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Managing virtual project teams
Money & Business

Managing virtual project teams

...analysis of the project definition documentation, for example in a work breakdown structure. Understanding of the work tasks to be completed will be the basis for assigning responsibilities according to competencies. The elements of the tasks can be mapped to project participant roles using a responsibility matrix, also known as a linear assignment matrix. Thus, given the...
How can Facebook decide who you really are?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Facebook decide who you really are?

...data scientist and a grad student at MIT, and, like most people in his demographic, he uses Facebook. But Sands took an unplanned break from the platform this summer when Facebook sent him an automated message formally requesting that he verify his name with the company, or risk having his account suspended. Indeed, Facebook requires people to display their “real”...
Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview
Society, Politics & Law

Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview

...data is so essential to their operations, Binney has a simple answer - power, control and money. Eric King puts to him that the military industrial complex is perhaps not so well established in the UK as the US, so it seems reasonable to ask why GCHQ would be so insistent about the importance of their continuance of bulk communications data collection and retention for...
An introduction to digital simulation in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to digital simulation in healthcare

...Data: Digital simulations are a game-changer! They allow us to capture and replay our performance, so we can review screen recordings, performance metrics, and decision logs for objective feedback. This shifts the conversation from ‘what I think I did’ to ‘what the data shows’, making it more evidence-based and constructive. Establishing Psychological Safety in a...
What do you need to know about Donald Trump's nominee to oversee US banking?
Money & Business

What do you need to know about Donald Trump's nominee to oversee US banking?

...data would be plugged into a simple model, which would spit out the decision the Fed should take. Since the model would be well-known and the relevant economic data (such as GDP, inflation rates, etc.) are already widely publicized, everyone from Wall Street to Main Street who cares about interest rates would be able to predict how the Fed is going to react under such a...
Sniffing out signs of life
Science, Maths & Technology

Sniffing out signs of life

...data for the specific environment or the specific microbe. If we ever do get VOC data from actual space missions, we can make a robust comparison against the data on our baseline. We also want to be sure that any potential evidence of life we detect on the new world comes from that world and not our own. But before we even think about detecting VOCs from other planetary...
Exomoons: astronomers report first ever discovery
Science, Maths & Technology

Exomoons: astronomers report first ever discovery

...data, they found that the planet transit began 77.8 minutes earlier than predicted. This is interpreted as a so-called transit timing variation, caused by an unaccounted for gravitational tug on the planet by an unseen body. The same technique has previously been employed to determine the masses of planets in systems with multiple transiting planets, where each planet...
Exploring Europa
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring Europa

...data these missions will provide. For example, we must understand how ice moves and buckles under extremely low temperatures, how Jupiter’s gravity might squash and squeeze the moon’s interior, and how radiation can change the chemistry of the surface. To allow us to assess the prospects for life in Europa’s ocean, we need to answer questions like: how can we...