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Articles about Analytics and Data Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

Articles about Analytics and Data Science

From Data Science Central:   A good selection of articles about Analytics and Data Science from major publications.  Largely non-technical.

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Art
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Art

Happy Easter. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.

Quick Tips for Teaching Mini-Courses
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Quick Tips for Teaching Mini-Courses

I've been running my 'Computer Science and Games: Just for Girls!' course for Carleton's annual Enrichment Mini-Course Program for five years now.  And so at this...

What is Your Greatest Accomplishments in the Teaching Profession?
From Computer Science Teachers Association

What is Your Greatest Accomplishments in the Teaching Profession?

I recently was surprised at a faculty meeting by receiving an award for teaching from my colleagues. After receiving the award I was given a writing assignment...

A Systems Framework for Catastrophic Disaster Response
From Schneier on Security

A Systems Framework for Catastrophic Disaster Response

The National Academies Press has published Crisis Standards of Care: A Systems Framework for Catastrophic Disaster Response. When a nation or region prepares...

More Screens are Better
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Screens are Better

In Think With Google:  They states the obvious, but also that having your message clearly and efficiently delivered is important.   We already know from lots of...

Video based Detection Methods
From The Eponymous Pickle

Video based Detection Methods

Some good points about video detection and analysis.  This area continues to get more sophisticated and pervasive.  Expect it to get even more common:" .... It's...

Transformative Research: Reflections on a NSF Workshop
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Transformative Research: Reflections on a NSF Workshop

The following is a special contribution to this blog by Michael E. Gorman, a Professor in the department of science, technology, and society (STS) at the University...

Earth Institute publishes first ever World Happiness Report
From Putting People First

Earth Institute publishes first ever World Happiness Report

The first ever World Happiness Report has been made public and states that our best chance at a contented life is to pack up and move to Scandinavia, writes Wired...

Don Tapscott: The internet
From Putting People First

Don Tapscott: The internet

All our global institutions

Ambient Devices CEO Pritesh Gandhi on
From Putting People First

Ambient Devices CEO Pritesh Gandhi on

Chris Ziegler of The Verge had a chance recently to chat with Ambient co-founder and CEO Pritesh Gandhi to hear about the company’s past, present, and future. “We’re...

? Who Loses If Oracle Wins?
From Wild WebMink

? Who Loses If Oracle Wins?

Talking to people about the Oracle-Google case which comes to court on April 16th, I realised much of the background knowledge that explains things is lost to the...

James Randi on Magicians and the Security Mindset
From Schneier on Security

James Randi on Magicians and the Security Mindset

Okay, so he doesn't use that term. But he explains how a magician's inherent ability to detect deception can be useful to science. We can't make magicians out...

Have You Joined Microsoft Partners in Learning?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Have You Joined Microsoft Partners in Learning?

This is one of those announcements that hits my inbox that is for all teachers in K-12. Partners in Learning is a community of educators of all subjects and age...

Optimizaing Networks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Optimizaing Networks

Fraunhofer report on software that uses simulation to optimize networks.  Network technology is often used to understand and make networks more efficient.   A common...

Looking at Store Behavior with Data Mining
From The Eponymous Pickle

Looking at Store Behavior with Data Mining

A Spectrum IEEE Techwise Conversation with data-mining expert Eric Siegel.  Your favorite stores know you all too well.  President of Prediction Impact.  This company...

Social Abacus Blog
From The Eponymous Pickle

Social Abacus Blog

I was just reminded of Kate Nieder's Social Abacus blog.  " ... a social psych PhD who has worked in social media analysis for about 7 years. In September 2008....

Bit packing is fast, but integer logarithm is slow
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Bit packing is fast, but integer logarithm is slow

In How fast is bit packing?, we saw how to store non-negative integers smaller than 2N using N bits per integer by a technique called bit packing. A careful C++...

Helen Nussenbaum, Privacy, and the Federal Trade Commission
From Schneier on Security

Helen Nussenbaum, Privacy, and the Federal Trade Commission

Good article.

Kiosk and Mobile Connection
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kiosk and Mobile Connection

A less common approach, a means to deliver coupons to shopper smartphones via BlueTooth.   We experimented with coupons that printed on a  kiosk in store based...
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