Tag: social media

Facial recognition: leading to a safer or unsafer world?

As the name implies, this technology is capable of identifying a person from an image or video by comparing facial features such as shape and size of the eyes, nose and mouth as well as the distance between each other, within a database. This system, might have seemed part of a sci-fi movie 50 years… Read more Facial recognition: leading to a safer or unsafer world?

True or False.

Last week, our guest speaker Craig Martell spoke of how AI is exaggerated in movies and is highly unlikely to come in the form of the Terminator or Skynet taking over control of your vehicle and driving it off the road. In reality, AI is just advanced statistics, using algorithms like logistic regression and xgboost… Read more True or False.

Big Data and Filter Bubbles

Personalized searches have a lot of benefits – obviously, search engines who have figured out better algorithms attract more users (for example, Google versus Bing or Yahoo!) because they allow the searcher to find what is most relevant to them, what they are most likely searching for, more easily and efficiently. Social networking sites like… Read more Big Data and Filter Bubbles

The transparent society in the era of Big Data

“Big Data is about much more than just correlating database tables and creating pattern recognition algorithms. It’s about money and power.”[7] While talking about the benefits of Big Data and Analytics in the field of manufacturing and other businesses to improve processes or even predict and prevent certain events, a lot of data produced nowadays… Read more The transparent society in the era of Big Data

Social Networks and Employment – A Valid Data Point for Recruitment Today?

Introduction From the earliest carrier pigeon systems to contemporary telecommunication channels, humans have always looked for innovative ways to speak to one another. In this pursuit, we have erased geographical boundaries and made communication virtually instantaneous. This is possible due to the creation of social media tools which let us engage in “social networking”. Online… Read more Social Networks and Employment – A Valid Data Point for Recruitment Today?