, · offer health insurance and pension funds and, – a degree of dignity.

2014/12/08

Yoda: Sense-Making for Intelligence (Decision-Support)

Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence

Worthy.

Data Frame Model of Sensemaking Moore and Hoffman

Creating intelligence is a cognitive activity. Intelligence professionals – while they may use specific techniques or tools in their work – primarily think in order to understand complex causation and project to the future.

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Sensemaking Process Pirolli and Card

Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information

Category: Advanced Cyber/IO

Stephen E. Arnold: Open Source Search with Visualization