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How lawyers are mining the information mother lode for pricing, practice tips and predictions, by Joe Dysart. ABA Journal, May 1, 2013. “Law firms are using big data to identify which cases will be easy slam dunks and those that are air balls. Theyre relying on the technology to get a read on what other …
How many FICO credit scores do you have? By Janna Herron, Bankrate.com “FICO: It’s the most common credit score used by lenders in existence. But did you know you have more than one? That’s right; the world’s most popular credit score comes in more flavors than Baskin-Robbins offers in ice cream. There are older versions …
Ginkgo: The Life Story of The Oldest Tree on Earth – Revered for its beauty and its longevity, the ginkgo is a living fossil, unchanged for more than 200 million years. Botanist Peter Crane, who has a written what he calls a biography of this unique tree, talks to Yale Environment 360 about the inspiring …
Partnership for Public Service – Most Innovative Agencies – Snapshot 2012. May 2013: “From 2011 to 2012, the government-wide innovation score dropped by 1.7 points to 61.5 out of 100. While the vast majority of employees (91 percent) said they are always looking for ways to do their jobs better, a smaller majority (57.2 percent) …
“When it comes to researching big purchasesfrom smartphones to enterprise softwarethere are plenty of valuable sources online to help. However, the Internet is also full of untrustworthy, biased information cluttered with advertising influence. Instead of making it easier to choose, online information often confuses more than it helps. We created FindTheData to give consumers and …
10 Years Later: Where in the World is Equal Weight Indexing Now?, Liyu Zeng – Standard & Poor’s; Frank Luo, Standard & Poor’s. April 20, 2013. Via SSRN “Often the most powerful investment ideas are simple. The S&P 500 EWI 10 years ago pioneered the simple concept of equal weighted indexing. It has now expanded …
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 17, Issue 4, April 2013, Pages 179193. The neurochemistry of music, Mona Lisa Chanda, Daniel J. Levitin. Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. “Music is used to regulate mood and arousal in everyday life and to promote physical and psychological health and well-being in clinical settings. However, scientific …
“Workplace issues are of great interest to psychologists, since most people spend a third of their adult lives at work. Work defines people in the most basic way, which is one reason retirement is so difficult for many people. For psychologists, other key issues include matching people and jobs, finding ways to reduce workplace stress …
Kenneth Neil Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, May/June 2013- Foreign Affairs “…This kind of data is being put to incredible new uses with the assistance of inexpensive computer memory, powerful processors, smart algorithms, clever software, and math that borrows from basic statistics…Using great volumes of information in this way requires three profound changes in how we …
FCW.com – Frank Konkel: “Less than 24 hours after two explosions killed three people and injured dozens more at the April 15 Boston Marathon, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had compiled 10 terabytes of data in hopes of finding needles in haystacks of information that might lead to the suspects. The tensest part of the …
The changing world of librarians by Lee Rainie, Apr 24, 2013 at DC/SLA Spring Workshop Lee Rainie discussed the Projects latest research about how people use technology and how people use libraries, and the implications of this work for libraries. As librarians, we communicate with our users, staff, C-Level, patrons, and each other every day …
Martin Smith – The Retirement Gamble: “Lets say you sit down with an adviser at your brokerage or bank and ask for some advice on how you should allocate your retirement savings, or which funds you might want to choose for your IRA. Youll get lots of advice, but chances are it wont be worth …
