The Scant Science Behind Cambridge Analytica's Marketing Techniques
The Scant Science Behind Cambridge Analytica's Marketing Techniques
Nature peers into the evidence for ‘psychographic targeting’.
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Cambridge Analytica Scandal: Legitimate Researchers Using Facebook Data Could Be Collateral Damage
Cambridge Analytica Scandal: Legitimate Researchers Using Facebook Data Could Be Collateral Damage
The privacy backlash over Cambridge Analytica and Facebook may lead to explosive consequences for academics.
500,000 Britons’ Genomes Will Be Public by 2020, Transforming Drug Research
500,000 Britons’ Genomes Will Be Public by 2020, Transforming Drug Research
Six drug firms are paying to sequence the genes of every volunteer in the UK Biobank.
In China, a Three-Digit Score Could Dictate Your Place in Society
In China, a Three-Digit Score Could Dictate Your Place in Society
China is taking the idea of a credit score to the extreme, using big data to track and rank what you do - your purchases, your pastimes, your mistakes.
The Evolution of Data Leaks
Equifax aside, companies are doing better at securing their info. But the phishers keep coming.
Funding Knowledgebases: Towards a Sustainable Funding Model for the UniProt Use Case
Funding Knowledgebases: Towards a Sustainable Funding Model for the UniProt Use Case
Data resources can be very expensive, especially those with a high added value as the expert-curated knowledgebases.
What Happens When You Put 500,000 People's DNA Online
Huge genetic databases are changing how scientists study disease.
What the Acquisition of Meta Means for Scholarly Publishers
Meta, a data science company, has been acquired by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, whose aim is to accelerate the pace of scientific advances.
McKinsey's 2016 Analytics Study Defines The Future Of Machine Learning
Data and the Future of Healthcare
The Big Data era, the impact of data science and its impact biological research and healthcare: interview with Phil Bourne.
The Power of Big Data Must be Harnessed for Medical Progress
But grave challenges remain before the promise of individually tailored medicine becomes reality.
The New Digital Divide Raises Questions About Future Academic Research
Without access to large companies' datasets or the expertise to analyse them, research is confronted with a replication crisis and is vulnerable to commercial motivations.
Google’s DeepMind AI Can Lip-Read TV Shows Better Than a Pro
An artificial intelligence system developed by researchers at DeepMind and the University of Oxford got so good by watching 5000 hours of BBC programmes.
What to Do With the Data?
Physicists and scientific computing experts prepare for an onslaught of petabytes.
AI Company Specialized in Analyzing Scientific Literature
Meta’s mission is to unlock all of the world’s scientific and technical information through artificial intelligence.
The Artificial Intelligence that reads science
Iris is an Artificial Intelligence that starts out as a Science Assistant; helping you find the science you need. Over time she will learn, slowly but surely becoming a Scientist herself.
Text & Data Mining
Technologies based on the electronic analysis of large amounts of works are still in their infancy, and the possibilities they might open up in the future are largely unpredictable.
Crowdsourcing biomedical research: leveraging communities as innovation engines
Crowdsourcing biomedical research: leveraging communities as innovation engines
Crowdsourcing the analysis of complex and massive data has emerged as a framework to find robust methodologies. When the crowdsourcing is done in the form of collaborative scientific competitions, known as Challenges, the validation of the methods is inherently addressed.
Scientists Are Just as Confused About the Ethics of Big-Data Research as You
What Elsevier’s purchase of SSRN also means
SSRN’s data actually represents the world of social science scholarship reasonably well.
European Cloud Initiative to give Europe a global lead in the data-driven economy
The Commission today presented its blueprint for cloud-based services and world-class data infrastructure to ensure science, business and public services reap benefits of big data revolution.
Genome researchers raise alarm over big data
Storing and processing genome data will exceed the computing challenges of running YouTube and Twitter.
Funders must encourage scientists to share
To realize the full potential of large data sets, researchers must agree on better ways to pass data around, says Martin Bobrow.
Awesome public datasets
An awesome list of (large-scale) public datasets on the Internet. (On-going collection)
Bringing big data to public health
Separating the true signal from the gigantic amount of noise is neither easy nor straightforward, but it is a challenge that must be tackled if information is ever to be translated into societal well-being.
Understanding our role in the world of Big Data.
In a comic format, AJAM presents a graphic novella about Big Data, privacy and the future of sharing.
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