DATA MINING

Embracing the Police Force of the Future By Ger Daly - Article Courtesy of: CNN STORY HIGHLIGHTS Police forces around the world are fighting crime with new data-mining tools San Diego's streetcars have video analytics that can spot suspicious behavior Major crime in Memphis fell 30% with software to predict where crimes might take place Next on the horizon for law enforcement: biometrics, including facial recognition (CNN) -- Contrary to the Hollywood image in movies like "Minority Report," technology hasn't served law enforcement particularly well over the years. Fragmented and complex operating systems have challenged police officers to manually enter information into multiple … [Read more...]

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Facebook & Big Data Collide

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Big Data Could Cripple Facebook Article Courtesy of: TechCrunch & JON EVANS So there’s this startup called SmogFarm, which does big-data sentiment analysis, “pulse of the planet” stuff. I spotted them last year, and now they’ve got an actual product with an actual business model up and running in private beta: KredStreet, “The Social Stock Trader Rankings,” which performs sentiment analysis on StockTwits data and a sampling of the Twitter firehose to determine traders’ overall bullish/bearish feeling. They also compare reality against past sentiment to score and rank traders based on their accuracy, which is more interesting. It’s a first iteration, but it looks pretty nifty, and I like … [Read more...]