and was only off by 400,000 on the popular vote. How ya like big data now? VentureBeat has the story. (VB) See out previous coverage of Nate Silver here.
and was only off by 400,000 on the popular vote. How ya like big data now? VentureBeat has the story. (VB) See out previous coverage of Nate Silver here.
Here’s a piece from the Center for Digital Eduction about how predictive analytics are making inroads into the slow moving world of college education. The impetus is cost savings and graduating students in four years. The upshot: an algo might match you up with certain professors/classes.
Climate Corp. is selling weather insurance to farmers based on data that the farmers provide to the company. Climate Corp. then crunches the data (a cool trillion fields) and offers the farmers bespoke crop insurance. Read the gigaom.com article here.
Interesting piece in the MIT Technology Review about how big oil companies are using analytics on real time data to avoid spills and increase productivity, here.
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