Today I visited with Ellen Ensel, Anand Vaghese, and Christopher Neu at United States Institute of Peace. Yes, you are reading it right. You have heard a lot about Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security, but never about…
Personal Analytics
Analytics has emerged as a powerful tool to make important decisions in many areas most notably in enterprise decision making. Marketing to strategy to credit risk assessment and fraud analyis, analytics is being used for minimizing risk in decision analysis…
Cameras and Internet
I was pretty impressed by Eye-Fi when first I found it and used. I have been using it. There are two problems with it, but I have continued using it because the advantage is better than the problem. The problems…
ICT for development is dominated by Social Network thinking
IEEE Conference on Technologies for Humanitarian Challenges was an enjoyable conference. I debated before coming here just for this conference, but after a busy full day, I am happy I did. It was very enjoyable and stimulating experience. It was…
Sentiment analysis
NYT has a very enlightening article on Mining the Web for Feelings, not Facts. This article very correctly points out: An emerging field known as sentiment analysis is taking shape around one of the computer world’s unexplored frontiers: translating the…