Data Civilisation

It’s interesting to see how the UK government is taking cyber security more seriously through larger investments in training!

“This is according to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by political think tank Parliament Street, which found the Cabinet Office lavished £274,142.85 on cybersecurity training for staff in the 2020/21 financial year, with courses including ""The Art of Hacking"", ""Digital Forensics Fundamentals"", and ""Ethical Hacking.""
Compared to the £47,018 forked out on similar courses in the previous year, that’s a whopping 483 per cent increase in spending.”

https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/29/cabinet_office_cybersecurity_training/

UK Cabinet Office's spending on cybersecurity training rises by 500% in a year No indication any of it went on preventing theft of CCTV footage, though, eh Matt?

The current processing power available might let us map the entire universe through artificial intelligence!

“Partnered with Nvidia which brings to the table 6,159 of its Nvidia A100 Tensor Core graphics processing units, capable of rendering quintillion floating-point operations per second, according to Nvidia specialised for artificial intelligence, data analytics, and HPC (High-performance computing) perfect for the mighty task Perlmutter is set to execute.”

https://aidaily.co.uk/articles/the-supercomputer-set-to-shake-the-science-we-know

The Supercomputer Set to Shake the Science We Know — AI Daily - Artificial Intelligence News The claimed world’s fastest artificial intelligent supercomputer has just launched, named Perlmutter after astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter, at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) in California with a challenging first task by applying its artificial intelligence to crea...

AI-Based Study Designed To Identify Ovarian Cancer Risk in Women

“The University of South Australia will lead a world-first study, using artificial intelligence, to map the risks of the most fatal reproductive cancer in women worldwide so it can be detected and treated earlier.

Internationally-renowned nutritional epidemiologist Professor Elina Hypponen and a team from UniSA's Australian Centre for Precision Health have been awarded $1.2 million by the Federal Government to map the genetic and physical risks of ovarian cancer, based on the health records of 273,000 women from the UK Biobank database…”

https://www.technologynetworks.com/cancer-research/news/ai-based-study-designed-to-identify-ovarian-cancer-risk-in-women-350388

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AI-Based Study Designed To Identify Ovarian Cancer Risk in Women A machine learning model will be used in a study to map the risks of ovarian cancer in women worldwide so it can be detected and treated earlier.

Data shows most popular mobile game genres in UK and USA

“Have you been spending excessive time occupied in games online? Do you think it is a result of the deprivation caused by the pandemic? A study conducted by a data analysis site, YouGov, earlier this year disclosed the expected continuation of online gaming, even after Covid-19.

The global pandemic has brought many dynamic changes to industries everywhere, especially targeting the online gaming sector. Gaming companies worldwide have noticed a surge in the engagement of gamers as the pandemic drives them to opt for online activities.…”

https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2021/06/data-shows-most-popular-mobile-game.html #

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Data shows most popular mobile game genres in UK and USA The most popular games are surprisingly puzzles and breakout ones such as Escape room and Tetris.

The Big Idea: can a smartphone game help monitor depression?

“Emilia Molimpakis was working as a scientist at University College London, researching how language analysis can be used to detect mental health conditions like depression, when her close friend and a fellow academic found herself struggling with symptoms of the illness…”

https://sifted.eu/articles/thymia-depression/

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The Big Idea: can a smartphone game help monitor depression? | Sifted Could smartphone video games help to monitor and treat people with depression? That's what one company, Thymia, is working on.

Jakubczak ’23 Working on Data Analysis for Pfizer

“These days, the name “Pfizer” brings to mind images of syringes and vaccine cards. But the pharmaceutical giant is concerned with far more than COVID-19 — just ask Ben Jakubczak ’23, who will be working remotely for Pfizer this summer. Jakubczak’s position will be as a research assistant, analyzing data on spontaneous blindness in Wistar Han rats in order to aid future toxicology studies.…”

https://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/data-analysis-pfizer-wistar-han-rat-blindness

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Jakubczak ’23 Working on Data Analysis for Pfizer These days, the name “Pfizer” brings to mind images of syringes and vaccine cards. But the pharmaceutical giant is concerned with far more than COVID-19 — just ask Ben Jakubczak ’23, who will be working remotely for Pfizer this summer. Jakubczak’s positio

NEED TO PERFORM FINANCIAL DATA ANALYSIS? WHY PYTHON IS YOUR BEST TOOL!

