Big Data

ArtsJournal – Science's Problem With Big Data

“As the rest of the society, from business and economics to journalism and art, wakes up to the power of big data, the world of research is, ironically, not doing nearly enough to embrace the power of information. A big-data mindset involves more than having a lot of petabytes on your hard drive, and science is falling short in three […]

Big Data made us an eclectic electronic playlist | The Music Mix | EW …

Big Data, a.k.a. Alan Wilkis, spends a lot of time thinking about heavy stuff, like the erosion of our privacy and how companies and the government exploit it. That admittedly paranoid worldview permeates pretty much everything he makes—including his song “Dangerous” and its hysterically gory video.Related Hear 10 songs Joey Bada$$ is feeling right nowOn the other hand, he’s also a pretty hardcore […]

Big Data Turns Tennis into Music – NY1

In an attempt to make the US Open even more dramatic than it already is, IBM has a tool that turns tennis stats into music. NY1’s Adam Balkin filed the following report.Might seem like something a high school math teacher tells his or her students in order to get them more enthusiastic about numbers but really, for the past few […]

Given Time, 'Big Data' Promises to Transform Patient Care — AAFP …

With limited time and a heavy patient load, physicians face a daunting task trying to identify a patient’s multiple needs during a single office visit.Now, growing implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) and other health information technology, combined with rapidly evolving clinical analytics techniques, promises to make this task easier. By collecting and analyzing data that present a more comprehensive, […]

Make Sure You're Getting Maximum Value from Your Big Data

Everyone is talking about the amazing insights big data can deliver, but simply having massive collections of data isn’t enough. Having big data without the ability to process it efficiently and properly is like having a warehouse full of ingredients but no ovens in which to create delicious products.Big data should earn its keep, and it can’t do that in […]

5 Signs Your Business Is Not Ready For Big Data – Blog – CQL

Big data has become the big thing recently and seems to be all anyone is talking about (besides it being the year of mobile, of course). By “big data,” we mean a concentrated effort to gather intelligence about your business so you can accomplish a deeper analysis.The fanfare isn’t unwarranted, though. Big data allows you to get a better understanding […]

How Do You Brand Big Data? | Adweek

Branding data is tough—and not just because many eyes glaze over when you start to talk about it. But in today’s media marketplace, it wouldn’t be wrong to think of the data world as a spreadsheety version of a gold rush, with everybody scurrying to stake their claim.“At the early stages of anything, most people who are in that thing […]

The Big Data Combat | SPEC INDIA

A large unstructured big volume data set; too complex to be handled by commonly used database management systems like RDBMS or DBMS is BIG Data. The size of the data stored in the world has exploded as it is constantly being gathered by various sources and these keep increasing too. The capacity of the world to store data doubles every […]

Think Tableau is successfully riding the Big Data wave? Tell us …

At the center of the data visualization market is Tableau Software, Inc., a company eager to simplify data consumption for the purpose of making it more accessible to everyday users. As Tableau gears up for its annual conference we look back at its notable developments in the past year, as well as expectations for the upcoming event. One big question […]

CloudPhysics uses big data to help VMware users benchmark their …

One of the difficulties with using virtual systems is that it’s harder to measure performance. Now though data insights specialist CloudPhysics is launching a new Global Insights tool to allow VMware users to continuously benchmark their virtual infrastructure against global metrics.This is part of enhancements to its SaaS solution which include interactive Daily Insights, that dynamically aggregate and expose operational […]