Prof Alun Preece

#CM3107 week 4 lecture slides are now on Learning Central.

#CM3107 slides from today's feedback session are now on LC.

#CM3107 week 2 lecture slides are now on Learning Central.

#CM3107 week 1 lecture slides are now on Learning Central. Related reading links for week 1 are at delicious.com/alunpreece/cm3…

“@IBMResearch: 60-year-old technology offers a solution to the modern Big Data problem - The Economist econ.st/Idn7Ta #bigdata”

“Designing better offices: people are more creative when they have privacy and no interruption: f-st.co/Q6OrPTb via @FastCoDesign”

Week 8 slides etc are now on learning central.

@GeorgeTweeted Makes sense - you can use any structure you want, just make it obvious for me which Qs you're addressing where.

“@danbri: Ok, here's a SPARQL endpoint populated with the definitions from schema.org; dydra.com/danbri/schema-… - handy :)”

“@jahendler: Schema.org dataset-based data search at datasets.schema-labs.appspot.com interesting step forward for #opendata and #opengov”

Week 7 lecture slides now on learning central. Remember: there are no Thursday lectures this week.

“@realpoirot: Building next generation Knowledge Management (kminaction.wordpress.com/2013/10/31/bui…) < info in documents is too cumbersome for Gen Y”

"Tech companies take as much space as old economy firms—they just use it differently" Google's new London office: qz.com/139794/inside-…

Please note that handbooks.data.cardiff.ac.uk/module/CM3107.… is currently incorrect - it gives the exam date as Spring when it should be JANUARY.

The details of the information architecture exercise for Thursday afternoon has now been added to the Week 5 Learning Materials section.

First set of Week 5 lecture slides & links are now on LC. Plus, the coursework submission page should now be active - let me know if not!

Tacit & explicit knowledge at work! "Big Data at Work in the Great Bazaar of Istanbul – No Coding Required" scn.sap.com/community/busi…

“@naval: One lesson from Microsoft is that fast-follower strategy is easy on your own platform, but hard against other platforms.”