“Exploratory data analysis (EDA) is an important part of every data scientist’s workflow. EDA allows data scientists to summarize the most important characteristics of the data they’re working with. In the case of financial data analysis, this includes generating simple summary statistics such as standard deviation in returns and average returns, visualizing relationships between stocks through correlation heatmaps, generating stock price time series plots, boxplots, and more…”

https://builtin.com/data-science/financial-data-analysis

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Need to Perform Financial Data Analysis? Why Python Is Your Best Tool. Python offers a wide array of tools to access, analyze and pull insights from financial data. Here’s how to get started.

"There are a lot of questions and uncertainty surrounding data protection. Highlighting the imperfections is the basis for implementing future improvements.

“Expressing frustration with this state of affairs, Caspar pointed to a backlog of 28 cases against big tech firms in Ireland as a central sign of GDPR dysfunction. He sees infighting among privacy commissioners as a central reason for delayed decisions and eventual disappointing fines, with the door being opened to this by rules that have vague wording and leave too much room for interpretation.”

https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-protection/outgoing-privacy-commissioner-calls-gdpr-broken-says-that-basic-model-cant-work/


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Outgoing Privacy Commissioner Calls GDPR "Broken," Says That Basic Model "Can't Work" - CPO Magazine After 12 years at the head of the Hamburg data protection commission, Johannes Caspar is stepping down. The privacy commissioner returns to academia disillusioned with the GDPR, calling it "broken" and lamenting infighting.

"Microsoft is implementing AI techniques to help software developers by suggesting code. Making for a much smoother and streamlined experience!

“Researchers at Microsoft and other institutions have been trying to teach computers to write code for decades. The concept has yet to go mainstream, at times because programs to write programs have not been versatile enough. The GitHub Copilot effort is a notable attempt in the field, relying as it does on a large volume of code in many programming languages and vast Azure cloud computing power.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/29/microsoft-github-copilot-ai-offers-coding-suggestions.html


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Microsoft and OpenAI have a new A.I. tool that will give coding suggestions to software developers For decades researchers have tried to get programs to write programs. Microsoft and OpenAI are drawing on vast cloud computing power and extensive source code.

Application of data goes beyond the corporate world. Innovation mixed with machine learning techniques can potentially save lives!

“Cleary’s team aimed to develop more robust forecasting techniques based on the data gathered by heat sensors – which are often installed alongside smoke alarms in modern US homes. While these devices tend to fail above 150 °C, the team believes that prior to failure, data from the sensors can be used to measure temperature trends in rooms and track the distribution of heat throughout a building. From this information, machine learning algorithms could predict when and where flashovers will occur.”

https://physicsworld.com/a/machine-learning-could-save-firefighters-from-deadly-flashovers/

Machine learning could save firefighters from deadly flashovers – Physics World System uses data from heat sensors to predict when fires will intensify

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙗𝙞𝙜 𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙖: 5 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 2020-2025

How does the future of the world of data analytics affect your career and your company? It is a fast-moving industry, including cloud computing, machine learning, job demand, privacy, and actionable data.

""The world is powered by big data now forcing companies to seek experts in data analytics, capable to harness complex data processing. But will it be the same in the future? In this article, you will find experts’ opinions and five predictions on the future of big data""

https://www.itransition.com/blog/the-future-of-big-data

The future of big data: 5 predictions from experts for 2020-2025 Find out five predictions on the future of big data in the 2020s and its influence on consumers and businesses worldwide, according to experts.

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With Celonis being one of the biggest process mining software providers in the industry, it is no surprise how rapidly the company is growing. Having the ability to connect to ERP systems such as SAP and Oracle easily and having a user-friendly back end and front end UI, Celonis has all the ingredients to be a market leader in process mining.

This article highlights Celonis' significant growth.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2021/06/02/celonis-process-mining-raises-at-11-billion-valuation/?sh=105cabb62acd

Celonis Raises $1 Billion At $11 Billion Valuation, Making It New York’s —And Germany’s — Most Valuable Startup Celonis has raised $1 billion from investors led by Durable Capital Partners and T. Rowe Price, valuing the maker of process mining software at $11 billion, ahead of any other private tech startups in its headquarters locations of Germany and New York.