how 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
Posts Tagged ‘mining’
Social science: Dr Seldon, I presume | The Economist
March 23, 2013Facebook ‘Likes’ reveal more about you than you think | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
March 17, 2013Facebook ‘likes’ can predict gender, ethnicity etc….
March 17, 2013http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/03/06/1218772110.abstract Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior
Michal Kosinskia
David Stillwella, and
Thore Graepelb
Big Data excerpt: How Mike Flowers revolutionized New York’s building inspections. – Slate Magazine
March 7, 2013Influential Few Predict Behavior of the Many: Scientific American
February 28, 2013QT:” looked at the entire human metabolic network and found that concentrations of about 10 percent of the body’s 2,763 metabolites could be used to determine the levels of all the rest.”
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=influential-few-predict-behavior
The Fallacy of the Data Scientist Shortage | Competing on Decisions
February 19, 2013Puncturing the hype around data science
http://hiredbrains.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/the-fallacy-of-the-data-scientist-shortage/
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