With an avalanche of 2.5 quintillion bytes of data generated daily, could this be used to change our lives and does it have a darker side?
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Can big data save lives?
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Pod: Jay Bilas on Ware’s injury and how this Final Four came to form - CBSSports.com
There’s still a lot to discuss, and we lead with Kevin Ware injury before talking Louisville, Wichita State, Indiana, Syracuse, Marquette, KU, Florida and of course Michigan. We’ve got a five-day wait until the final games begin, so hopefully this helps with you hoops fix before the apex arrives.
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Bill James | 2013 SABR Analytics Conference
Last weekend in Phoenix, the Society for American Baseball Research hosted the second annual SABR Analytics Conference. I helped out a little (here and here), but the real star power was provided…
http://www.baseballnation.com/2013/3/11/4088270/bill-james-sabr-analytics-conference-sabermetrics
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FanGraphs Audio: Dave Cameron Analyzes Baseball, Entirely | FanGraphs Baseball
Daily baseball statistical analysis and commentary.
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/fangraphs-audio-dave-cameron-analyzes-baseball-entirely/
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More or Less: Behind the Stats — The Parable of the Ox
What does a ‘guess the weight of the ox’ competition tells us about a bloated and dysfunctional financial system? We find out in the Parable of the Ox written by John Kay of the Financial Times. The tale is told with the help of economics writer James Surowiecki as well as John Kay himself. It also features a brand new composition from the New Radiophonic Workshop.
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‘Signal’ And ‘Noise’: Prediction As Art And Science : NPR
Statistical analyst Nate Silver says humility is key to making accurate predictions. Silver, who writes the New York Times’ FiveThirtyEight blog, has just written a new book called The Signal and the Noise.
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/10/162594751/signal-and-noise-prediction-as-art-and-science
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On Point: Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning
A.I., artificial intelligence, has had a big run in Hollywood. The computer Hal in Kubrick’s “2001” was fiendishly smart. And plenty of robots and server farms beyond HAL. Real life A.I. has had a tougher launch over the decades. But slowly, gradually, it has certainly crept into our lives.
Think of all the “smart” stuff around you. Now an explosion in Big Data is driving new advances in “deep learning” by computers. And there’s a new wave of excitement.
Guests: Yann LeCun, professor of Computer Science, Neural Science, and Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University.
Peter Norvig, director of research at Google Inc.
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FanGraphs Audio: Craig Robinson of Flip Flop Fly Ball | FanGraphs Baseball
Daily baseball statistical analysis and commentary.
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/fangraphs-audio-craig-robinson-of-flip-flop-fly-ball-2/
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FanGraphs Audio: Clay Buchholz, Clayton Mortensen | FanGraphs Baseball
Daily baseball statistical analysis and commentary.
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/fangraphs-audio-clay-buchholz-clayton-mortensen/
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Interview with Daniel Kahneman
Tim Harford interviews Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics. The author of Thinking, Fast and Slow describes the common mistakes people make with statistics.
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