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Blockchain Meetup 1: Ethereum 101 – Trustless, decentralized, smart contracts
Dr. Christian Reitwiessner (https://mobile.twitter.com/ethchris), Team Lead Ethereum and co-designer and lead implementor of Solidity, will introduce us to Ethereum. He'll be talking about smart contracts, blockchain basics and the Ethereum Virtual Machine. We will...
My AlgorithmicMe: Our representation in data
Talk at Strata + Hadoop World Conference 2016, San Jose, Ca. Today, algorithms predict our preferences, interests, and even future actions—recommendation engines, search, and advertising targeting are the most common applications. With data collected on mobile devices...
Let’s discuss all things Ethereum at our Ethereum Munich Meetup
More and more Big Data projects we with Datarella are involved in demand not only administrative or legal security layers but also state-of-the-art technical frameworks to provide the maximum security there is for business as well as petsonal data. To provide our...
The Need For Encryption
With this post we do something quite unusual: we re-publish Apple's letter to their customers. It's not that we were such Apple fans that we would join the company's marketing efforts but the encryption of iPhones has been discussed for a long time. And this week,...
New Product Development in the Age of IoT
If you're responsible for new product development in your company, you will be familiar with the several steps of that process. Experts mostly separate the new product development process into seven or eight steps, starting with idea generation and finishing with a...
What you can expect from Datarella in 2016
We always take a little time in the very first days of a year to define Datarella's main goals for this year. This time it was a pleasant task since 2015 went very well for Datarella: we achieved most of our goals and we could start without any legacy issues. So, what...
If it’s smart, you can wear it!
It started with the first smart clothes in 2006, motivated luxury brands like TAG Heuer of LVMH to add some smartness to their watches and even lets farmers recognize patterns in dairy cow movements: wearables have become mainstream. At our Wearable Data Hack this...
Know And Speak To Your Customer Through The IoT
Equipped with sensors and microchips, ever more of objects can communicate, with each other and with human beings - the Internet of Things and Humans is born. Even washing powder is set to become smart through attached sensors on its packaging that detects when the...
Predictive modeling – an interview with Datarella CEO Joerg Blumtritt
Most of the time, we at Datarella deal with the very near future: what will be the most likely thing that individuals want or what they are up to next? We use mathematical models to predict human behavior. But not only human behavior is what Datarella is interested...
Breaking Bad Habits with Self-Tracking
For the forth time, the Quantified Self Conference took place in Amsterdam. Quantified Self is a way to get "self knowledge through numbers" as the two founders Kevin Kelly and Gerry Wolf put it, learning about one's life by measuring various aspects of our bodily...
Algorithm ethics: The inevitable subjective judgements in analytics
Here is the video of the talk on subjectivity and ethics in data science methods, that Majken Sander and I gave at Strata+Hadoop World Conference 2015 in London (Courtesy O'Reilly Media, Inc.). The Strata + Hadoop World 2015 in London Complete Video Compilation is...
Wearable Data Hack 2015 – Official Announcement
Wearable Data Hack 2015 - Official Announcement Munich, 19 June 2015 - On the weekend of June, 19-21, Stylight, Datarella and Macromedia University proudly present the first hack day on wearable tech applications, data and design - the Wearable Data Hack 2015. the...