Analysis – Page 191

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Researchers analyzing New York Times archives to predict the future

February 4, 2013

Researchers are creating software that analyzes 22 years of New York Times archives, Wikipedia and about 90 other web resources to predict the future.

Microsoft and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers are creating software that analyzes 22 years of New York Times archives, Wikipedia and about 90 other web resources to predict future disease outbreaks, riots and deaths — and hopefully prevent them.

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Micro Credits: A Tool for Self-Organizing the Complex World of Education

February 4, 2013

Futurist Thomas Frey: A recent TEDx talk about solving traffic jams started by asking the simple question, “Who is in charge of the daily bread supply for the city of London?”

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7 important questions to ask when reading medical research

February 2, 2013

Ed Gracely, biostatistics professor, provides seven questions to ask while reading health studies.

One potential roadblock in producing good research is the problems with how researchers measure statistical significance. Laypeople can spot many others much easier.

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U.S. scientists make a breakthrough in tuberculosis

February 2, 2013

Tuberculosis most commonly affects the lungs, is transmitted via the air and caused by strains of mycobacteria.

Worldwide, more than 2 billion people are struck down with tuberculosis (TB). Scientists in the U.S. have made a medical breakthrough that could save hundreds of thousands of lives.

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Obamacare will cost the average American family $20,000 a year: IRS

February 2, 2013

The cheapest plan for family will cost $20,000 per year.

American families will be forced to buy conventional health insurance that primarily benefits the pharmaceutical industry under Obamacare. By 2016 the cheapest health insurance plan available will cost a typical American family $20,000 a year, according to the IRS.

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Coursera – best new startup of 2012

February 2, 2013

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Tech Crunch has picked Coursera as the 2012 Crunchies’ “Best Overall Startup” for 2012. Coursera was chosen because more than anything else our country is heading into a period where higher education and job training is not catching up with the pace of innovation. The creative part of “creative destruction” has not yet kicked in. Coursera has opened up access to proprietary content, over 200 courses from over 33 top international and domestic schools like Stanford and Princeton and is one of the bright points of light pointing towards value and job creation in the creative space.

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Parents need to let their children fail: Study

February 1, 2013

Study shows it’s okay to let children fail.

When Jessica Lahey was a fairly new teacher thirteen years ago she had to call a students’ mother to let her know that she would be initiating disciplinary measures against her daughter for plagiarism and that her daughter would receive a zero for the plagiarism.

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The death of traditional retailers predicted by Marc Andreessen

January 31, 2013

The death of traditional retailers.

Sarah Lacy, founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily spoke with Marc Andreessen yesterday about ShoeDazzle’s rapid decline and subsequent rapid turn-around, She asked Andreessen if he has seen anything quite so dramatic in the startup world.

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Brick-and-mortar retailers succeed in winning back mobile shoppers

January 31, 2013

Traditional retailers are successfully using mobile apps to attract the lion’s share of consumer attention. The retailers’ share of consumer time spent in shopping apps grew to 27 percent of the total in December, up from 15 percent a year prior, according to Flurry.

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Eight brilliant people talk about the future of online education

January 31, 2013

Online education will have an enormous transformative impact on billions of people around the world.

The single most important technological development of the millennium is the advent of massively open online classes (MOOCs). The first reason it is so important is the enormously transformative impact MOOCs can have on literally billions of people in the world. And the second reason is for the equally disruptive effect MOOCs will inevitably have on the global education industry.

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Trust the Process

April 17, 2013

The process of creating art can take less than an hour or go well into extra innings, extending across years as the artist returns to a work that isn’t complete. Da Vinci’s beguiling Mona Lisa was a work in progress when he died.

Raymond Alvarez: Professionals and students alike may wonder what interest an artist/writer has in learning Ruby on Rails. My quick answer is it can’t hurt. The real answer is coming to me.

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Innovative library services “in the wild”: Pew Internet report

January 30, 2013

A new Pew Internet reporttakes a close look not only at how Americans are using public libraries, but also what sort of services and programming they think libraries should offer — and what they say they would use in the future.

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