More data isn’t necessarily better unless it’s properly collected, curated and analysed.
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Roads versus public transport: for decades, these have been the battle lines in debates over transport in our cities. But a revolution in mobility is under way that will transform our thinking.
It’s almost impossible for any human to spot something unknown or unusual in the massive amount of data collected by our telescopes. So we’re teaching an intelligent machine to search the data for us.
Facebook has banned insurance firm Admiral from using its data but research suggests it could predict if you’re a risk taker.
How can the law deals with a new space like the datasphere ?
Precision public health has the potential to transform the global health sphere by ensuring that the right interventions are brought to the right people in the right places.
Is the rise of big data and the use of algorithms by businesses to blame for modern society’s ills?
Data surveillance has become increasingly invasive and its scope has broadened.
Capitalism has become focused on expanding the proportion of social life that is open to data collection and processing – as if the social itself has become the new target of capitalism’s expansion.
By tapping into diverse data sources in Flint, researchers can predict vulnerable homes and even have found that home water service lines may not be the biggest contributor to lead poisoning.
People in all manner of professions from economists and real estate agents to stockbrokers and doctors are beginning to recognise the huge potential and power of unconventional data.
Space tourists will need someone to show them around. This is just one of several jobs that currently don’t exist but are expected to be a reality with in a decade.
Computer-aided decision-making has been shown to help in clinical contexts. But winning over doctors and patients is a different matter.
The Australian census is just one way to gather data on people. We also freely give out information in other ways that can be used to study many things, and maybe even predict an election result.
This method of crowdsourcing science legwork is ready to expand into other disciplines – and maybe the amateurs themselves can start calling some of the shots.
Machine learning is being used to see if it’s possible to predict whether someone will commit a crime some time in the future. But does this risk condemning people for a crime they haven’t committed?
The writing process is different whether your instrument is a fountain pen, a crayon, a typewriter or a computer. What fingerprints does the technology leave on the product?
Until recently data was largely retrospective, telling a story of the past. Real-time feeds are revolutionary.
Most industries tap into big data these days – meaning more and more jobs are opening up in this field. Here’s some background on the skills and qualities you’d use as a modern big data professional.
A new mathematical model of ISIS supporters’ online behavior provides insights into how cyberactivity relates to real-world attacks.
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Professor, Director of Big data and smart analytics lab - IIIS, Griffith University
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Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Adjunct professor, UNSW ; University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at Altoona campus, Penn State
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Lecturer and Teacher, Department of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University
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Fellow of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Professor of Cybersecurity, Head of School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Bernard A. Galler Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
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Senior lecturer, University of Twente