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Elizabeth E Charles
May 20, 2013 6:44 AM
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Rufus Pollock, Founder and Co-Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation, discusses why current hype around big data misses the point, and why the real revolution is small data, loosely joined (Forget big data, small data is the real revolution
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 19, 2013 8:06 PM
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Is there too much hype around 'big data'? Kenneth Cukier thinks so, and yet he remains passionate about what we can achieve with it.
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 17, 2013 4:19 AM
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You know those words that gradually start to crop up more and more frequently until you feel you really should find out more? In academic circles, ‘analytics’ is probably one of those words. The Wikipedia definition is a bit dry – ‘the discovery and communication of meaningful patterns in data’ – but at its most practical, analytics offers a means for universities and colleges to examine the reams of routinely collected data in new ways, to gain insights that can help to improve student and teacher experience, and bring about greater operational efficiencies.
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 16, 2013 3:08 AM
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The Evolution of Research Data: Strategies for Curation and Data Management. When: Thursday, May 16, 2013 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM. Where: Boar's Head Sports Club. See: Event Website. Description: The University of Virginia Library, the ...
The story of how data became big starts many years before the current buzz around big data.
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 11, 2013 6:50 PM
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A Big Data Storage Tip: One Size Does Not Fit All
EdTech Magazine: Focus on Higher Education
"It's more challenging to actually analyze large data sets than figure out where to store them," Stoica says.
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 11, 2013 12:43 PM
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The small, personal details of life can play just as important a role as the large data sets businesses are excited about.
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 8, 2013 12:03 PM
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A new analytics engine from education technology company Desire2Learn uses big data to predict and improve student performance in higher education.
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 7, 2013 5:38 PM
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Coming to TERMS American Libraries After swapping ideas between library organizations in the United States and the United Kingdom on what ERM actually means, we came up with six TERMS, started working on a draft document, and created a plan for a...
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 5, 2013 8:40 PM
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Inaccurate analytics are leaving site owners confused about how people are finding them.
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 4, 2013 6:26 PM
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IBM now develops a gamut of innovative software and hardware technologies that can help companies ingest and make sense of Big Data.
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 4, 2013 2:23 PM
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Wired The Importance of Making Big Data Accessible to Non-Data Scientists Wired Close behind “Big Data” as one of the most utilized enterprise technology terms today is “Data Scientist.” Many postulate that the explosion in Big Data will usher in...
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 2, 2013 4:53 PM
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Hadoop was named after a toy elephant, sounds like a Dr. Seuss character, and it's the hottest thing in big-data technology. It's a software framework that makes short work of a tall task—managing really big data.
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 20, 2013 6:44 AM
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BU Libraries and IS&T are pleased to offer a new resource for researchers at all levels working with data. The new research data management website can help frame your thinking about data management and access, and ...
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 17, 2013 4:20 AM
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GeoFlow helps you automatically map clicks, conversions, revenue and more within minutes; create amazing visualizations like heatmaps and 3D column charts; and has play button functionality to show trends over time.
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 16, 2013 3:08 AM
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 12, 2013 8:26 PM
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The human face of big data: a beautifully illustrated e-book chock full of visual explanation! http://t.co/y0ykQFw127
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 11, 2013 6:44 PM
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In the face of greater amounts of available information than ever before, nonprofits must shake their fear and act decisively.
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 9, 2013 7:10 AM
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Will Kelly tells us about some unconventional uses of Big Data and predictive analytics that are happening across multiple industries.
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 8, 2013 6:27 AM
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 7, 2013 5:37 PM
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Heard of Big Data? How about #smalldata?
There’s been loads of buzz this month around #smalldata, and the need to prevent the centralisation of data-power in the hands of the few.
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 5, 2013 12:33 PM
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Ten recommendations for libraries to get started with research data management by LIBER. Liber logo. The LIBER E-Science working group has published its final report on research data management. LIBER installed the ...
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 4, 2013 4:12 PM
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Elizabeth E Charles
May 3, 2013 4:58 PM
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A “big data” health research centre at the University of Oxford has been announced as the latest to benefit from the government’s UK Research Partnership Investment Fund.
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