Blog - Big Data Week Blog

This exhibition will be published on the Google Cultural Institute in partnership with the Mundaneum. You’re invited to discover a part of the exhibition at the Theater Le Manège on Thursday the 8th may in the framework of Kenneth Cukier’s lecture: kenneth-cukier-the-economist-in-conference-in-mons “In full phase of digital intoxication, where digitalization has to solve all the problems of communication and production of contents, we have to face the facts today: digital technology is not the solution...

Big data, Page Ranking and Application By Pr. Nahid Emad, Maison de la Simulation / PRiSM , Université de Versailles The surge of medical and nutritional data in the field of health requires research of models and methods as well as the development of data analysis tools. The spread of infectious diseases, detection of biomarkers for prognosis and diagnosis of the disease, research of indicators for personalized nutrition and/or medical treatment, are some typical examples...

Data in the 21st century is like oil in the 18th century: an untapped, immensely valuable asset. Technology, through machine learning, can use that data to improve our lives, may it be by filtering spam email or telling us which vitamins we need. Like oil, for those who see data’s fundamental value and learn to extract and use it there will be huge rewards. Machine learning is a way for technology to turn big data...

It’s 3am and the club smells of sweat and sex. These kids are too cool for cologne. The club has goths and hipsters, liplocked teenagers and adulterous ad-men, coked out city boys and just paroled bouncers comparing their Prison Tats with a well known architect by day and rent boy by night. Sometimes, there is a place that defines a generation. Paris in the 20’s, New York in the 80’s and now it’s London. Sometimes...

The thought that ‘hey there’s more data than we can process!’ is dressed up as the latest trend with associated technology must-haves. Big data has become one of the most overused corporate buzzwords for 2014. If your not dropping it into conversations, pretending you know what it is and tweeting about it you might as well not even bother turning up for school. If your not part of the big data movement, forget trying to get...

Data in the 21st Century is like Oil in the 18th Century: an untapped, immensely valuable asset. And like Oil, for those who see Data’s fundamental value and learn to extract and use it there will be huge rewards. Let’s take a typical scenario. A hundred person recruitment company wants to hire an experienced consultant for themselves. What do they do? Generally, they will write a job description, give it to HR and start interviewing candidates. If...

If a pile of data falls in a forest and nobody sees it, does it really exist? We’re swamped in a deluge of facts, figures, statistics, and numbers endlessly competing on a screen in order to be seen, heard and understood. The explosion of articles surrounding big data serves to highlight how much of colossal impact big data is expected to have. ‘Big Data predictions for 2014’ articles endlessly stream into my inbox, and the...

Outcomes are an important motivator in the business world and beyond, but just how much are companies driven by the end goal that inspired their whole enterprise? What if the process of reaching a desirable outcome was more efficient because metric-based evidence had eliminated time-wasting efforts? Automatic data analysis will allow workers to significantly shorten the time dedicated to research and grappling to form insight needed for reliable, focused planning. As companies grow their presence...

Palimpsest Exhibit

Big Data, Page Ranking and Medical Application

By Digging for Data, You Could Stumble on a Goldmine

Voice Analytics by Day, DJ by Night

Lessons from Bear Grylls on Big and Little Data

Data Is The New Oil: Untapped

Data Visualisation can change how we think about the world

What Changes Will Big Data Analytics Bring?