air, from a drone firing a missile. So, it's it's a very interesting, uh, incident because, as we know, after collecting testimonies from more than 200 soldiers that fought in Gaza, that a lot a lot of those killings happenedwith drones. So, it looks like what the state of Israel is trying to do over here is to shut this this thing up. So
payment, monitoring, audit and customer service to digital. Um so what does that look like? Uh that looks like actually collecting information in advance. So for example in Togo uh we had um folkswere able to opt in and provide their phone data. Um Togo also has a shockingly high rate of phone ownership
how to take the readings how to service the equipment uh that's something we focus on and then anything where there's an actual collection so whether we're collecting a tree sample whether we're collecting a water sample uh that can go to a real lab with a real scientistthat's what we really aim for with each of these projects almost everything is getting collected digitally using uh
that you can go back a few hundred years and map what's been happening and those few hundred years that we've been around collecting things or ancestors have been around collecting things of course was exactly the moment when Western Civilization started going around theworld and driving a lot of this so it's a I suppose it's a fortunate accident that the same time we started exploiting
So too on water. Collecting data on water is exceedingly difficult.We now have some fairly sophisticated modeling capabilities across 15,000 of the main watersheds
It was kind of the lifeblood of the city they lived in. "Collecting art is romantic, sophisticated, and intelligent purchase. It is a time-honored interest that speaks largely to one's capacity for understanding.
So these are wireless sensors designed like a plastic ruler, and you just essentially stick in different parts of your farming field, and you start collecting detailed information on the soil conditions and ambient environment like temperature and luminosity, et cetera.And it allows, essentially, farmers to optimize the use of water, energy, and labor, while also
And the other one that I thought was quite profound, and has really changed my whole measurement practice, was, spend more time thinking about what the data means than collecting the data. So let me give you an example of one of their recent campaigns.And here's where the animal story comes in.
Winnie talked about. And Jane said, "Well, why don't you just do this full-time? Let's get a research, visual imagery to go along with the long-term data," which they had been collecting at that point for 30 years.So, now we have a thousand hours of research footage of every aspect of chimp behavior.
OpenStudy is a very small group that started a couple years ago that is providing free student study groups online where students who maybe are using OpenCourseWare can ask collecting this data on students and when you have millions of people around the world taking MITx courses, if that's going to be something that you're gonna be looking at
this great trajectory of a a young male who's aesthetically obsessed with something obscure that' be a record collecting or in zek's case this project called the inventory of American unhappiness he's working on um they're obsessed with something aestheticallyand they think they can find sort of Salvation or meaning and love but they
because there's no commonly accepted definition of what an internship is for instance the Bureau of Labor Statistics which is the kind of major body collecting collecting information about uh types of work in America and the nature of work in America uh solidstatistics doesn't track internships uh the statistics even the ones that I the ones that I just cited are are at best
powerful anyway it looks like aarm wrestle anyway um so the idea of collecting clouds I thought I'd just talk about that a little bit it sounds like a sort of stupid idea doesn't itsounds like you know you can't own a cloud you can't buy one you can't put it
If you look closely, you can also see some significant drops like this 1918 dip from the Spanish flu pandemic or over here, what appears to be By collecting better data and analyzing it carefully, there's a good chance that the next generation of researchers could be the ones
And if what you're counting on is some technological silver bullet, you have to imagine that it's going to be-- if it hasn't been invented already, of collecting this bad news-- I still am not as excited to read really depressing, terrifying stories, as I probably should be based on their importance.
And collecting the stories was kind of the easy part, because people wanted to.
been collecting throughout the years and ideas that have been driven through the understanding of how consumer tech is changing the landscape of health care.
been collecting for 20 years, and it was around this idea that often, people who are high achievers-- they may or may not
is collecting patterns statistical patterns and so it's just vision isn't
Stamp collecting clubs, philosophical clubs, artisan groups, debate societies, the first public library, the first fire department.
Magazine collecting or magazines in general in terms of its sales since obviously it's gone digital now?
Wind collecting in the womb is a disorder called the dropsy.
and collecting whatever she can.
But collecting all that data and have it be essentially free isn't something that's been able to be true for all that long, really.
started collecting the rocks and then you can kind of see I'm putting in this
You're just collecting that portfolio perspective.
So by collecting that portfolio of perspectives and then trying them on for size-- just trying it on-- and not holding it up to the standard of,
This is done by collecting pairwise preferences from actual humans out in the world to start.
list and collecting all the data and the information, we went to some angel investors about a week later after doing that and we raised quarter of a million
The traditional methods for collecting intelligence were very difficult. And geographically, it's so far away and so
there by collecting more objects. You can't do that. In fact, if you try to
via this construct of collecting data, writing a confidence interval, computing your p-value, and then seeing if it's less than 0.05.
But by collecting narratives and talking about it and reminding each other, creating cues for ourselves to remind ourselves, oh, that's why I do that, we can manage
So I love collecting games wherever I go around the world, because I'm interested-- you know, what games are universal?
With it collecting family photos from folks, or looking online, any films?
And I also am collecting the lava because I'm going to turn around and throw it into a coffee can, just a metal coffee can full of room-temperature water to hyper
Were you collecting these stories over time?
It's just collecting radio light.
And I started collecting early on.
I was collecting . But you need these things to have balance in life.
So you're not collecting individual data, but you're collecting broader data.
Her family had been collecting books for 200 years.
My current collecting thing are high-end military miniatures, because they remind me of history.
We're making a collecting card game that, at the same time, this talks about the life of Leonardo da Vinci.
CryptoKitties is a card collecting game.
We're collecting essential items.
You're collecting them over time.
I'm not really collecting them that much.
So I end up collecting all this information.
So I started collecting stories of when maths had gone wrong.