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Coronavirus, Facebook: "Ecco la mappa di chi presenta i sintomi". E mercoledì arriva in Italia

Coronavirus, Facebook: “Ecco la mappa di chi presenta i sintomi”. E mercoledì arriva in Italia

UNA MAPPA che cambia in tempo reale. Oggi degli Stati Uniti, domani del resto del mondo. Serve per capire chi ha sintomi da Coronavirus, prima che vada in ospedale. Facebook mostra i risultati del sondaggio fatto su larga scala negli Stati Uniti e annunciato due settimane fa. Dopo i dati sulla mobilità forniti anche da Google ed Apple, ora il social network fondato da Mark Zuckerbergtenta di…

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Emmanuel (Manu) Letouze is the Director and co-Founder of Data-Pop Alliance, a coalition on Big Data development co-created in 2013 by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, MIT Media Lab, and Overseas Development Institute. Letouze’ research and work focuses on Big Data’s application and implications in areas including poverty and inequality, crime, climate change, human rights, and economic and ecological fragility. His mission in launching Data-Pop has been to help foster what he refers to as a “People-Centered Big Data Revolution.”

Another Side Of Big Data: Big Data For Social Good

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Today at Mobile World Congress, the GSMA launched the “Big Data for Social Good” initiative, which will leverage mobile operators’ big data capabilities to address humanitarian crises, including epidemics and natural disasters.

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How Does Alcohol Cause Cancer?

http://blog.dana-farber.org/insight/2016/03/how-does-alcohol-cause-cancer/

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Check out this Q & A with our master’s student Erin Grand, who recently landed a part-time job as a data scientist at Crisis Text Line.