Chris Morris elected to BDA Board

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Although the term Big Data has become popular, there is no general consensus about what it really means. Often, many professional data analysts would imply the process of Extraction, Transformation and Load (ETL) for large datasets as the connotation of Big Data. A popular description of Big Data is based on three attributes of data: volume, velocity, and variety (or 3Vs). Nevertheless, it does...

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Segal Democratically elected aristocracies

The article suggests a formalmodel of a two-tier voting procedure,which unlike traditional voting systems does not presuppose that every vote counts the same. In deciding a particular issue voters are called in the first round to assign categories of their fellow-citizens with differential voting power (or weights) according to the special position or concern individuals are perceived to have w...

Democratically Elected Aristocracies

The article suggests a formal model of a two-tier voting procedure, which unlike traditional voting systems does not presuppose that every vote counts the same. In deciding a particular issue voters are called in the first round to assign categories of their fellow-citizens with differential voting power (or weights) according to the special position or concern individuals are perceived as havi...