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 by with hardly any notice. The deadline was for any …
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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, I was reminded again of the early days of expanding …
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In his book Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread, Alex Pentland, sets his sights on, among other things, “entire cities” as targets for solutions based on Big Data. Pentland defines Social Physics this way: “social physics seeks to understand how the flow of ideas and information translates into changes in behavior.” The author cites an …
Back when I was managing software development, there was a phrase I used to use when project deadlines were approaching: “Turn it up a notch!” Needless to say, that did not always go over well with the developers. There are always going to be projects that get to those points, but there’ll be more of …
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Perspective is a fascinating concept. If you’ve had the good fortune to visit the Taj Mahal, you may have a picture of yourself appearing to hold the amazing white marble structure by its finial as if it were a small toy, a perspective distorting feat made possible by taking a picture from some distance away. …
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Traffic jams in India can be amazing for the variety of vehicles, the cacophony of horns and their sheer scale. Sitting in one a while ago in a hotel car – a BMW 7 series – I was given a demonstration by the driver of the sensor system that detected when the car came too …
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