Can the Climate Corporation Help Farmers Survive? Mining #bigdata changes a most traditional profession
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/11/11/131111fa_fact_specter MT @PernilleT
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NOVEMBER 11, 2013
Posts Tagged ‘bigdata’
Michael Specter: Can the Climate Corporation Help Farmers Survive Global Warming? : The New Yorker
November 9, 2013Genome Biology | Full text | Astrogenomics: big data, old problems, old solutions?
October 22, 2013MT @genomematt Astrogenomics: #bigdata, old problems, old solutions: Both propose organizing the data hierarchically
http://genomebiology.com/2013/14/8/129
News & Analysis Cell Biology: NIH Effort Gambles on Mysterious Extracellular RNAs feedly
September 2, 2013New $17M program exploring mysterious extracellular #RNA: defining its action, collecting #bigdata http://scim.ag/18nWSyU MT @lopezjenniferw
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/947.full
[News & Analysis] Cell Biology: NIH Effort Gambles on Mysterious Extracellular RNAs
A $17 million research program, announced this month by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, aims to determine whether RNA molecules are deliberately released by cells as hormonelike signals—and whether such extracellular RNAs can be harnessed for diagnosis and treatment of human diseases.
Author: Mitch Leslie
Competing on Analytics – Harvard Business Review
June 11, 2013http://www2.mccombs.utexas.edu/faculty/Maytal.Saar-Tsechansky/Teaching/Documents/Harvard%20Business%20Review%20Online%20%20Competing%20on%20Analytics.htm http://hbr.org/2006/01/competing-on-analytics/ar/1
An early paper on big data analytics in commercial organizations. Nice overview.
Great quote at the end: “The Oakland A’s aren’t the only ones playing moneyball. Companies of every stripe want to be part of the game.”
Big Process for Big Data (2 May 2013)
May 11, 2013Ian Foster talk at CERN on Big Data
https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=239385
Social science: Dr Seldon, I presume | The Economist
March 23, 2013how psychohistory (from the Foundation Trilogy) is finally coming into its own!
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21572159-data-social-networks-are-making-social-science-more-scientific-dr-seldon-i
Competing on Analytics – Harvard Business Review
November 11, 2012Data Scientist: Sexiest Job of the 21st Century
October 20, 2012– Does this make Bioinformatics cool?
http://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century Harvard Business Review
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