Predictive policing gets personal
Some localities are shying away from predicting who will commit a crime, even though the technology exists, in favor of when and where.
Some localities are shying away from predicting who will commit a crime, even though the technology exists, in favor of when and where.
Data mining experts share stories of failure from the trenches and lessons learned.
Three top-tier businesses are reaping big rewards from big-data analytics. They say the keys to success include a deeply-rooted culture of analytics and a relentless focus on cost efficiency and process improvement.
Whether it's local or from the Web, there are several ways to get data into R for further work.
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IBM's reported interest in selling parts of its x86 server business to Lenovo may bring major changes to the global market.
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Big-name companies including General Electric and Best Western are maturing their social marketing programs and integrating social metrics with back-end systems.
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It was a typically busy year for SAP, with the company making headlines for strong sales of its HANA in-memory database, high-profile acquisitions and aggressive moves into cloud computing.
If there was one lesson for political pundits from last week's presidential election, it was that basic statistical modeling techniques can be used to predict election outcomes with stunning accuracy.
An IBM survey of 2500 international and 129 local CIOs suggests business intelligence and centralisation of IT systems through virtualisation and cloud computing will be crucial to remaining competitive in the coming months.
Some IT leaders look to new offerings that analyze data from corporate blogs, social networks.
In the coming weeks the feds and the surviving financial services institutions will have the daunting task of unraveling all the securitized loans and other instruments that are hiding the toxic investments. But does the technology exist to do that? And if so, could it have been used to prevent the bad debt from hitting the fan in the first place?
By combining business intelligence and two foundations of Web 2.0 -- search and mapping -- a police department in the US state of Kentucky has built a brand-new window into crime. This Web-based BI portal allows patrol officers to enter data -- or even pieces of data such as a few numbers from a license plate -- into a simple search interface and retrieve information from their own databases and those of neighboring towns.