Strange fate for a “privately run and closely held” company.
Or maybe not…
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” Companies lack the capacity to intelligently analyze the data and they lack the systems and data structures to provide the usable data even though such data exists.”
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“But Kenexa, which tested 30 million applicants last year for thousands of clients, has found that a lengthy commute raises the risk of attrition in call-center and fast-food jobs. It asks applicants for call-center and fast-food jobs to describe their commute by picking options ranging from “less than 10 minutes” to “more than 45 minutes.” The longer the commute, the lower their recommendation score for these jobs, says Jeff Weekley, who oversees the assessments.”So they needed to analyze a ton of data to figure out that even the people who (have to) accept relatively low skilled/payed jobs are rational enough to use every opportunity to shorten their commute?!?
Well done, guys!
Read the entire post, Tim Ackermann does a good job at sorting out the current myth about ‘Big Data’.
While preparing some presentations for HR and recruitment peers I researched and re-thought the trends (aka buzzwords :-)) which are currently discussed in the HR and online community. I will add my thoughts over the next weeks (hopefully not months) and start with Big Data. Also thanks to @carllsons who included this topic in his presentation at the Social Media in HR Summit a few weeks ago.
Generally speaking, Big Data is…
… a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools. The challenges include capture, curation, storage, search, sharing, analysis, and visualization. The trend to larger data sets is due to the additional information derivable from analysis of a single large set of related data, as compared to separate smaller sets with the same total amount of data, allowing correlations to be found to “spot business trends, determine…
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” În opinia mea, analiza suferă prin aceea că ia poate prea mult în serios puterea independentă a ideilor în societate.”
Bineinteles ca ideile in sine nu au nici o putere pana cand nu capata ‘tractiune sociala’ iar asta se intampla tocmai atunci cand din ce in ce mai multi oameni observa care dintre ideile ‘propuse’ se potrivesc mai bine realitatilor sociale ale momentului.
Numai ca alternativa – credinta unora ca stiu ei, sigur, care sunt ideile potrivite unui anumit context social – este cel putin la fel de mioapa ca si credinta in ‘puterea independenta a ideilor in societate’. De fapt ambele sunt cele doua fete ale unei aceleiasi monezi, cea batuta de Platon cu ocazia introducerii pe scena a ‘Regelui Filozof’ cel atoatestiutor.
Iar toata chestia imi aduce aminte cat de nedumeriti erau specialistii in Kremlinologie in 1989, atunci cand s-a prabusit comunismul fara ca ei sa bage de seama.
Pe situl Centrului de Analiză a Informațiilor și Evaluare a Tendințelor (CAIET) a apărut recent o analiză comparativă care caută să aplice ceea ce am putea învăța din ascensiunea fulminantă a Syriza la realitățile românești. Textul nu este un „caiet al revoluționarului” ci o privire din afară care caută să vadă în ce măsură o mișcare similară ar putea apărea și la noi.
Cu intenție – sau poate fără – documentul pornește de la un cadru conceptual prin care ni se propune să analizăm realitatea pe trei nivele. Eu le numesc:
acțiune (engl. agency) – ceea ce fac actorii politici. Autorii numesc asta „voință politică”.
context/circumstanțe (engl. contingency) adică … circumstanțele care înconjoară acțiunea. Autorii numesc asta „circumstanțe favorizante” deși, la o adică, ele pot fi și defavorizante sau simplificatoare sau aducătoare de complicații.
sistem (engl. structure) adică structura realității pe termen mai lung. Autorii numesc…
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The most horrible thing about this poster is that it contributes to the fallacy that having five cars and a huge mansion will necessarily make you happy.
The way I see it the ‘war on inequality’ is following in the steps of the ‘war on drugs’ and the ‘war on terror’.
Fighting symptoms never cures the ailment, at most it provides temporary relief until the patient’s death, pun intended.
What we need is something to hope for, to believe in.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-addicti_b_6506936.html
Misogyny and misandry are equivalent scourges.
I fail to see any difference between ‘kill all men’ and “beat her savagely, laughing as he licks the tears from her crying eyes.”
Murdered feminist activist Grace Mann
Last month, police say, University of Mary Washington student and feminist/LGBT activist Grace Mann was murdered — bound and asphyxiated by a male housemate and fellow student.
An antifeminist blogger is blaming her death on feminist jokes about misandry.
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Why read ‘philosophy’?
To better understand what’s going on around us, to find out what the ‘great minds’ had to say about the world in general or to be able to make ‘intelligent conversation’ in certain circles?
Why share our thoughts?
To measure them against what others have to say about the same subjects or as a ‘desperate attempt’ to change the world? (Supposedly for the better, of course! But then again, better for whom? Better than what?
And what do you mean by ‘better’, anyway?
The folks over at Answers in Genesis recently tackled the question, “When exactly was the Flood?”. After consulting his Bible and with a little help from Bishop James Ussher, David Wright of AiG provides the answer:
Using the Bible, well-documented historical events, and some math, we find that the Flood began approximately 4,359 years ago in the year 1656 AM [anno mundi] or 2348 BC.
So there you have it. Only 8 people left alive on the planet in 2348 BC.
That got me thinking. What other “well-documented historical events” might have been going on in the 24th century BC? Let’s take a look …
Mesopotamia
It must have come as a real shock to Noah and his children when, in 2334 BC – only 14 years after the flood – Sargon the Great began establishing the powerful Akkadian empire. This task involved defeating in battle a variety…
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