I have always heard, for as long as I remember, that correlation and causality are not the same. That is OK. They are indeed different. But there is always this implication by many, if not the most, people that correlation is second class and causality is the first class. Causality should be respected while one [...]
The last decades have been the decades of disruption. Books (including encyclopedia and newspapers), music, phones, and retails are among those who have already been metamorphosed, thanks to rapid advances in technology, and have to be creative just for survival. Now, people are talking about the transformation of one of the most basic human activities [...]
Twitter became a very powerful medium and its popularity soared rapidly. Twitter became a major News source for the latest events. And it remains a popular site. Many academic researchers are exploring all aspects of twitter ranging from how it is used, how information propagates on it, how can one get information, how can one [...]
We are living in transformative times. Our society is going through a major transformation both at the individual level as well as at the global level. The most important factor in this transformation, the fuel powering this new engine, is the data; particularly the objective data collected using sensors. However, data from only a specific [...]
There was a time, not really long ago, when all information about a person was very subjective. Even self opinions were subjective and other people’s opinion were always way out there. But that was before the information technology revolution. The info tech revolution started changing things. And the last few years have been nothing but [...]