00
Natural Gas is growing steadily as a viable source of energy across North America, and continued research and development initiatives are generating further investment from stakeholders across the continent. Natural gas burns cleaner than coal and the explosion in unconventional gas reserves in the United States means that we could have approximately a centuries worth… Read more »
Join the Praescient Analytics Headquarters office in collecting for the U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots drive this holiday season! We will be collecting toys in Praescient’s lobby starting Monday, November 18th and running through Monday, December 16th. Monetary donations are also accepted online HERE. Please drop off your donation of a new, unwrapped toy for a… Read more »
This blog post is a joint effort between Praescient Analytics and one of our premier technology partners, Recorded Future. In a previous post, we discussed how advanced open source collection and analysis tools can be used to explore the resonance of protests in open source media. Digging a little deeper, using Recorded Future’s cutting edge… Read more »
This post was written by Alis Wang The rise of Big Data is helping experts better predict severe storms as well as increase their understanding of climate change. All of this has important ramifications for how we respond to emergency weather events, mitigate global warming, and even verify insurance claims. Advanced technology has improved the… Read more »
On Thursday, July 4th our nation will celebrate the 237th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. This holiday has become a day for backyard barbecues, fireworks, and neighborhood block parties. Many Americans take advantage of the federal holiday, written into law along with New Year’s Day and Christmas Day during the Forty-First… Read more »
Copyright © 2013 Oxford University Press The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the self-described “definitive record of the English language,” recently added “big data” to its ranks, defining the term as, “data of a very large size, typically to the extent that its manipulation and management present significant logistical challenges.” The OED, first published in 1884, currently… Read more »
In the wake of the devastating tornadoes that struck Oklahoma this May, several Praescient team members deployed to Moore, Oklahoma to support the relief efforts of Team Rubicon (TR), a non-governmental organization comprised of military veterans and medical professionals dedicated to disaster relief. Team Rubicon mobilized volunteers from across the country who rapidly deployed to… Read more »
As recent events across the Middle East and North Africa have shown, the nature of the global system is in a state of flux. Two critical trends, power diffusion and power transition, are reshaping the manner in which actors around the world interact and redefining the nature of geopolitical relationships. In particular, the role of… Read more »
As part of the ongoing partnership with the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute, Praescient recently supported the analysts at CTP on a project tracking al Qaeda and its associated movements. Using the Palantir software, analysts from CTP and Praescient have tracked the evolution of al Qaeda into a more decentralized movement spanning… Read more »
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, often referred to as the “Fathers of the Internet,” united once again on April 4th for a talk dubbed “A Look at the Internet’s Future.” The event was hosted by the Princeton Club of Washington as part of its speaker series for Princeton University alumni in the Washington, D.C. area. … Read more »