Amazon plans to sell companies a way to detect when staff are not wearing face masks or socially distancing. Beyond the pandemic, the system could also be used to track compliance of other workplace rules or to monitor the public – for example, to check the number of customers queuing in a store. It involves… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Business Analytics
The Brutal Fight to Mine Your Data and Sell It to Your Boss
HiQ is a “people analytics” firm that creates software tools for corporate human resources departments. Its Skill Mapper graphically represents the credentials and abilities of a workforce; its Keeper service identifies when employees are at risk of leaving for another job. Both draw the overwhelming majority of their data from a single trove: the material that is… Read more »
Why PwC Created an App to Build the Workforce of the Future, Today
Society is on the verge of a new industrial revolution – upending business, commerce, culture and nearly every other aspect of human life. Driving this revolution is the fusion of digital technology with the physical and biological worlds. Disruption is now a way of life that we all need to get use to. Organizations like… Read more »
Tableau links to AWS
If you’re like many Tableau customers, you have large buckets of data stored in Amazon S3. You might need to access this data frequently and store it in a consistent, highly structured format. If so, you can provision it to a data warehouse like Amazon Redshift. You might also want to explore this S3 data… Read more »
Uber to share data to help ease city congestion
Uber is launching a website outlining how its cars move around cities, in an effort to appease city authorities who have long called for more data sharing. It will provide data on dozens of cities from next month. Uber’s transportation data could help cities to improve traffic flow. The controversial app-based taxi service had previously… Read more »
Changing Minds Where It Mattered
MARK ZUCKERBERG, CEO and founder of Facebook is trying hard to convince everyone that Facebook had no nefarious role in the 2016 US Presidential election. But according to President-elect Donald Trump’s digital director Brad Parscale, the social media giant was massively influential—not because it was tipping the scales with fake news, but because it helped generate the… Read more »
Facebook’s Race-Targeted Ads Aren’t as Racist As You Think
IN LATE OCTOBER ProPublica released a scathing investigation showing how Facebook allows digital advertisers to narrow their target audience based on ethnic affinities like “African-American” or “Hispanic.” The report suggested that Facebook may be in violation of federal civil rights statutes and drew parallels to Jim Crow Era “whites only” housing ads. Source: Wired Magazine Date: November… Read more »
Using heat mapping to see where people are
This technology allows someone to accurately map where, and for how long, a person is. Source: CNN Date: August 25th, 2016 Link to video: http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2016/08/15/shopping-tracking-technology.cnnmoney Discussion 1) Where else might this sort of technology be really useful? 2) If you were buying this technology for your company, what sorts of concerns might you have?
Can social media predict the future?
In a global population of over seven billion people, more than two billion of us use social media. It’s estimated that each day we send out over 300 million tweets and share 4.75 billion pieces of content on Facebook. By liking a new Hollywood blockbuster here or tweeting about a visit to a restaurant there,… Read more »
Can DNA become the future of digital storage? Microsoft is betting on it
Not only is DNA remarkably effective at retrieving and copying data, it’s extremely efficient in scale. It’s estimated that a diploid cell in the human contains about 1.5 gigabytes of information, which it can store and retrieve with frightening accuracy. At 1.5GB per cell, the cells in your hand could provide a storage medium bigger… Read more »
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