I Love it When You Call Me Big Da-ta
I am dying to know: how many of you caught that ever so subtle Biggie Smalls reference? Not that I’m a super huge fan of 90’s hip-hop; but, how can you not like Biggie? In any event, this was the…
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Big Data – Consumers or Consumed?
Big data is here and the question is whether we will consume it, or it will consume us? Likely, the answer will be a bit of both. The dystopian view of our big data future is somewhere between those imagined…
… but Boss YOU HAVE to send me to Hawaii.
I was watching a movie, which you would have not expected to have anything poignant to say, when one of characters said “It’s hard to fill a cup that is already full”. This concept of course is not new but…
World University Rankings: Number Crunchers
Following the release of the latest Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, there is always a lot of news reporting and analysis regarding the results and what they mean for higher education on a regional and global scale. A look at…
Special Delivery
Ever order something online, and packaging arrives damaged / torn / opened by the NSA / leaking / broken / or abused??? Just imagine the inside of major sorting package facility, miles of conveyor belts, robots, forklifts, boxes colliding with…
Developing an Industry of Research around the Research Industry
I understand that many couples, when they are thinking about starting a family, become acutely aware of children all around them. Perhaps it is also true that many sponsored research offices, when they are asked to justify the benefits of…
SRA 2014 is next week in San Diego!
Don’t forget to download the conference app at sra2014app.org. We hope many of you will be attending this great annual learning and networking event and that you’ll stop by our booth to say ‘Hi’. The SRA2014 conference app is a…
Dubious Value in Describing all Financial Interests as Dubious
An article in our capital region newspaper noted information on area doctors and researchers who have received payments associated with pharmaceutical companies and device manufacturers, which is now available publicly, similar to other potential conflict of interest reporting. The article…
Being Human and Considering the Role of Human Trials
The use of an experimental drug to treat a handful of health care and ministry workers infected with the Ebola virus may have attracted more press attention than the outbreak itself. One interesting aspect of this coverage is the platform…
When is a Giraffe merely a Giraffe?
University Research & Economic Growth I recently ran across an article that stopped me in my tracks with this statement: A United Nations report on Asian higher education has questioned the widely held belief among policymakers that investment in university research…