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Visualizing a Controversy

Posted on February 13, 2019 by Hydrakos

For anyone interested in data visualization, there had to be some level of satisfaction in seeing the controversy sparked by a chart tweeted out by Bill Gates. The chart, one of several in an infographic Gates included in a tweet was a fairly simple area

Posted in Trends

Hydrakos Consulting is Five Years Old

Posted on April 25, 2018 by Hydrakos

Hydrakos Consulting LLC is five years old this month. It has been an excellent, if very ephemeral, five years. This post is to commemorate the anniversary and so is a little more personal. I set up Hydrakos Consulting as a vehicle for me to ease

Posted in General

A Security Framework Deadline Passes with Little Notice

Posted on January 30, 2018 by Hydrakos

Another data disclosure fiasco is in the news now. Data from fitness monitors is apparently giving away troop and base locations around the globe. It is somewhat surprising given the frequency of disclosures like this that a fairly significant deadline concerning information security just passed

Posted in Governance, Strategy

ARE DATA STANDARDS ABOUT TO TRANSFORM EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY?

Posted on November 3, 2016 by Hydrakos

A while back I commented on the lessons the Financial Services industry data standardization process might offer to the Healthcare industry. Since then I’ve become actively involved in another standardization effort, this time in K-12 education. At the recent annual summit of the Ed-Fi Alliance,

Posted in Governance

BIG DATA BASED METRICS ARE REPLACING TRADITIONAL MEASURES

Posted on June 15, 2015 by Hydrakos

The landscape for gathering information around public health and public opinion has seen some dramatic changes. Some of them are obvious, that Twitter reflects in real time virtually any event that is happening, for example. Some are less so because they involved an evolution from

Posted in Trends

SOCIAL MEDIA SENTIMENT MEASURED IN REAL-TIME

Posted on March 21, 2015 by Hydrakos

The trend watcher, Dan Burris, can usually be counted on for an observation that will cause a number of seemingly unrelated data points that have floated amorphously on your radar to coalesce into something concrete. Such was the case recently when he pointed out that

Posted in Trends