Posted on Jul 3, 2014 | Comments Off on Beyond Bayes: What Data-Driven Analysis Could Mean For Sports – And Science 2.0
So the USA lost to Belgium in the World Cup elimination round. I predicted a win for the US for a simple reason - Belgium, I said, does not know how good it is, whereas the US does. That's fuzzy logic, right? Well, that is what a lot of sports analysis is, because analysis at its heart relies on subjective scouting. Pundits can pretend to science it up all they want, but they are just doing...
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Posted on Jul 3, 2014 | Comments Off on IBM Wants To Manage Big Data For The Internet Of Things – What It Means For Science 2.0
IBM takes data seriously, as seriously as they took Business Machines back in their early days. They want to be the resource for the blanket concept of The Internet Of Things. Someone will have to do it, because the amount of information available today is overwhelming. When you can produce 250 gigabytes of data an hour, you have too much data. Or you are onto something big.
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