Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) can use sophisticated Sociological and Psychological (Socio-Psycho) factors in order to positively identify Key Opinion Leaders (KOL). This animated presentation demonstrates just how it can be applied to one of the most opaque places on earth: The White… Read More ›
Tools
FIELD NOTE: Answering One of the Most Asked Question of Data Scientists
Gregory Piatetsky and Shashank Lyer have begun to answer one of the most asked question facing data science practitioners: Which tools work with which other tools? If I had a dollar for every time this question was asked of me,… Read More ›
Art of Resistance – The Social Network Anatomy of a Kinetic Activist Group
As a data scientist that works in the intelligence community, we are often asked to help identify where intelligence gathering and analysis resources should be allocated. Governmental and non-governmental intelligence organizations are bounded by both limited operational funds, as well… Read More ›
Deep Web Intelligence Platform: 6 Plus Capabilities Necessary for Finding Signals in the Noise
Over the last several months I have been involved with developing uniques data science capabilities for the intelligence community, ones specifically based on exploiting insights derived from the open source intelligence (OSINT) found in the deep web. The deep web is… Read More ›
Mahout: Machine Learning For Enterprise Data Science
The success of companies to effectively monetize their information is dependent on how efficiently they can identify revelations in their data sources. While Enterprise Data Science (EDS) is one of the necessary methodologies needed to organically and systematically achieve this… Read More ›
Heilmeier Catechism: Nine Questions To Develop A Meaningful Data Science Project
As director of ARPA in the 1970’s, George H. Heilmeier developed a set of questions that he expected every proposal for a new research program to answer. No exceptions. He referred to them as the “Heilmeier Catechism” and are now… Read More ›
Visualizing the CRAN: The Right Package for a Given Task
R is an extremely useful software environment for statistical computing and graphics. But as awesome as it is, it can be quite daunting to find just the right package for a specific task. Well, CRAN Task Views is designed to help… Read More ›