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The Humanities Take on Data Mining via Google Books

22 June 2010
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The Humanities are “Going Google”, according to Marc Parry of The Chronicle, in a piece he wrote a few weeks ago.
The gist of the article is that some Humanities scholars are very interested in data mining the texts scanned in for the Google Books Project.
Why do they want to use Big Data mining techniques [...]

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The Public Domain Manifesto

5 February 2010
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“The Public Domain Manifesto” has been released by COMMUNIA, the European Thematic Network on the digital public domain. If you would like to show your support for this cause, after you have read “The Public Domain Manifesto”, you may sign it. You may choose whether or not you would like your signature displayed online. Below, [...]

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China Battles the “Information Barbarians”?

31 January 2010
China vs. Google and the Information Curtain

Ian Baruma has a thought-provoking article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, entitled, “China Battles the Information Barbarians“. The author puts Google management’s decision to stop cooperating with Chinese censors and their threat to close down its operations in China in historical context. According to Baruma, the Chinese government has battled Western Information Imperialism since the [...]

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Roger Magoulas Defines a Data Scientist

18 January 2010
Roger Magoulas Discusses Big Data and Data Science

Roger Magoulas, the director of market research at O’Reilly Media, defines a Data Scientist in the short video Big Data (part one), which is part of O’Reilly’s “The Future at Work” video series.

First, he sees a Data Scientist as someone with an amalgamation of skills that used to be reserved only for academic institutions [...]

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“A Data Deluge Swamps Science Historians”

14 January 2010
Server cabinets at a data center

A few months ago, Robert Lee Holtz wrote an article in the Science Journal section of the Wall Street Journal where he discussed how the data deluge is swamping scientists and researchers.
The author addressed the particular issue of how curators store data for current and future access so that other scientists may access the data [...]

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Should Cloud Computing Be Called Swamp Computing?

5 January 2010
NC Swamp: Should Cloud Computing Be Called Swamp Computing?

David Talbot at Technology Review published an article recently entitled, “Security in the Ether“. The author writes that the efficiencies of cloud computing are also its weaknesses. Users’ access to all of the bells and whistles a cloud offers could also enable them to attack a specific target, once they were able to get onto [...]

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