Big Data on Campus

A nytimes.com article examines the how big data is being used by higher learning institutions to shape how students choose courses and classes. It sounded a bit too Orwellian for my taste. It is worth reading as a futuristic look into how big data and analytics shape our choices. Click here for the link.

I came across an academic paper written a couple of years back. It uses machine learning algorithms to analyse consumer credit risk and predict the probability of default. This paper has come from MIT Sloan School of Management. The learning I take away from it are the possibilities that are opened up by practical application of tools used in big data analytics to broad issues like credit risk that have a bearing on the economy at large. Click here for the link.

A real time application of a tracking tool

Check out this article in forbes.com on how search results are used to evaluate how well a candidate knows what s/he claims to be a core skill. There is a long ways to go before this becomes a general application tool, but it is sufficient to get one's imagination fired up about the possibilities it holds.

IT knows you

Here is an article from the nytimes.com on how IT knows you

A general white paper on big data from DataStax. Go here

Here is an online book that could help with those learning to forecast using R.

R is an important open source tool to analytics. Here is a link to R tutorials from a blog that recently came to my attention!