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Plugging water leaks with data
Cities in the developed world lose between 10-30% of their drinking water through leaks. Water companies call this “non-revenue water” because they treat the water but cannot charge for it since it...
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Trading on sentiment
Computers don’t get emotionally invested in financial trades, but they do take feelings seriously. Case in point: The financial trading dashboard managed by Thomson Reuters uses sentiment analysis data...
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With M2M, the machines do all the talking
The shift from transporting voice to delivering data has transformed the business of mobile carriers, but there’s yet another upheaval on the horizon: machine to machine communications (M2M). In M2M,...
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Algorithms are the new medical tests
Predictive Medical Technologies claims that it can use real-time, intensive care unit (ICU) monitoring data to predict clinical events like cardiac arrest up to 24 hours ahead of time. Effectively, the...
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Dating with data
OkCupid is a free dating site with seven million users. The site’s blog, OkTrends, mines data from those users to tackle important subjects like “The case for an older woman” and “The REAL ‘stuff white...
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The smart grid data deluge
The smart grid is an information revolution for utilities, and the first source of that information is smart meters. A smart meter records consumption of electricity in intervals of an hour or less and...
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Big crime meets big data
Marc Goodman (@futurecrimes) is a former Los Angeles police officer who started that department’s first Internet crime unit in the mid-1990s. After two decades spent working with Interpol, the United...
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The hidden language and "wonderful experience" of product reviews
How do reviews, both positive and negative, influence the price of a product on Amazon? What phrases used by reviewers make us more or less likely to complete a purchase? These are some of the...
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