Category: demographics

Hitting the Books: America needs a new public data system

Post author By Randall
Post date July 25, 2020
Categories In democratizing our data, demographics, feature, hitting the books, hittingthebooks, julia lane, mit press, nyu, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] MIT Press Excerpted from Democratizing Our Data: A Manifesto by Julia Lane. Reprinted with permission from The MIT PRESS. Copyright 2020. On sale as an ebook now. On sale in print 9/1/2020. Nowadays when people have an appointment to go to across town, their calendar app obligingly predicts how long it’s going to take […]

Facebook used its AI smarts to build detailed disease prevention maps

Post author By Randall
Post date May 20, 2019
Categories In Ai, Artificial Intelligence, artificialintelligence, demographics, Facebook, gear, Internet, location data, location tracking, locationdata, locationtracking, mapping, maps, medicine, movement, population, Tech

[ad_1] These maps, Facebook suggests, could help health organizations better determine how to handle outbreaks or distribute supplies because they’ll provide insights on where people live and move and whether they are connected. Groups such as the American Red Cross are already using them to determine areas in which people are concentrated and coordinate health […]