Topic
Big Data
415 published works
The Right Coast
How Hillary’s Campaign Is (Almost Certainly) Using Big Data – Scientific American Blog Network
Analytics will win votes this year. Science, as it did in 2012, is playing an important role for mass voter persuasion in the U.S. presidential race. It s a numbers…
Technology and AI
FCA publishes feedback statement on big data call for input
The FCA has published a feedback statement following its call for input on big data in retail general insurance. The FCA announced in November 2015 that it wanted to better…
Global Media and Communications Watch
Pulse: How Data Will Define Dealmaking for a Generation
With EY's confirmation that growth in big data deals is running at an annual rate close to 30% coming hot on the heels of Microsoft’s $26 billion purchase of LinkedIn,…
Law Practice Tips
Big Data, Little Data: It’s All Useful Data
By Jim Calloway
We hear a lot about big data these days. But what about our "little data?" By that I mean the routine information that we discard because we have never thought…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Quantifying Criminal Procedure: How to Unlock the Potential of Big Data in Our Criminal Justice System”
Main August 29, 2016"Quantifying Criminal Procedure: How to Unlock the Potential of Big Data in Our Criminal Justice System"The title of this post is the title of this notable new…
Legal Ethics Forum
A legal ethics agenda for big data analytics
I offer a legal ethics agenda for big data analytics here, published yesterday by Bloomberg Law.
Food Safety News
IAFP 2016 — Big data analytics on epidemics could help prevent outbreaks
By Dan Flynn
[caption id="attachment_129798" align="alignright" width="406"] Nathan Wolfe, founder of Metabiota Inc.[/caption] After today, it won’t be a secret anymore. Nathan Wolfe, whose been called the Indiana Jones of virology and who…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“The Criminal Justice Black Box”
Main June 28, 2016"The Criminal Justice Black Box"The title of this post is the title of this notable new paper authored by Samuel Wiseman and now available via SSRN. Here…
Re:Marks on Trademark and Copyright
RETAILER TRENDS IN-STORE BIG DATA ANALYTICS
By DLA Piper
By Carol A.F. Umhoefer Gone are the days when the CCTV outside the dressing room was only there to dissuade - or help prosecute - shoplifters. Bricks-and-mortar retailers are increasingly…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
“That’s Unfair! Or Is It? Big Data, Discrimination and the FTC’s Unfairness Authority”
The title of this post comes from this recent paper by Professor Dennis Hirsch, the abstract of which states: Big data and data analytics (“big data”) can produce many social…