*That's a strange and rather hair-raising way to frame it.
*How hard would it be to scan yourself with a handheld and get a Google Big Social Data analytic diagnosis? And what happens when guys without college degrees know more about what you're doing that you do? Not just a little more, or from a different perspective, but big huge number-crunching gobs more.
*Forwarded on behalf of the UC Berkeley School of Information*
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Open Lecture at the School of Information
Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Time: 2-4 pm
Place: 202 South Hall, UC Berkeley
"Big Data Social Analytics in Health, Healthcare, Learning, and Education"
Dr. Ashwin Ram
Innovation Fellow and Area manager for Socio-Cognitive Computing, PARC
(((Not like these PARC guys have ever changed the world before or anything)))
"With the advent of open education resources, social networking
technologies and new pedagogies for online and blended learning, we are
in the early stages of a significant disruption in current models of
education.
"'Learning' is beginning to peel away from 'Education' as a
separate market, with its own set of opportunities and challenges for
practitioners, technologists, and entrepreneurs. While 'education' is
driven by schools, colleges, and governments, 'learning' focuses on
empowering the individual to take charge of their learning. (((Uh,
education isn't a "market." Governments aren't markets, either.)))
"Interestingly, a similar phenomenon is occurring in healthcare, fueled
by the confluence of similar trends and technologies: open health
resources, social networking technologies and new methodologies for
consumer engagement. 'Health' is starting to emerge as a separate and
disruptive market, (((uh, health isn't a market)))
with its own opportunities and challenges. While
'healthcare' is driven by providers, payers, and governments, 'health'
focuses on empowering the consumer to take charge of their health and
wellness. (((Great. I'm feeling peckish, so let's have a few kilos
of cocaine; cocaine really is a "market.")))
"In this talk, I will discuss recent trends in these two industries,
explain why they are analogous, (((yeah, probably they are, which is scary)))
and discuss opportunities for user
experience, big data, analytics and social capital research. I will
provide examples of social, mobile, and game technologies that are
creating the disruption, and highlight key research challenges that are
yet to be addressed.
Bio
Dr. Ashwin Ram is Innovation Fellow & Area Manager of socio-cognitive
computing at PARC, and director of PARC's healthcare program. Prior to
joining PARC, he was Associate Professor in the College of Computing
at Georgia Tech and director of the Cognitive Computing Lab. He is a
co-founder of OpenStudy.com which is an online social learning network
for students and faculty.
He received his PhD from Yale University in 1989, his MS from University
of Illinois in 1984, and his BTech from IIT Delhi in 1982. He has
published 2 books and over 100 scientific articles in international
forums. In addition to OpenStudy, he is a founder of Enkia Corporation
(recently acquired by Sentiment360) which develops AI software
for social media applications.
