Category: Digital Health

As the D5 group of digital nations meets in the Estonian capital Tallinn, Kirsty Styles asks whether we're all ready, willing, or able, to go digital. Source: Are you ready to become a digital citizen?

What are the most active cities in India? Which cities get the most sleep in India? Jawbone's data science team has the answer. Source: How We Move and Sleep in India

Smart software controls the prices and products you see when you shop online – and sometimes it can go spectacularly wrong, discovers Chris Baraniuk. Source: BBC - Future - The bad things that happen when algorithms run online shops

In recent years, a growing number of coding boot camps have helped address the large gap between available software engineering positions and qualified candidates to fill them. Coding bootcamps have been so successful that observers have wondered whether these programs are beginning to replace traditional college computer science degrees. For example, Aaron Skonnard, the CEO … Continue reading Coding bootcamps are replacing computer science degrees as most IT professionals didn’t major in CS 

Next-generation architecture tools are now taking a holistic approach to supporting the transformation needs of the organization – holistic in the sense that such tools combine EA, BA, and other planning disciplines including business process management, case management, and decision management into a seamless, business-focused platform. Source: Digital Transformation Depends Upon Next-Generation Architecture Tools - … Continue reading Digital Transformation Depends Upon Next-Generation Semantic Architecture Tools 

A handful of Fortune 500 companies, including General Electric (GE) and MasterCard, have created internal startups to breathe innovation into their products and services. Source: Meet the Innovative Startups Inside Mammoth Companies

Source: How to build the perfect workplace - Fortune

A recent study has found large amounts of plastic particles in table sea salt sold in Chinese supermarkets. Source: Pass The Salt: Microplastics Found In Chinese Sea Salt; Problem Is Much More Widespread Closer To Home

The argument against addressing climate change always has been fundamentally an economic one: We can't afford the needed disruptions to our fossil fuel-driven society. Source: Climate change will be an economic disaster for rich and poor, new study says - LA Times

Source: You'll never believe what neural networks can do now

In species with the largest vocal organs, males have the smallest testicles, suggesting an evolutionary trade-off between winning mates and making sperm Source: Howler monkeys have to choose between big balls and big bawls | New Scientist

Two computer scientists have come up with a way to translate strings of ones and zeroes into poems that double as nearly uncrackable passwords. Source: Why Your New Internet Password Should Be a Poem | Inc.com

Data scientists get big salaries and a decent amount of time off, but social workers have long hours without a paycheck that makes up for it. Source: The Jobs That Offer Great Work-Life Balance (and Some That Don't) - Bloomberg Business

In fascinating study involving synesthesia, people make good guesses at meanings of foreign words Source: Some Rules of Language are Wired in the Brain - Scientific American

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The magical accuracy of search engine results may be the worst thing to happen to democracy since unfettered campaign donations. Source: Google's Search Algorithm Could Steal the Presidency | WIRED

If the system failed, it did so only in the outsize dreams of Big Data acolytes. Source: In Defense of Google Flu Trends - The Atlantic

Source: Modelling human mobility patterns using photographic data shared online | Open Science

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An investment in recreational vehicles or campers is usually a lost cause, but that’s not the case with the retro-chic Road Chief. Source: The Road Chief Is the Ultimate Camper