Tag: Big data
Disrupting pro-ISIS online ‘ecosystems’ could help thwart real-world terrorism
Neil Johnson, University of Miami
Supporters of the Islamic State, or ISIS, around the world gather online, becoming members of virtual communities in much the...
Big data security problems threaten consumers’ privacy
Jungwoo Ryoo, Pennsylvania State University
As more personal information is collected up by ever-more-powerful computers, giant sets of data – big data – have become...
Machine learning and big data know it wasn’t you who just...
Jungwoo Ryoo, Pennsylvania State University
You’re sitting at home minding your own business when you get a call from your credit card’s fraud detection unit...
Researchers carefully protect dangerous pathogens – but…
Researchers carefully protect dangerous pathogens – but how secure are all their data?
Carole Baskin, Saint Louis University
Ebola, smallpox, anthrax and many others: the most...
Big Data analyses depend on starting with clean data points
Big Data analyses depend on starting with clean data points
H V Jagadish, University of Michigan
Popularly referred to as “Big Data,” mammoth sets of information...
Is big data heading for its ‘horsemeat moment’?
By Duncan Shaw, University of Nottingham
There have been so many leaks, hacks and scares based on misuse or misappropriation of personal data that any...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
