Co-founder of Big Data Week, Ande Gregson, will be one of the many competitors joining the annual gathering in Morocco in the Sahara desert for the Marathon des Sables in April 2014: A six-day, 250k self sufficient ultra marathon, which is the equivalent of six regular marathons, considered to be the toughest foot race on... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More