WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House review of how the government and private sector use large sets of data has found that such information could be used to discriminate against Americans on issues such as housing and employment even as it makes their lives easier in many ways.”Big data” is everywhere.It allows mapping apps to ping cellphones anonymously and determine, […]
Big Data: Are we making a big mistake?Five years ago, a team of researchers from Google announced a remarkable achievement in one of the world’s top scientific journals, Nature. Without needing the results of a single medical check-up, they were nevertheless able to track the spread of influenza across the US. What’s more, they could do it more quickly than […]
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The economic benefits of big data are no longer just hype—but many developing economies are set to miss out on them, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum.Data sets are “a new form of asset class,” which, with the right analysis, can be translated into economic wealth, say the authors of the 13th Global Information Technology Report. […]
April 25, 2014IBM Big Data Improves Agricultural EfficiencyIBM’s weather forecasting technology will help Georgia farmers improve agricultural efficiency by up to 20 percent, the company says.The Flint River Partnership (which includes the Flint River Soil and Water Conservation District, USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service and The Nature Conservancy) tapped IBM big data to enable smarter irrigation. Working with the University […]
Paul Waddell, a city planning professor at the University of California, Berkeley, with a penchant for conducting research with what he calls his “big urban data,” is putting his work to a real-world test in San Francisco.
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By Andrew Crotty, Alex Galakatos, and Tim Kraska, Brown UniversityThe increasing prevalence of big data across all industries and sciences is causing a profound shift in the nature and scope of analytics. Increasingly complex computations, ranging from machine learning to predictive modeling, are fast becoming the norm. Users commonly express such tasks as a collection of user-defined functions (UDFs), preferably written in […]
ReSnap, a platform for creating photo books from your social media channels in about a minute, has today launched a fully retooled version of its service that it says will ultimately allow users to turn any big data source into a print-on-demand book.While there are plenty of services for creating a photo book from your social channels, ReSnap promises to be […]
Jean Malouin, a family doctor in Michigan, woke up one morning earlier this month to an e-mail from a Washington Post reporter, who informed her that a vast release of Medicare payment data from 2012 had identified her as the highest female biller in the country, and the seventeenth-highest over all, with more than seven million dollars in payments. Malouin […]
by Rob Jenkins, Global Center of Excellence, SAPBig Data is often mentioned as one of the game-changing technology trends that every company must capitalize on to stay competitive. Most CIOs are familiar with how Big Data can be leveraged for transforming marketing (like multi-channel promotion effectiveness), manufacturing (defect prevention) or distribution (dynamic routing systems). In this era of technology innovation, […]
