Ze Big data is coming !
►http://www.technologyreview.com/news/510191/software-predicts-tomorrows-news-by-analyzing-todays-and-yesterday
Predicting the Future By Mining Online News and Other Web Data
Researchers have created software that predicts when and where disease outbreaks might occur based on two decades of New York Times articles and other online data. The research comes from Microsoft and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology...
...The system was built using 22 years of New York Times archives, from 1986 to 2007, but it also draws on data from the Web to learn about what leads up to major news events. “One source we found useful was DBpedia, which is a structured form of the information inside Wikipedia constructed using crowdsourcing,” says Radinsky. “We can understand, or see, the location of the places in the news articles, how much money people earn there, and even information about politics.” Other sources included WordNet, which helps software understand the meaning of words, and OpenCyc, a database of common knowledge....
Ca vous prédit les problème sanitaires, la délinquance à Los Angeles, et puis quoi après... la possibilité que X ou Y accouche d’un enfant futur-drogué ou délinquant ? quand un pauvre va passer à l’acte et tirer dans la foule ? Ca a de l’imagination pour ce genre de soft-contrôle, , on le sait....
Et puis espérons que Microdaube n’a pas oublié de remercier la communauté Open Source.
zanks to @pcInpact
#big_data #minority_report #data_mining #opensource
