McGurk effect – you actually hear only what you see or want to hear!

Doing data mining for other companies, have helped the data mining companies in many ways besides the services that they offer. In some cases, they have made several new businesses. There are two examples that are mentioned in “Big Data – A revolution” by Victor Mayer-Schoneberger and Kenneth Cukier In Amazon early days, Amazon made…

Perceptions or assessments of behavior can be difficult to quantify. When attempt is made to quantify specific actions that are perceptions then a scale is used to measure the behavior on a scale such as a Likert scale with values on a 1-5 scale. One such assessment could be an assessment of pain in which…

It is easy to see mathematics when you look at common things that we take for granted. For example the following pages were created from a website: http://ptaff.ca/soleil/?lang=en_CA. The raw data can also be got from the link below. Take a look at these graphs and think about what can you see. Steven Strogatz saw…

Big data exists in different forms. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has worked to digitize the entire mouse brain. Each of the different regions of the brain can be seen and visualized. The data is estimated to be about 500 Terabytes but the fantastic thing is that it is available for anyone to see and download….

Databases a simple definition: Database is a collection of data that is managed as a single unit. There are Six major types or models of databases: Flat file databases: These were databases that managed all the data in one flat file. The file was just a list of items. There were several ways that this…