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Praescient prides itself on providing the best minds equipped with the best analytic technologies. In the Praescient Analytics Blog below, you can find the latest musings of our analysts, as well as thoughts from our engineers, and news about the company. You can also learn more about our Partnered Research Organizations and Praescient’s Knowlton Project discussion series.
It’s been an exciting spring for big data enthusiasts in the policy analysis community. The cover of the current issue of Foreign Affairs magazine features an article titled “The Rise of Big Data,” authored by two experts whose recent book on the topic asserts that big data is nothing less than a “revolution that will… Read more »
We’re honored to have advanced to the Elite Eight of the U.S Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Hiring Our Heroes Small Business Tournament of Veteran Champions. The competition is seeking to crown a champion and identify the most veteran friendly small business in America. Both members of the Praescient team and friends of the company have… Read more »
The following post is written by Jeremy Valtin, an embedded analyst for Praescient who recently returned from Afghanistan. With pending troop drawdowns, base closures, and the transferal of operational responsibility to Afghan forces, the job of intelligence analysis have become increasingly complex. Analysts face a wide array of challenges, ranging from dwindling infrastructure, access to… Read more »
After the attacks of 9/11, the Department of Defense was forced to become more proficient in intelligence analysis. As new technologies were developed to help combat terrorism and fight two insurgencies, the way military intelligence analysts conducted analysis also developed. The evolution of the military intelligence analyst grew from tracking tanks and enemy movement on… 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 »
A principal challenge confronting the counter-trafficking community is the task of mapping and tracking over time the activities of continually evolving trafficking networks that operate on a global scale. In recent years, analytic software platforms have been developed that enable the rapid integration, visualization, analysis, and sharing of massive amounts of unstructured and structured data… Read more »
Last week I attended a CSIS event highlighting the completion of their report, “Trends in Militancy across South Asia,” which highlighted roughly sixteen months of research and field visits to a region that is consistently – but perhaps more now than ever – on the brink. Although the authors and other invited speakers had many… Read more »
The team at Praescient is always eager to find new ways to leverage the many sources of data increasingly available online. We were excited to have the opportunity to describe some of our work in this regard at the recent DC Open Analytics Summit sponsored by IKANOW. At the event, Praescient Vice President Bill Wall… 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 »
This post was written by Alis Wang One of the recent popular topics of discussion in the press is the gender gap in the tech industry. Even though women represent over half of the overall workforce in the US, they hold less than a quarter of all technical and computing jobs, and this number falls… Read more »