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Microsoft Research Open Data

July 13, 2018 By editor

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 “celebrity”.

Filed Under: Data science, Machine learning Tagged With: celebrities, data sets, free, Microsoft, open, politics, tweets

Game theory and the Trump dossier

January 17, 2017 By editor

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.

Filed Under: Confrontation analysis, Decision science Tagged With: game theory, politics, Trump

Latin American Leadership and Effective Governance seminar

August 8, 2016 By editor

Leadership and Effective Governance seminar poster

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 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.

Filed Under: Confrontation analysis, Decision science Tagged With: Argentina, politics

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.

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

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