“A Remembrall is a tennis ball-sized glass ball that contains smoke that turns red when its owner has forgotten something. It turns clear once whatever was forgotten is remembered.” — Harry Potter Wikia Seems useful, right? Put one of those on the kitchen table, and you’ll never ever forget to put out …
The spreadsheet may very well be the biggest innovation after the personal computer itself. Spreadsheets are used by professionals in virtually all sectors where information is processed, where they are entrusted with anything between shopping lists and billion-dollar, life-or-death decisions support systems. They are used for all sorts of tasks …
This article explores the (potential) impact of big data on policy and policy research. Smart devices generate an ever-increasing volume, variety and velocity of data (so called big data). The expectation is that big data will play a significant role in policy-making processes and policy research. However, to capture the …
How can we take advantage of big data (1) to improve the availability of currently existing global ICT statistics, amd (2) to improve the measurement of the information society? The opportunities for using big data in the context of ICT statistics production are in combining a big data source with a …
Invited talk at the workshop on co-creation, distributed performances and alternative content for the big screen. Organized by i2cat and the Institute of Theatre, Barcelona, 10-11 november 2014. On 10 and 11 November in Barcelona the workshop Cocreation, Distributed Performances And Alternative Content for the Big Screen took place. I presented on …
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Automated bots abuse comment forms to put advertisements on websites. Traditional CAPTCHAs prevent spam by exploiting the fact that computers cannot solve a particular problem easily, and that humans that can solve them are scarce/expensive/slow (but available in the regular use case). Proof of work, by contrast, exploits the fact that …
This study provides insight in the future upload and download bandwidth demand for residential broadband connections, by answering the following research question: How will upload and download bandwidth change between now and 2020? A prospective quantitative model of bandwidth demand was developed in order to answer the research question. The figure below shows …
The 2014 ESS “Big Data in Official Statistics” event, organised in Rome on 31 st March and 1st April 2014, aimed at contributing to the implementation of the Scheveningen Memorandum, by achieving the following objectives: Increasing awareness of the Big Data challenges in the ESS and propose ways to address …
Earlier this year, Dialogic examined the developments in the Dutch telecom market in the period 2014-2018, and the impact that it will have on the market shares of various market players. For this study, Dialogic spoke with a large number of (existing and emerging) market players, end users and experts. …
