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UCL Big Data

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@ucl Big Data Institute: Promoting the development of new #datascience theory & algorithms to make sense of #bigdata. Led by Sofia Olhede.

 London, England
ucl.ac.uk/big-data/bdi
Joined November 2014
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Machine learning and big data are poised to transform astronomy. bit.ly/2HpOqee
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Panel on “future of legal practice” Reena Sengupta explaining about the innovate lawyers program #fairalgorithms at @thelawsociety event @solhede
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Today’s the day! We are having a Legal Services Summit with the @TheLawSociety ... I’ll be tweeting from @SOlhede if you want more coverage!
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At #FairAlgorithms with @TheLawSociety listening to fascinating panels... I will be tweeting as @SOlhede later on today!
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Privacy and AI nytimes.com/2019/04/03/techn…
A.I. and Privacy Concerns Get White House to Embrace Global Cooperation (Published 2019)

A.I. and Privacy Concerns Get White House to Embrace Global Cooperation (Published 2019)

In technology, the Trump administration has departed from its anti-regulatory, nationalist approach.

nytimes.com
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Digital humanities and ... chronicle.com/article/Dear-H…
Dear Humanists: Fear Not the Digital Revolution

Dear Humanists: Fear Not the Digital Revolution

Advances in computing will benefit traditional scholarship — not compete with it.

chronicle.com
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Social media and national security nytimes.com/2019/03/28/us/po…
Grindr Is Owned by a Chinese Firm, and the U.S. Is Trying to Force It to Sell (Published 2019)

Grindr Is Owned by a Chinese Firm, and the U.S. Is Trying to Force It to Sell (Published 2019)

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States is forcing a Chinese company to sell its stake in Grindr, a gay dating app, over national security concerns.

nytimes.com
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and from NYTimes nytimes.com/2019/03/27/techn…
And the winner is... bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47…
British-Canadian AI expert Geoffrey Hinton wins Turing Award

British-Canadian AI expert Geoffrey Hinton wins Turing Award

Geoffrey Hinton shares this year's award with two other leading figures in artificial intelligence.

bbc.co.uk
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ai flying drones... nytimes.com/2019/03/26/techn… kind of cool
A.I. Is Flying Drones (Very, Very Slowly) (Published 2019)

A.I. Is Flying Drones (Very, Very Slowly) (Published 2019)

Artificial intelligence has bested top players in chess, Go and even StarCraft. But can it fly a drone faster than a pro racer? More than $1 million is on the line to find out.

nytimes.com
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Ai in court? well Estonia thinks so wired.com/story/can-ai-be-fa…
Can AI Be a Fair Judge in Court? Estonia Thinks So

Can AI Be a Fair Judge in Court? Estonia Thinks So

Estonia plans to use an artificial intelligence program to decide some small-claims cases, part of a push to make government services smarter.

wired.com
McDonalds and AI? Yikes! bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…

Watch McDonald's Is Entering Into AI - Bloomberg

McDonald’s is buying Israeli tech company @DynamicYield, which means you could soon be ordering from a customized digital menu board (Source: TicToc)

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google and its robotics programme nytimes.com/2019/03/26/techn…
Inside Google’s Rebooted Robotics Program (Published 2019)

Inside Google’s Rebooted Robotics Program (Published 2019)

In 2013, the company started an ambitious, flashy effort to create robots. Now, its goals are more modest, but the technology is subtly more advanced.

nytimes.com
More on bias and targeted ads nytimes.com/2019/03/19/techn…
Facebook Halts Ad Targeting Cited in Bias Complaints (Published 2019)

Facebook Halts Ad Targeting Cited in Bias Complaints (Published 2019)

The social media giant will stop allowing advertising of housing, jobs or credit to be aimed at those of a certain race, gender or age group.

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Op-ed about social media nytimes.com/2019/03/19/opini…

Opinion | The Case for Investigating Facebook (Published 2019)

Why I am calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Facebook for violating antitrust laws.

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Math for data science artificialintelligence-news.…
Job market for machine learning artificialintelligence-news.…
More on the Cambridge Analytica story from last year nytimes.com/2019/03/15/techn…
Academic Behind Cambridge Analytica Data Mining Sues Facebook for Defamation (Published 2019)

Academic Behind Cambridge Analytica Data Mining Sues Facebook for Defamation (Published 2019)

Aleksandr Kogan, a former psychology professor, said Facebook defamed him when it claimed he lied about how the data was going to be used.

nytimes.com
Superheat: An R Package for Beautiful Heatmaps amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/f… Very nice paper. But the key cognitive question - does it help people understand the data? - is not addressed. Cognitive research such as that of Susan Joslyn (summarized in ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2844…) can help
Superheat: An R Package for Creating Beautiful and Extendable Heatmaps for Visualizing Complex Data

Superheat: An R Package for Creating Beautiful and Extendable Heatmaps for Visualizing Complex Data

The technological advancements of the modern era have enabled the collection of huge amounts of data in science and beyond. Extracting useful information from such massive datasets is an ongoing ch...

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Automation from over the pond youtube.com/watch?v=_h1ooyyF…
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