AvatarCraig FredericksScientists show that gene editing can 'turn off' human diseasesverified_publisherEngadget - Jon FingasScientists have shown that a new gene editing technique could erase one or more diseases. Gene editing has already been used to fight diseases, but there's now hope that it might eliminate the diseases altogether. Researchers have shown that it's possible to eliminate facial muscular dystrophy using …
AvatarCraig FredericksDataPad emerges to let everyone at your company create and play with chartsverified_publisherVentureBeat - Jordan NovetDataPad emerged from stealth mode today and plans to demonstrate its cloud-based software for visualizing data at the Innovation Showdown competition at VentureBeat’s DataBeat conference in San Francisco. The startup also revealed a $1.7 million round of seed funding that will help it invest in …
AvatarCraig FredericksSpurious Correlations finds the hidden, totally pointless connections between everythingverified_publisherThe Verge - Adi RobertsonSpurious Correlations is the virtual embodiment of a useful rhetorical cudgel: correlation does not equal causation. Sift through its data sets, and you'll find all sorts of statistics that can be mapped onto each other — margarine consumption and the divorce rate, crude oil imports and number of …
AvatarCraig FredericksTrifacta gives data wranglers a secret weapon for saving timeverified_publisherVentureBeat - Jordan NovetOK, so you’ve launched a Hadoop cluster to store and process lots of different kinds of data. Good luck cleaning up your messiest unstructured data before you can dig up all of those amazing business-changing insights you’ve heard about. Typically, data cleaning, or data transformation, takes up …
AvatarCraig FredericksFive Key Properties of Interactive Data VisualizationForbes - Ben KerschbergAccording to renowned AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories statistician John Tukey, “data may not contain the answer. The coordination of some data and an aching desire for an answer will not ensure that a reasonable one can be extracted from a given body of data.” While Tukey (1915-2000) is correct in …
AvatarCraig FredericksAlpine brings data science to the masses (interview)verified_publisherVentureBeat - Eric BlattbergHandling big data shouldn’t be difficult, according to Alpine Data Labs. In fact, the company wants to make dealing with big data drag-and-drop easy. The startup relies on the language of the mouse and wants to help everyone inside an enterprise harness the power of advanced analytics and data …
