Insight. Applied.
Microsoft Research have released over 50 free data sets via their Open Data site. They include
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 “celebrity”.
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.
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
The techniques were illustrated by examples of confrontations facing the new government of Argentina. I built an online immersive briefing describing the confrontational landscape facing President Mauricio Macri and his team.
However, given the pan-American immigration debate fueled by Donald Trump, much of this was applied work was (unsurprisingly) overshadowed by impromptu discussion and analysis of Brexit.
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.