Digital Transformation
Smartphones are much more than just mobile PCs. More then 20 sensors continuously track our behavior and our environment. With this rich data, we can tell the story of people’s lives. And we don’t have to rely solely on questionnaires like we did in the times of classic social research.
Talk at the Satellite Masters Conference of the European Space Agency ESA, Berlin October 23rd
(in German)
Seminar for journalists on the application of data science:
– generating data
– storage/retrieval
– analysis
– visualization
Focus on open data, easy hacking methods with ipython notebooks.
Sponsored by SAS Institute:
“SAS Data Day”
(See a summery here at the site http://quantifiedself.com)
At the Quantified Self Europe Conference 2014, which took place on May 10th and 11th, we hosted a session to discuss philosophical, and especially ethical aspects of self-tracking. Here are our slides with comments:
And here is the summary of the session on quantifiedself.com.
Expert hearing on the revision of the state’s media legislation –
Anhörung des Landtags Nordrhein-Westfalen zur Neufassung des Landesmediengesetzes:
(My expertise in German)
“The future is already there, it is just not evenly distributed” as William Gibson said.
At re:publica 2014 conference in Berlin we will demonstrate methods and tools to make good predictions and foresighting from sources found on the Net.
“With Big Data comes the end of the pundit” – foresight, predicting the future from the present, has always been the realm of obscure trend researchers, strategy planners, intelligence services or the RAND Corporation.
To get to useful insights about the changes in society, politics, culture, or technology, we do no longer have to rely on the esoteric, propriatory knowledge of individual researchers or institutes. We can harvest the tremendous treasure that lies at hands in the Internet.
In our session we will demostrate at real cases how to derive patterns and trends from sources like Twitter, Google Books or Google Correlate without heavy programming skills; we will search blogs with self-made crawlers, we will demonstrate how to find and visualize Twitter networks, and how to get information on people’s behavior using meta-data (just like the NSA does according to Snowden …)
Come to our session:
re:publica conference
Wednesday, May 7th at 12:30pm
stage B
Link to the re:publica-site:
re:publica 2014: Open Foresight