Berto Jongman: Wikileaks, Open Data, Big Data, & Predicting Violence in Afghanistan

Computer forecasting matched rises, ebbs in Afghanistan violence Phys.Org, July 17, 2012 By Jon Bardin In August 2010, shortly after WikiLeaks released tens of thousands of classified documents that cataloged the harsh realities of the war in Afghanistan, a group of friends – all computer experts – gathered at the New York City headquarters of …

Winslow Wheeler: CBO Truth, DoD Lies, Political Theater

An important and informative Tony Capaccio article (from Bloomberg; shown below) came out today.  It summarizes (accurately) CBO’s analysis of the budget effects of sequester: if sequester were to occur, the Pentagon’s “base” (non-war) budget would be $469 billion for 2013.  This is slightly above what was spent in 2006, and it is “larger than the …

20120711 Open Source Everything Highlights

Open Source Everything #openall (Twitter Hashtag) DAILY HIGHLIGHTS:  http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ALL ROOT POST: http://tinyurl.com/OSE-ROOT THE BOOK:  http://tinyurl.com/OSE-Steele THE PERSON:  http://tinyurl.com/Steele2012   Includes Autonomous Internet, Crowd-Funding/Sensing/Sourcing, and Transparency-Truth-Trust, & True Cost

Carnegie Council Competitive Ethics Just Business: Two Interviews on Competitive Intelligence – Richard Horowitz and Cynthia Cheng Correia

Two Interviews on Competitive Intelligence – Richard Horowitz and Cynthia Cheng Correia Carnegie Council Competitive Ethics Just Business July 3, 2012 JULIA TAYLOR KENNEDY: Welcome to Just Business. I’m Julia Taylor Kennedy. Thomas Jefferson once said, “I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.” One field that …

Winslow Wheeler: GAO’s June 14 F-35 Report Understates Its Own Findings; Uses Misdirecting DOD Criteria

Phi Beta Iota:  Until governments commit to true-cost economics (and of course to telling the truth and being fully transparent) they will not achieve full legitmacy and efficacy in serving the public interest.  The work of one man, Winslow Wheeler, should shame all governments by example, but especially the US Government, where no fraud, waste, …

Flavia Marzano: Gephi, an open source graph visualization and manipulation software

Gephi, an open source graph visualization and manipulation software Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs. Runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Gephi is open-source and free. Applications Exploratory Data Analysis: intuition-oriented analysis by networks manipulations in real time. Link …