Comments on: New TED Book: A Haystack Full of Needles

By: Discovery–a new pathway to information « Infopromom

Discovery–a new pathway to information « Infopromom — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:07:22 +0000

[...] just finished reading A Haystack Full of Needles by Jim Hornthal. This work is a TedBooks venture and is pretty short (about 80 pages on my [...]

By: Digging through the clutter of the online world: A Q&A with TED Books author Jim Hornthal | Krantenkoppen Tech

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:20:30 +0000

[...] The latest TED Book deals with an issue we all can relate too: the difficulty of finding answers to complex questions on the Internet when a simple search can lead you down a rabbit hole of impersonal data. In A Haystack Full of Needles: Cutting Through the Clutter of the Online World to Find a Place, Partner or President, Jim Hornthal explores groundbreaking new approaches to discovering the useful insights buried deep within our complex and noisy datasphere. Hornthal, a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, introduces us to innovators who are pushing the edges of data science and data visualization by applying the principles of pattern recognition to isolate relevant signals in the noise. Their efforts will have enormous implications for the way we practice medicine, discover music and movies, and even identify our romantic partners. [...]

By: Nya bokmärken – 2012/10/09 till 2012/10/12

Nya bokmärken – 2012/10/09 till 2012/10/12 — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:11:21 +0000

[...] A Haystack Full of Needles – Den här boken låter riktigt intressant. Om hur internet kan användas för betydligt mer komplicerade svar än de vi kan få från en enkel googling idag. [...]

By: 411egrett0

411egrett0 — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:24:59 +0000

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By: Tim Rueb

Tim Rueb — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:34:20 +0000

Wanted to add the title in my ‘to-read’ list on GoodReads but the book doesn’t show up.