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Adults struggle to solve puzzle kids solve with ease

February 5, 2016 By editor

https://youtu.be/9nUARk6aFE4?t=1 A National Geographic puzzle (described below) that 80% of children can solve flummoxes most adults. As we get older we develop a whole range of skills that allow us to operate more efficiently. The problem is that these optimizations result in blind spots and lowering of creativity. Now, don't get me wrong---the tradeoff is worthwhile. You really don't want a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Decision science Tagged With: bias, creativity

Microsoft speeding up tonight’s Iowa caucus

February 1, 2016 By editor

Microsoft is providing technology for tonight's Iowa caucus that should facilitate [the] accuracy and efficiency of the reporting process It also gives the company, which is seeing strong grow in its cloud services, to showcase its cloud and mobile offerings in a high stakes setting. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Big data Tagged With: cloud, Microsoft, politics

Doug Cutting on the future of Hadoop

February 1, 2016 By editor

Data Informed have published interview with Doug Cutting on the future of Hadoop. He makes a number of observations. On MapReduce... MapReduce is on its way to being legacy. On important Hadoop developments... I think Kudu is very exciting; a new storage engine that offers a lot of low-latency, random-access capabilities that HDFS doesn't while still permitting the fast analytics that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Big data Tagged With: Hadoop

Worst passwords of 2015

January 30, 2016 By editor

SplashData, a purveyor of password managers, has produced its annual list of the year's worst passwords. The top ten are 123456 password 12345 12345678 qwerty 123456789 1234 baseball dragon football I guess we should all be shocked at how poor these passwords are. However, there's no breakdown of which sites these passwords came from. If they are all from bank accounts then, yes---OMG! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Behavioral economics, Data science

Don’t trust the polls

January 28, 2016 By editor

2016 is the year of the US presidential election. Prepare to be besieged by polls. The embarrassment of the 2015 UK parliamentary election predictions is a distant memory. We get to start over. However, Mona Chalabi reminds us, via the Guardian's Datablog, of the challenges facing pollsters. She lists five: The media are fallible. They follow fashion and make the news. Journalists are fallible. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data science Tagged With: polling

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