Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Stephen E. Arnold: Major Trends in Discovery Analytics

Advanced Cyber/IO
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Major Trends in Discovery Analytics

Posted: 15 Aug 2013 07:28 PM PDT

Analytics is the newest buzzword in the enterprise. Analytics indicates that that solution is intelligent and agile, and the industry is paying attention. Information Management gives the latest news in the article, “3 Major Trends in New Discovery Analytics.”

After a discussion of visual discovery’s role in data discovery, the author moves on to the second trend:

“The second trend is renewed focus on information discovery (i.e., search) . . . IBM acquired Vivisimo and has incorporated the technology into its PureSystems and big data platform. Microsoft recently previewed its big data information discovery tool, Data Explorer. Oracle acquired Endeca and has made it a key component of its big data strategy. SAP added search to its latest Lumira platform. LucidWorks, an independent information discovery vendor that provides enterprise support for open source Lucene/Solr, adds search as an API and has received significant adoption. There are different levels of search, from documents to social media data to machine data.”

LucidWorks is clearly holding their own among the major players, even huge proprietary companies like IBM and Oracle. And these longstanding commercial solutions are taking note of the real estate that the open source solutions, like LucidWorks, are carving out of their traditional territory. Users are pleased by the low price point, the efficient functionality, and the excellent customer support of LucidWorks and others like it.

Emily Rae Aldridge, August 22, 2013

Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search

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Stephen E. Arnold: Infographics Take on New Analytic Importance

Advanced Cyber/IO
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Infographics Take on New Analytic Importance

We are increasingly living in a big data and analytic society. But when discussing all this information, it’s hard to put a visual with it. Humans are, after all, very sight-oriented. However, that problem is quickly looking like a thing of the past after discovering a recent Make Use Of article, “Create Your Own Infographic about Your Facebook, Twitter and Youtube Use.”

According to the story:

What About Me is a free to use web service that lets you easily analyze how you have been using your Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube accounts. You start by granting the site access to your accounts. Your usage is analyzed and the infographic is generated while you play with some distractingly interactive circles that are displayed.

The infographic that is finally generated shows your interests in terms of percentages, how you react with friends, plus a number of other interesting things about your social networking usage.

This really is the next logical step in infographics. We’ve been lured, as Wired astutely pointed out, by infographics as “link bait” for a long time. It’s time we turned that gaze inward to see what our social habits say about us. This will take off, we predict.

Patrick Roland, August 21, 2013

Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search

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John Maguire: Dr. Edmund Storms on Cold Fusion, Nuclear Active Environments, and New Energy

05 Energy

Edmund Storms is a nuclear scientist with over two decades of experimental research in Cold Fusion. He is retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory, and is the founder of Kiva Labs. He is the author of The Science of Low Energy Nuclear Reaction, a comprehensive survey of the field published in 2007. He has also developed the theory of the Nuclear Active Environment as an explanatory mechanism for Low Energy Nuclear Reactions.

 

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Rickard Falkvinge: The French government is dumber than a squirrel with broccoli in its socks…

Government, Idiocy, Law Enforcement
Rickard Falkvinge
Rickard Falkvinge

…when it comes to anti-terror laws.  I am currently in Paris, and I have seen really stupid things around the world, but this takes the cake.

I’m sitting in a Starbucks and logging on to their wi-fi, and I’m greeted with this login screen, where I must fill in my name and address before going online. This is to make sure that terrorists can be tracked. About this point, the French parliament must have run out of oxygen.

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Eagle: Bradley Manning Lessons Learned

Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency, Media
300 Million Talons...
300 Million Talons…

Bradley Manning trial: six things we learned

As the army private awaits news of his sentencing, here's a look at the intriguing nuggets which emerged from his court martial

Lessons (List Only):

1. Bradley Manning made history

2. Journalism is no longer monopolised by traditional media

3. The US government may never have found Wikileaks' source

4. Wikileaks embarrassed the US government, but nobody died

5. The US military is no place for gay men questioning their gender

6. The war on US leakers is here to stay

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SchwartzReport: Lies, More Lies, Still More Lies, Then Some More Lies…

Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Ethics, Government

When your government lies to you over and over, as is the case in the U.S. today, the result is a loss of faith in the institutions of the state. I saw this happening in the old Soviet Union. People openly talked about how nothing the government said could be trusted. At the time it struck me as a very dangerous trend. Now it is happening here. This statement by the National Institute on Drug Abuse is an exa! mple. It is deceitful and dishonest in intent, and in fact, and the Obama Administration should be ashamed of itself. The lying that is coming out of the administration on in everything from national security to Marijuana is a disgrace. Click through to see some a very good compendium of actual facts.

Federal Drug Agency Denies Marijuana Is Less Toxic Than Alcohol
ROBIN WILKEY – The Huffington Post

This is a very serious issue that is getting almost no coverage in corporate media. Given its implications this is quite revealing of the state of American media. I have been digging into this for the past couple of weeks, and I am still unclear whether articles like this are alarmist, or an accurate representation of! what is going on. But one thing is clear, this is a major issue and appears to be a critical step in the rise of the Non-geographical corporate State's acquisition of power.   A world without democracy, ruled by a technocratic elite serving the interests of US and global capital – protecting “investor rights” against national laws and regulations – is now being created in secret negotiations over free-trade treaties, one of which, the TransPacific Parnership (TPP), may be sewn up this fall. Can popular will stop it?

NAFTA on Steroids: The TransPacific Partnership and Global Neoliberalism
CLIFF DURAND, Research Associate, Center for Global Justice and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Morgan State – Truthout

One of the more interesting trends going on right now as the decision by the Millenials to abandon Christianity. I think this is happening because the Theocratic Right lives in a realm of fantasy that Millenials can see is utterly bogus — 6,000 year old Earth, inerrant Bible, Creationism, and Clima! te Denierism.

Hemant Mehta on Rising Atheism Among Millenials: ‘It’s not That Christianity Is Unpopular, It’s That It’s Untrue
GEORGE CHIDI – The Raw Story

Here is some good news about the anti-GMO movement with which I am in complete agreement (See my esssay, The Great Experiment: Genetically Modified Organisms, Scientific Integrity, and National Wellness.)

Big Food Stocks and Anti-GMO Sentiment: The Right to Choose Movement Gains Strength
MINYANVILLE – NASDAQ

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