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Best Ways to Integrate Big Data into Your Business

Smart Data Collective

Nowadays, information consumption is skyrocketing. This information, dubbed Big Data, has grown too large and complex for typical data processing methods. Companies want to use Big Data to improve customer service, increase profit, cut expenses, and upgrade existing processes. The influence of Big Data on business is enormous. Where does big data come from?

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A Byrd’s Eye View of Self-Care: Sometimes It’s Okay—And, Actually Necessary—To Be “Selfish” and “Lazy”

The New Social Worker

Why isn’t it okay for me to take a few minutes out of my day and focus solely on myself? Or, be completely disinclined to exert myself for one hour? Why am I expected to be excessively or exclusively concerned with others and constantly in motion?

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Tips for Interpreting and Using Box Plots for Data Analysis

Smart Data Collective

We have previously written about the benefits of data visualization, including its advantages with content marketing. We felt we were overdue for another article on this topic, so we wanted to talk about a particular type of technology that can be beneficial – box plots. Data visualization techniques like the box plot are instrumental in modern data analysis.

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New threat to Antarctic fur seals

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Populations of charismatic animals have recovered since hunting ban but now struggle to find enough food.

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Chronic pain may increase dementia risk: Here are five Frontiers articles you won’t want to miss

Frontiers

by Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com At Frontiers, we bring some of the world’s best research to a global audience. But with tens of thousands of articles published each year, it’s impossible to cover all of them. Here are just five amazing papers you may have missed. Chronic pain associated with increased dementia risk Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) make up approximately 80% of the more than 47 million cases of dementia worldwide.

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Extinct ape gets a facelift, 12 million years later

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A new study has reconstructed the well-preserved but damaged skull of a great ape species that lived about 12 million years ago. The species, Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, may be crucial to understanding great ape and human evolution.

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How to tell if your boss is a 'corporate psychopath'

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

New research considers how the financial industry can identify, manage and, if necessary, remove these individuals.

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