I found an article this morning that informed me that Amazon was granted a patent (in December) for a process called “Anticipatory Shipping.” My immediate suspicion was that this was more of Amazon’s extensive use of Big Data and I was right. They (Amazon) have gathered so much data on shopping habits that they can …
I teach graduate and undergraduate statistics (quantitative analysis) and I am often asked by business students struggling with the numbers “what am I really going to use this for in real life?” True it may be difficult at first to understand the relevance of pure number crunching using the binomial distribution or chi square. So …
I’ve been on Facebook since 2007 but have not been addicted to it until recently. That may be do to an “aging” effect that I intend to research. But I have been active enough to notice that my friends seem to have more friends that I do. And that my friends seem to do more …
I’ve been tracking Big Data, really trying to get up to speed with predictive analytics and the like but have developed an interest in the widespread impact of big data across the spectrum of things I am interested in. One being Connectivism as a new theory of learning. Well connectivism has strong links to MOOCs and this article …