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The Knowledge Science working group is focused on exploring the advancement of knowledge science.

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Report from a Crowd Sourcing Event at Woodrow Wilson International Center

Mon, 2012-10-08 17:33 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Janine Rees

      

opengeospatial.org - by Luis Bermudez - September 19, 2012

Last week I attended the workshop “Connecting Grassroots to Government for Disaster Management” at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. This was my first meeting I have attended that was fully dedicated to the discussion of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). Lea Shanley, director of the Commons Lab, brought together top-notch panelists (see agenda) from government, university and industry.

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Movie - Moneyball - Good Illustration for the Value of Data

Sun, 2012-10-07 00:55 — Kathy Gilbeaux

 

imdb.com - Moneyball (2011)

This movie provides a good illustration for the value of data.

Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210166/

Who's Your Spock on the Bridge?

Sun, 2012-10-07 00:42 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Albert Gomez

linkedin.com - by D. J. Patil - October 2, 2012

Tom Davenport and I recently had the opportunity to collaborate on an article in Harvard Business Review on the fast growing role of the data scientist. Not only was it a great honor to work with someone like Tom (whose books were critical for me in helping us think about building the LinkedIn Analytics Team), but it also an opportunity to reflect on how much has changed in the data space in the past couple of years. Those that have benefited the most from the use of data have really taken to heart the difference between talking about data and being ‘data driven’.

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Twitter’s New Lifeline Feature in Japan Helps People Find Relevant Accounts Quickly During Emergencies

Sun, 2012-09-23 21:38 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Janine Rees - by Matthew Panzarino - September 22, 2012

Twitter just launched a very cool feature in Japan called Lifeline. It allows Japanese users of Twitter to use their postal code to find and follow local accounts that are important in emergencies.

These could be accounts that are maintained by city, district or prefecture governments, which will be updating in the event of natural disasters or emergencies. These accounts could also include local media and utility companies that are informing customers about electricity outages or other necessary services.

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Search For Parkinson's Genes Turns To Online Social Networking

Thu, 2012-08-23 17:34 — Maeryn Obley

Submitting a DNA sample to social networking company 23andMe entails spitting a saliva sample into a tube like this and sending it in.Image: Submitting a DNA sample to social networking company 23andMe entails spitting a saliva sample into a tube like this and sending it in.

submitted by Luis Kun

npr.org - August 20th, 2012 - Gretchen Cuda-Kroen

There's a growing interest in what our genes say about our health. And in recent years, quite a few companies have sprung up to help us listen with the help of personalized DNA tests.

For a few hundred dollars and a vial of spit, these companies will search your DNA for sequences that predict your physical traits, your response to certain drugs and your risk for any number of diseases.

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Nokia Knows Where You'll Be 24 Hours From Now

Sat, 2012-08-18 15:16 — Kathy Gilbeaux

wirelessdesignmag.com - businessinsider.com
- by Geoffrey Ingersoll - August 13, 2012

Not only does your phone know where you are, but it knows where you are going to be. It may even know why you're going there.

He calls it the "Interdependence and Predictability of Human Mobility and Social Interactions," but the algorithm researcher Mirco Musolesi and his team recently tested in the UK stirs up thoughts reminiscent of Phillip K. Dick's Minority Report, and all the moral trappings that come with it.

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Mirco Musolesi - Interdependence and Predictability of Human Mobility and Social Interactions (6 page .PDF file)
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~musolesm/papers/mdc12.pdf

FDA’s Mini-Sentinel exceeds 100 million lives (and counting)… A major milestone in developing a nationwide rapid-response electronic medical product safety surveillance program

Mon, 2012-07-09 12:40 — Maeryn Obley

submitted by Daniel R. Matlis

blogs.fda.gov - CDR Melissa Robb - June 29th, 2012

Having secure access to the electronic healthcare data of patients is an essential 21st Century tool for detecting potential safety problems with medical products once they are in common use.

This is because studies conducted prior to approval may not be able to detect rare problems or problems that might emerge following long-term use of a product.

Congress recognized this need for additional information in the FDA Amendments Act (FDAAA) of 2007 when it authorized FDA to develop a nationwide rapid-response electronic surveillance system for monitoring the safety of FDA-regulated medical products such as drugs, vaccines, other biologics, and medical devices.

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Friday’s Storms Raise Questions About Safety of Cloud Computing

Tue, 2012-07-03 22:19 — Kathy Gilbeaux

 

      

The Goldberg family, from left, Oren, Elliette, Hannah, Laurel and their dog, Sophie, wait for Pepco to inspect the power lines outside their Verplanck Place NW home in Washington. A massive tree punctured the house when it fell during the June 29 storm. Several power lines snapped, littering the front lawn. A few are still intact, stretched close to the ground beneath the tree. "Before anything happens, they have to get here. It's not safe," Laurel Goldberg said.
Daniel C. Britt / The Washington Post - July 1, 2012

The Washington Post - by Craig Timberg - July 2, 2012

Storm-related outages at an Amazon data center in Ashburn prompted some congressional officials on Monday to question whether the federal government is moving too swiftly to put important data on private-sector cloud computing servers.

Using Twitter to Share Information After a Disaster

Thu, 2012-05-24 23:36 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Luis Kun

Homeland Security News Wire - May 23, 2012

A study from North Carolina State University shows how people used Twitter following the 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan, highlighting challenges for using the social media tool to share information. The study also indicates that social media have not changed what we communicate so much as how quickly we can disseminate it.

“I wanted to see if Twitter was an effective tool for sharing meaningful information about nuclear risk in the wake of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant,” says Dr. Andrew Binder, an assistant professor of communication at NC State and author of a paper describing the work. “I knew people would be sharing information, but I wanted to see whether it was anecdotal or substantive, and whether users were providing analysis and placing information in context.

“In the bigger picture, I wanted to see whether social media is changing the way we communicate, or if we are communicating the same way using different tools.”

Medicine's Mobile Mania Raises the Threat Level, DHS Warns

Wed, 2012-05-23 01:07 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Luis Kun

gcn.com - by Kevin McCaney - May 16, 2012

Health care facilities are increasingly going wireless, employing smart phones, tablets and other mobile devices to diagnose and treat patients and make medical records easy to get to. It’s a trend that’s not going to slow down, either.

In fact, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is expected May 17 to call for freeing up wireless spectrum to boost another wireless tool, “mobile body area networks,” which allow doctors to remotely monitor patients through the use of sensors and wireless transmissions.

But all that mobile connectivity, along with an array of network-connected devices, comes with risks, particularly since the medical industry isn’t known to be strong on security, as a recent report from the Homeland Security Department points out.

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