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Crowdsourced data is not a substitute for real statistics

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Then they used spatial statistical techniques to show that the pattern of aggregated text messages predicted where the damaged buildings were concentrated. It may be that people move away from damaged buildings (perhaps to places where humanitarian assistance is being given) before texting.

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Drivetrain is the “Google Maps for business growth”

TechCrunch

The startup, which calls itself “Google Maps for business growth,” announced today that it has raised $15 million from Elevation Capital, Jungle Ventures and Venture Highway, plus 25 angel investors. Drivetrain is the “Google Maps for business growth” by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch.

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Can Social Network Analysis Help You Improve Your Social Media Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. . Otherwise, you waste a lot of time creating meaningless, but cool maps. When you map your network, it tells you a story.

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Can Social Network Analysis Improve Your Social Media Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. In the book, we talk about the using low tech tools like crayons or post-it notes to map out your network. When you map your network, it tells you a story.

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Multi-layered Mapping of Brain Tissue via Segmentation Guided Contrastive Learning

Google Research AI blog

Li, Research Scientist, and Sven Dorkenwald, Student Researcher, Connectomics at Google Mapping the wiring and firing activity of the human brain is fundamental to deciphering how we think — how we sense the world, learn, decide, remember, and create — as well as what issues can arise in brain disease or dysfunction.

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Analyzing the history of Tableau innovation

Tableau

Christian had earned a Stanford MBA and had done a prior start-up with Chris on automatically generating maps to help people navigate. Tableau’s connectivity history, which is shown with the “connectivity” choice in the innovation category widget , indicates people work with both structured and ad hoc data sources. Multiple tables.

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Information: The Better Half of IT

sgEngage

Your organization’s aggregated or synthesized data is more like a complex carbohydrate that provides fuel for sustained activity. For organizational leaders, deputizing—and supporting—the right person at your organization will return huge dividends in the form of clean, organized, and well-documented data structures.

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