Day: September 24, 2012

American Idol and Twitter teach us about Elections — active information

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In the strange but true category…

“A paper in EPJ Data Science asserts that analysis of social networking data can be used to accurately predict societal events, such as election outcomes. The authors reached this conclusion by studying Twitter activity related to the 11th season of American Idol.”

I wrote about the study in my latest active information post: Can American Idol and Twitter teach us about Elect… – Input Output.

The Architect’s Transformation: From Master Technician to Business Strategist

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We are now well into the fourth era of information technology evolution. Along the way IT professionals have been challenged to evolve their skills to keep pace with advancing technology as well as evolving business expectations. Here is my skills view of the architect’s transformation:  Mastery – For the first 25 years of business computing, […]

Pre-Requirement Estimation for IT Projects

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Objectives and requirements – they are what makes the project world go ’round. Changing a business’ operations for the better requires one to decide what are the objective of the change, and what are the requirements a change must meet to satisfy the objective. Implementing the change usually starts with someone needing to know what […]