Dianne Buckner, CBC News, 2015/02/26
Big data trend now being applied to managing human resources
Dianne Buckner, CBC News, 2015/02/26
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Questioning the Data
George Couros, Connected Principals, 2015/02/25
"There are a few things that I question when I hear schools talk about solely 'data driven'," writes George Couros. "Nothing works for everyone. Nothing. So when we look at “proven methods”, we are often looking at something that is more focused on the “system” than an individual." More...
Par Philippe Tranchart. Le traitement des données – big data – permet de mieux évaluer les parcours de formation pour accroître leur performance. L’entreprise française Formetris est pionnière en la matière. Son président Laurent Balagué explique la spécificité de sa méthode. Voir l'article...
By Tracy Mitrano. It’s Data Privacy Year from what I can tell, but let’s use this trope!
First, President Obama has proposed federal legislation on student data privacy. I will devote another blog to this issue down the road. For the moment, the higher education community should be prioritizing this matter with a focus on two areas: one, including higher education (at this point it is written for only K-12) and – this is important – two, making sure that the language is precise about the most critical issue of this entire conundrum: profiling. Read more...
« Les organisations débordent de données » : voilà le constat abordé dans un article des Echos.fr qui revient sur les obstacles que rencontrent les organisations face à l’optimisation et à la qualité de leurs données toujours plus abondantes. L’article donne plusieurs clefs, sous la forme de points de vigilance, pour pallier à ces difficultés.
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By . Everyone has heard the meme or a close variant: 90 percent of all the data in the world has been created in the last two years. As suspect as such statistics may be, they nevertheless speak to an underlying truth: We are inundated with data as never before. More...
By Prof. Hacker. You might be one of the 80 million people impacted by the cyber-security breach at health insurance provider Anthem yesterday; I am. [Me, too! – JBJ] While my medical records are safe, the hackers possible have all of my other relevant information needed to steal my identity, not to mention the identity of my children (which is often easier to do because who monitors their kids’ credit ratings?). More...
By Dalton Conley et al. After decades of fretting over declining response rates to traditional surveys (the mainstay of 20th-century social research), an exciting new era would appear to be dawning thanks to the rise of big data. Social contagion can be studied by scraping Twitter feeds; peer effects are tested on Facebook; long-term trends in inequality and mobility can be assessed by linking tax records across years and generations; social-psychology experiments can be run on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service; and cultural change can be mapped by studying the rise and fall of specific Google search terms. In many ways there has been no better time to be a scholar in sociology, political science, economics, or related fields. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Privacy challenges
Larry Hardesty, MIT News, 2015/02/04
This story has been making the rounds (I heard it on BBC world last night): an MIT research project is determined that you can positively identify a person with only four data points across a set of anonymized data. More...