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Post Covid Consumer Shopping Habits
Laurence Shanet, Liquid Barrier Head Writer
Introduction: Participant Demographics In an effort to better understand the impact of the pandemic on local small business consumer shopping habits, Nodat surveyed a cross-section of potential local small business patrons in a number of regional markets to...
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Hospital Op Ed-Article
Laurence Shanet, Liquid Barrier Head Writer
While the COVID-19 pandemic itself may be unprecedented, America’s poor national response to it shares some of the same root causes with previous public healthcare failures, including the disappointing initial rollout of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Both...
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Nobel Prizes Are Broken
Laurence Shanet, Liquid Barrier Head Writer
The COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting a truth we have known for some time: that important scientific achievements are increasingly the result of teams building on the work of other teams over many years. The traditional conception of heroic...
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Data Lakes Editorial
Laurence Shanet, Liquid Barrier Head Writer
In an effort to help stem the pandemic, many enterprise AI-driven companies have announced the public release of huge collections of their data, known as “data lakes.” They are sharing these data lakes in the hope that global...
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Blockchain and You
Laurence Shanet, Liquid Barrier Head Writer
2022-12-15
If you’ve ever sat down with a parent or grandparent and tried to explain blockchain, you know how difficult a concept it can be to lay out in simple terms. But one of the reasons it may be...