We are starting a 2012 Top 5 Post Countdown featuring BrightPlanet’s most popular Deep Web University content from 2012. Let’s start with top post #5: Deep Web Harvest Engines vs. Web Harvest Engines – Finding Intel in a Growing Internet. This post from November 16 explains the differences between using popular search engines, like Google, […]
As you follow the coverage of Big Data, you can often find articles about Big Data and health. The articles are about everything from data being a potential cure for cancer to whether Big Data can make us happy. We collected a few of the articles talking about Big Data and health we have tweeted […]
Currently, most research institutions rely on free monitoring services (Google Alerts) or subscription database services (LexisNexis) for online research. According to an article in Modern Healthcare, physician medical researchers on average earn anywhere between $160,000 to $300,000. With this much money being invested in research, it is detrimental to have these professionals using methods of […]
In our latest whitepaper we dive into how healthcare research can harness Big Data available on the Deep Web to create efficiency and improve collaboration. The whitepaper includes: What information is available on the Deep Web for healthcare research How the information is currently collected The solutions available for improving Big Data collection and analysis […]
We’ve collected some good reads and visuals on the use of social media in law enforcement. Why Citizen Demand More Social Media in Law Enforcement – Mashable Solving Crime with Social Media – BackgroundCheck.org NYPD to boost gang unit over social media violence – Yahoo! News 2012 International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Social […]
Everyone and their mom knows how to “Google” stuff. The search engine long ago became a verb meaning the act of instantly finding answers on the Internet. Type your keyword in the search box (this technique doesn’t work as well) and BOOM! Millions of answers at your fingertips. People across the business, government, and healthcare […]
In the days leading up to and following the election, there have been many articles about the role of Big Data in the election. Here are just a few: How Big Data Could Determine the Winner of Today’s Election – Huffington Post Inside the Secret World of the Data Crunchers Who Helped Obama Win – […]
As with every presidential election, reporters, media and analysts try to predict who will be the next commander-in-chief. With the use of our Social Media Monitor and Deep Web Harvester, we also joined in the political forecast by monitoring and analyzing tweets that were sent before, during and after each of the three presidential debates. […]
Tomorrow is election day and we have compiled the Twitter data we collected with our Social Media Monitor and Deep Web Harvester in the swing states of Iowa and Ohio from the three debates. See which candidate was most talked about before, during and after the debates and who was most talked about overall in […]
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and a recent CNN article published these stats from the American Cancer Society. “According to the latest data from the American Cancer Society, death rates from breast cancer among U.S. women have gone down 2.2% each year between 1990 and 2007, with larger declines among women younger than 50. […]