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Starting with Maths
Science, Maths & Technology

Starting with Maths

...data helps them understanding what's going on with the Sussex River Ouse. Student views on the OU OU students talking about the benefits to them of studying with the OU Finding space and time for studying OU students talking about how they found the space and time to study, and what has kept them motivated. The tutor experience OU Students talking about the experiences...
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...
Exploring evidence-based policing
Money & Business

Exploring evidence-based policing

...data and be more readily quantified this might seem like common sense, but these same approaches have also emerged in a wide range of other fields. This includes areas such as management and education where evidence is often less quantitative – that is to say, reliant on numbers and numeric data – but instead more qualitative and is based more on opinions, impressions...
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Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing
Education & Development

Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing

...data to rigorous, systematic analysis reveals contexts and influences to which as a professional she was completely oblivious. Kathy illustrates well the value of looking at the everyday familiar with fresh academic eyes. One thing that happens to a number of professional doctorates is that their sense of who they are changes. They assume a new identity. Dr Aubrey-Smith...
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...