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Hey! You! Get off my crowd: is crowdsourcing becoming a meaningless buzzword?
February 20, 2012 Share Over the last few months, I have been spending more and more time in the US, doing my best to soak up the famous American culture (while rushing between meetings).
Of course, regardless of what country you live in, one event which you cannot escape is the Super Bowl: that special time of year, when the world comes together to ignore America’s favorite sport. This year …
The Great War Archive: could crowd conscription help?
January 9, 2012 Share At this time of year, it often seems like people in the media industry are still too full/hungover from Christmas and New Year’s over-indulgence to do any real work. Filling the newspapers are either stories remembering the year just ended, or nostalgic human-interest stories.
Seeing as we have already reflected on 2011 , we decided it was a good time to talk about …
All I want for Christmas is you clear terminology
December 19, 2011
Share As you are all no doubt well aware, in the weeks leading up to Christmas, every song on the radio, every elevator conversation and every piece of advertising stuffed into our mailboxes must be Christmas-themed. It’s enough to ruin what should be a fun time of year. Which is why this blog post is definitely, absolutely not going to be about Christmas.
Ok, I lied. This …
Kaggle: crowdsourcing genius or statistical anomaly?
November 14, 2011 Share In 2009 Hal Varian , Google’s chief economist, famously claimed that “the sexy job in the next ten years will be statistician” . It still sounds pretty improbable right?
I mean, when did you last see a data-analyst fighting off screaming groupies? Statistics isn’t even a cool branch of maths.
Real “pure” mathematicians wrestle with the fundamental …
Crowded planet: desperately seeking sustainability
November 8, 2011Share According to the latest UN figures , there are now over 7 billion people living on planet earth. In response, the world’s media has exploded with dire predictions of famine, war and climate disaster (and some great info-graphics ). Of course, in Finland over-population is hardly a major problem (except for reindeer and right-wing politicians ). But we’re probably …
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