The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Twitter Melted Down Over Three Million Illegal Votes I recently became internet famous for a tweet (above) after having been identified as the source for a similar tweet by President-elect Trump. Twitter blew up. I found myself wondering if I was really a Russian or Israeli spy. Did I really murder people in an armed …
The Game-Changing Power of Visualization Data visualization may be hitting at just the right time. Data Floq shared an article highlighting the latest, Data Visualisation Can Change How We Think About The World. As the article mentions, we are primed for it biologically: the human eye and brain processes 10 to 12 separate images per …
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The Disconnect: Big Data and Business Strategy Imagine that: Big Data may not have a direct impact on business strategy. I read “Why Big Data and Algorithms Won’t Improve Business Strategy.” I learned that Big Data learns by playing algorithmic chess. The “moves” can be converted to patterns. The problem is that no one knows …
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Fake News and Data Mining: Mapping Today’s Media for Intel Analysis Whatever your take on the 2016 U.S. presidential election, it is becoming obvious that one of the biggest losers of the campaign was the mainstream media. After generations of relying upon newspapers and network news to tell us what is going on in the …
Emphasize Data Suitability over Data Quantity It seems obvious to us, but apparently, some folks need a reminder. Harvard Business Review proclaims, “You Don’t Need Big Data, You Need the Right Data.” Perhaps that distinction has gotten lost in the Big Data hype.
In Connected World, Users Are Getting Reared as Slaughter Animals Yahoo, Facebook, Google, WhatsApp, Instagram and Microsoft all have one thing in common; for any service that they provide for free, they are harnessing your private data to be sold to advertisers. Mirror UK recently published an Op-Ed titled Who Is Spying on You? What …
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Disparate Data Challenge encourages participants to offer solutions that can demonstrate effective capabilities that enable access to data that is wildly disparate in its formats, schemas, interfaces and locations, so that it may be available for search, business metrics and data and information analytics. Here is our submittal to NGA …
