Microsoft Research have released over 50 free data sets via their Open Data site. They include 38 million tweets from the 2012 US presidential election Profiles of 1 million celebrities (1000 with images) Are there actually 1 million celebrities now?! Maybe someone can analyze the data to confirm. As in all data science we'll need to start with firming up our definitions of terms---e.g … [Read more...]
Game theory and the Trump dossier
Security expert Bruce Schneier believes that a game-theoretic assessment of whether to release the Trump dossier supports release---regardless of your political affiliation or whether you believe the contents. That's the thing with formal analysis---it clarifies the situation and, sometimes, results in a trivial decision-making process. … [Read more...]
Latin American Leadership and Effective Governance seminar
I gave a talk last month on interactive decision making at a Leadership and Effective Governance seminar run by George Washington University. The seminar is aimed at Latin American politicians and civil servants. My talk covered topics such as stakeholder analysis game theory confrontation analysis The techniques were illustrated by examples of confrontations facing the new government of … [Read more...]
Microsoft speeding up tonight’s Iowa caucus
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...]