The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
In FBI murder data, mass killings often go missing When 26 teachers, students and administrators were shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School, it made national news for weeks. But there was one place 2012’s largest mass killing was never mentioned: the FBI database that tracks all U.S. homicides. And that isn’t the only …
Big Data Shockers: Not Big The statement that “we have too much data” underscores the individual’s inability to think about information in a way that is helpful. Both the craziness about Big Data and the too much to do approach to work are cover ups. The issue is rooted deep within many individuals who are …
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The next step in Open Science? Text and Data Mining! The new H2020 European project “OpenMinTeD” will be the first to build an infrastructure that makes it much easier to mine, by making existing text mining tools discoverable, interoperable and usable. The infrastructure brings together text and data registries/databases and will develop a standard layer, …
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Oh, Oh. Big Data Has Problems. Impossible. A happy quack to the reader who alerted me to “5 Problems with Big Data.” How can this be? Big Data is the new black, the new enterprise search, the new information management opportunity.
Try harder, must we. The FBI Built a Database That Can Catch Serial Rapists—and Almost Nobody Uses It For roughly 30 years the FBI has virtually ignored a system meant to help cops track the behavioral patterns of violent criminals.
Data-Driven, Networked Urbanism by Rob Kitchin offers a a useful overview of the various critiques of smart cities. Abstract: For as long as data have been generated about cities various kinds of data-informed urbanism have been occurring. In this paper, I argue that a new era is presently unfolding wherein data-informed urbanism is increasingly being …
Bridging the Environmental Data Divide: When Earth Texts Home In our latest From the Field, Frontline SMS CEO Sean McDonald talks about their new environmental sensor, designed to bridge the environmental data divide with open hardware. Many thanks to Sean McDonald for sharing this article about the exciting environmental sensor technology Frontline SMS have developed with …
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