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.
While on active duty in the U.S. Army, I commanded soldiers whose job category was more of a profession than a trade. These elite personnel trained for years in post-graduate study specific to their field. Once their educational foundation was complete, the soldiers entered an apprenticeship to hone their on-the-job skills. That experience further reinforced… Read more »
Here on the blog, we’ve discussed the implications of big data in the realms of national security, disaster relief, poverty reduction, and epidemiology. Big data is also driving analysis in the world of sports. Last week’s Sloan Sports Analytic Conference at MIT focused on how big data is driving analytics in baseball, hockey, football, and… Read more »
This post was written by Alis Wang Palantir Technologies and the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) announced last month at the CGI Winter Meeting that the two will be launching a new CGI Commitment to Action, a collaboration that will use the Palantir platform to significantly improve disaster relief efforts. The collaboration is the first… Read more »
At last week’s Georgetown Law/Journal of National Security and Policy conference entitled “Swimming in the Ocean of Big data: National Security in the Age of Unlimited Information,” Professor Paul Ohm referenced a now well-known quote, “data is the new oil.” If you’re a data-head like we are, you shake your head a bit when you… Read more »
Across the globe, many people and families live on a little more than one dollar per day. The phenomenon of poverty can be understood as a global problem, but leaders and practitioners alike must develop solutions that will successfully be implemented and sustained at the local level. The deployment of advanced analytic technologies will enable… Read more »
Last week, General Ray Odierno, the Army’s most senior leader, spoke about the “Army of the Future” at an event at the Brookings Institution . This was another in a series of speeches and papers he has put forward over the last year to outline his vision for how the Army needs to adapt and… Read more »
Praescient is excited to be presenting next Tuesday at the launch of INTERPOL’s Project SCALE, a new international law enforcement initiative designed to detect, combat, and suppress global illegal fishing and related illicit activities. Illegal fishing—characterized by unregulated trawling in restricted geographic zones—threatens food security and livelihoods in regions like West Africa, where countries are… Read more »
When combating the spread of disease, researchers and scientists need to work together to understand the way in which networks interact at the cellular level. The work being undertaken by Algorithmic Network Science Group (ANSG) at West Point’s Network Science Center to study force and data scientists at Reveal to study influence begs analysts to… Read more »
When I think back on my 16 months with the company, one word comes to mind—growth. I interviewed with Praescient in September of 2011 shortly after we had acquired our office space in Alexandria, VA. Back then, we were a little start up with all of 25 employees. I remember walking into the office and… Read more »
This post was written by Alis Wang The cyberwarfare threat is becoming a growing concern to US officials as well as banks and media companies. Just last week, The New York Times revealed that Chinese hackers attacked the newspaper continuously over the last four months by infiltrating its computer systems and obtaining employee passwords. The… Read more »