by JAK | Nov 9, 2013 | big data, industry futures, online marketing
So this week after 7 years of business, Twitter finally listed on the NYSE in an IPO. Shares were valued at $26 and only 70m were on offer. Predictably the shares went as high as $50.9 inside the first 2 days and have now dropped back to $44.9 which gives them a...
by JAK | Sep 28, 2013 | big data, big ideas, TED, TEDx, video
One of the meta ideas that I have been thinking about for years now is how great ideas can appear from anywhere and sometimes these ideas overlap because of culture, education and our global mobility. I know many of you who have extensive personal networks in more...
by JAK | Aug 2, 2013 | big data, culture, TEDx, video
Tomorrow is TEDxAuckland 2013 and I will be there with bells on. I love ideas and thinking “across the universe” as I see it. Modern education ( it has been said) forces us to concentrate more and more on less and less and I think we should aim a bit wider...
by JAK | Apr 26, 2013 | big data, big ideas, TED, video
At the 2013 TED conference there was a debate between Prof Robert Gordon and Erik Brynjolfsson (director of the MIT Center for Digital Business) on the future of work. I have written before about Gordons theory but here is a great way to work through some counter...
by JAK | Mar 20, 2013 | big data, industry futures, video
Last October there was a health conference meets big data event in SF called StrataRX. As the intro (below) says it was exploring a future where we can better use technology to manage the explosion of data available from our various health systems....
by JAK | Feb 20, 2013 | big data, big ideas, industry futures
This is a kickstarter campaign by Australian economist Professor Steve Keen. Visual data modelling for economists is what the Minsky tool represents. Essentially this tool makes modelling much easier to understand and so I am all in favour of it and have backed it....
