Five steps to master Big Data and predictive analytics in 2014
As recently as the past two years, one of the seminal issues regarding Big Data was storage, especially with respect to the exponential growth and size of unstructured…
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Code Watch: MOOCs’ final grade: Inconclusive
I've recently gone back to college. Well, not exactly, but I have been attending a single class via a massive open online course (MOOC). The course I'm taking…
Why do professors spend their precious time in teaching MOOCs when they are not getting paid for that?
Some universities count Coursera teaching toward regular teaching obligations. In other words, the university pays the teacher to teach on Coursera. Why do this? To officially be a…
Big Data shrinks to grow
What’s next for Big Data? Maybe a little thinning down of the industry and a little more focus, The New York Times reports. In fact, it may be…
Big Data analytics: Descriptive vs. predictive vs. prescriptive
The majority of raw data, particularly big data, doesn't offer a lot of value in its unprocessed state. Of course, by applying the right set of tools, we…
MOOCs: Inflated expectations, early disappointments
Massive open online courses–online platforms offering courses and educational materials to very large numbers of people–captured our imagination in the Fall of 2011 when, unexpectedly, a free online…
Lessons from the CEO of the first ever MOOC
There has been much press for the massive open online courses or MOOCs, including in my series of interviews to date with Sebastian Thrun and Daphne Koller, CEOs…
What changes will Big Data analytics bring?
It’s prediction time again. With all of the certainty that many outlets are predicting for 2014, we decided to look a little farther ahead. Here are some predictions…
Dropout redemption: Online courses can increase college graduation rates
This Saturday, I will graduate from the University of South Dakota, nearly 16 years since I started there. I’d dropped out in 2001 because of a missing calculus…
Saudi MOOC startup wants to ‘disrupt’ Arab education
While technology has allowed us to do more things and do them better, a gap still remains between the potential of technology and its actual utilization to improve…