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The history of ESG: A journey towards sustainable investing

IBM Big Data Hub

But while the term ESG was first coined in 2004 by the United Nations Global Compact, the concept has been around for much longer. 2 In 2004, the term “ESG” became official after its first mainstream appearance in a report titled, “Who Cares Wins.”

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Facebook: is it time we all deleted our accounts?

The Guardian Data Protection

And it’s only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to big tech harvesting private information Sorry to break it to you, but you are probably a “dumb f**k”. This is according to statements by a young Mark Zuckerberg anyway.

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The importance of diversity in AI isn’t opinion, it’s math

IBM Big Data Hub

” In an influential study, it was shown that diverse groups of low-ability problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers ( Hong & Page, 2004 ). Simply put, when the diversity in a group is large, the error of the crowd is small — supporting the concept of “the wisdom of the crowd.”

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Eli Manning and the power of AI in ESPN fantasy football

IBM Big Data Hub

When Eli Manning joined the New York Giants back in 2004 as the number one pick in the draft, many Giants fans thought he would be the second coming of Joe Namath: a big star in the big city. Last year alone Watson served up more 34 billion AI-powered insights to ESPN fantasy players. Which brings me back to Eli.

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EDPS Issues Opinion on Coherent Enforcement of Fundamental Rights in the Age of Big Data

Hunton Privacy

On September 23, 2016, the European Data Protection Supervisor (the “EDPS”) released Opinion 8/2016 (the “Opinion”) on the coherent enforcement of fundamental rights in the age of big data. Improve representation of the individual’s interest in big data mergers.

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Part 2: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about the evolution from RIM to Content Services?

ARMA International

Now the Fourth Industrial Revolution [2] is “digitizing the farm”— that is, radically reimagining agriculture through big data analytics that help farmers increase crop yields and using artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor pests, plant diseases, soil nutrients, and other growing conditions. Passengers benefited with low fares.

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2011 Predictions: How Did I Do?

John Battelle's Searchblog

We lost Steve Jobs, stupid Internet legislation reared its ugly head yet again in the form of SOPA, Internet IPOs came back in a big way (but didn’t perform as well as most would have liked), and the world woke up to the implications of programmatic buying and Big Data, in a Very Big Way. 2004 Predictions.