Unfortunately, I suspect this would
work some small percentage every time...
"Many Aussies across New South
Wales and South Australia had a bit of a shock this morning when they
received an SMS threatening
them with assassination. Although somewhat varied, the messages
have typically read, 'Someone paid me to kill you. If you want me to
spare you, I'll give you two days to pay $5000. If you inform the
police or anybody, you will die, I am monitoring you', and signed
with the e-mail address killerking247@yahoo.com.
Police and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission have
warned that the messages are almost certainly fake, and that no
dialogue should be entered into with scammers."
I hope "almost certainly" is
droll understatement.
Always looking for cautionary tales for
my Statistics students.
Lies,
Damn Lies, And Statistics About Privacy Hysteria
We've only been providing public power
for what, 150 years? About time we stopped guessing and started
analyzing.
July 22, 2012
Big
Data, Bigger Opportunities: Plans and Preparedness for the Data
Deluge
News
release: "Smart grid deployments are creating exponentially
more data for utilities and giving them access to information they’ve
never had before. Accessing, analyzing, managing, and delivering
this information – to optimize business operations and enhance
customer relationships – is proving to be a daunting task.
Somewhere in this data deluge lies the path to greater efficiencies,
but how will access to this new data change the way utilities drive
their businesses? Will predictive analytics spur operational change?
Oracle recently surveyed 151 North American senior-level executives
at utilities with smart meter programs in place and gauged their
perceptions on the business impact of “big data,” preparedness to
handle data growth, and plans to extract optimal business value from
this data to better target, engage with and serve customers. The
"Big Data, Bigger Opportunities" report is the first in
Oracle's “Utility Transformations” series, which will
examine how utilities use information generated from smart grid
deployments to drive greater organizational efficiency, more reliable
service, and stronger customer relationships."
(Related)
July 22, 2012
From
Overload to Impact: An Industry Scorecard on Big Data Business
Challenges
"IT powers today’s enterprises,
which is particularly true for the world’s most data-intensive
industries. Organizations in these highly specialized industries
increasingly require focused IT solutions, including those developed
specifically for their industry, to meet their most pressing business
challenges, manage and extract insight from ever-growing data
volumes, improve customer service, and, most importantly, capitalize
on new business opportunities. The need for better data management
is all too acute, but how are enterprises doing? Oracle surveyed
333 C-level executives from U.S. and Canadian enterprises spanning 11
industries to determine the pain points they face regarding managing
the deluge of data coming into their organizations and how well they
are able to use information to drive profit and growth.
- 94% of C-level executives say their organization is collecting and managing more business information today than two years ago, by an average of 86% more
- 29% of executives give their organization a “D” or “F” in preparedness to manage the data deluge
- 93% of executives believe their organization is losing revenue – on average, 14% annually – as a result of not being able to fully leverage the information they collect.
- Nearly all surveyed (97%) say their organization must make a change to improve information optimization over the next two years.
- Industry-specific applications are an important part of the mix – 77% of organizations surveyed use them today to run their enterprises…and they are looking for more tailored options."
For my Students. Intros to many online
tools including Facebook and Linkedin...
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of Tools
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