Stephen E. Arnold: IBM Makes Hadoop Quick and Easy with BigInsight

IBM Makes Hadoop Quick and Easy with BigInsight The article titled InfoSphere BigInsights on IBM promotes the use of Apache Hadoop, an open source software framework, with IBM’s BigInsight. Not only is the product free to download, but IBM offers BigInsight to simplify Hadoop for users. To begin, visit the Quick Start Edition page, with …

SchwartzReport: Snapshot of Deep Evil in US Banks & Commerce — Enabled by Direct Corruption of Government

Here is an excellent assessment of how the corruption that is eating away our democracy like a cancer operates. “Bagful of Cash” Report Exposing the US Chamber of Commerce CARL GIBSON – Reader Supported News The following is an excerpt from Shut the Chamber’s new 28-page report, “Bagful of Cash: How the U.S. Chamber of …

Reflections on Tired Databases versus Wired Analytics + Jack Davis & Analytic Tradecraft RECAP

There are multiple analytic flaws with most source data, and particularly with any source data labeled in relation to terrorism. If Israelis have have touched the data in any way, shape, or form (especially including the software), it must be considered contaminated and severely suspect.  While I have nothing critical to say about the application …

Neal Rauhauser: US Global Terrorism Database & Sentinel Visualizer

Global Terrorism Database & Sentinel Visualizer Earlier this week I had a go at Visualizing The Global Terror Database using Gephi. Three weeks ago I laid hands on a license for Sentinel Visualizer a law enforcement/intelligence grade link analysis and data visualization tool. Today I had some broken time and in between a stream of phone …

Eagle: Recommended book, Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America

Recommended — but also misleading, in that democracy was lost the day JFK died, and no later than 1978 when the economy peaked against the middle class. Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America John Nichols (Author), Robert W. McChesney (Author) Amazon Book Description: Fresh from the first $10 billion election …

Robin Good: Exploring Curation as a Core Competency in Digital and Media Literacy Education

How can content curation be used in education to support and enhance the development of new media literacy skills?  Paul Mihailidis from the Department of Marketing Communication at Emerson College in tandem with James N Cohen from the School of Communication at Hofstra University, have outlined six different ways in which content curation can be …