Thanks to Bill Podell, VP Big Data and BI Practice, MBI Solutions, for the guest post below.Capacity planning has long been a critical component of successful implementations for production systems. Today, Big Data calls for a particularly deep understanding of capacity management – because resource utilization explodes as business users, analysts, and data scientists jump onboard to analyze and use […]
The MLB draft is coming up and with any luck I’ll get this posted by Thursday and take advantage of web traffic. I can hope! (ed. note: nope) Anyway, Tuesday on FanGraphs I read a fascinating portrayal of the draft process, laying out the nuts and bolts of how organizations scout for the draft. The piece, written by Tony Blengino (whose essays are rapidly […]
One of the central requirements of Big Data is that you take a data-centric approach to cybersecurity. Well, that seems obvious enough – if your vital data is stored in huge repositories, it makes sense to secure said repositories – but apparently most people don’t get it.In a new paper from Gartner, Big Data Needs a Data-Centric Security Focus, the […]
It seems like there isn’t a day that goes by without yet another report proclaiming big data as an absolute necessity for retailers and small-to-medium business (SMB) owners, but these claims risk ignoring both the existing challenges of the industry, as well as the bigger picture.In fact, some analysts go as far as to claim that big data is nothing […]
Center for the Future of Museums: A Recap of Big Data
A Recap of Big Data
The good news about the CFM Big Data session in Seattle is that it was very well attended. Actually, that was the bad news, too, as the room was overflowing and we had to turn folks away. I suppose there are worse problems to have—I am […]
Big Data’s march through the health care industry really seems to be making news this week. Take, for example, this Wired profile of Modernizing Medicine, a company that aggregates data from “knowledge gathered from roughly 3,700 providers and more than 14 million patient visits.” Health care providers can then draw on this data to make better treatment decisions. Powerful search algorithms deliver precisely targeted results.Sounds […]
Big data is all the rage at the moment but when it comes to security it shouldn’t be treated in isolation from the rest of the organization.According to a new report from research specialists Gartner, policies need to take account of all forms of data if security problems are to be avoided.”Businesses have traditionally managed data within structured and unstructured […]
Golf has never been an exact science. It’s a fuzzy game that many players spend their whole lives attempting to master. Some of that fuzziness, however, may come into focus thanks to a new app for iOS called Arccos. Using something co-founders Sal Syed and Ammad Faisal call “club-to-cloud technology,” Arccos gives golfers the data they need to make better, […]
The UCL CoMPLEX Annual Conference continued the theme of Big Data, which has figured quite prominently in conferences this year. The speakers at this year’s CoMPLEX annual conference, Dr David Weston (Birkbeck), Dr Drew Purves (Microsoft Research), Professor Gesine Reinert (Oxford), Dr Peter White (Imperial, Public Health England), Professor Michael Stumpf (Imperial) and Professor Chris Gilligan (Cambridge, newly announced Chair of […]
Analysis of big data can provide valuable insights into how people learn. Photograph: Marcus BrandtBig data has been eagerly embraced by the business world. Now it’s time to look at how it can be used in education.The term refers to the trails we leave behind every time we use a website. We’re all familiar with sites such as […]
