Big Data

This Small City's Police Department Builds An App, Nabs Big Data …

Rochester, Minnesota (pop. 109,000) is a small city perhaps best known as the home of the Mayo Clinic.But that doesn’t mean the town’s police department is not busy–and connected. Last year the Rochester Police Department (RPD) decided to build an app to keep its officers’ 160 work smartphones connected and in communication when on the job. Like other tech-savvy departments, […]

How AT&T Uses Big Data to Shape its TV Creative | CMO Strategy …

AT&T’s ‘Lilly’
“It’s Not Complicated” may have been its name, but the insights that drove one of AT&T’s most successful ad campaigns ever were based on a massive three-year big-data project that was plenty complex.The campaign featuring comedian Beck Bennett and little kids in a classroom was the product of a three-year project. It involved an analysis of 40 […]

Invasion of the Data Snatchers, Big Data and the Internet of Things …

By Catherine Crump and Matthew Harwood. Crump is a staff attorney with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project and a non-residential fellow with the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and an adjunct professor of clinical law at NYU. Her principle focus is representing individuals challenging the lawfulness of government surveillance programs. Follow her on Twitter at @CatherineNCrump. Harwood […]

Google Launches BigQuery Streaming For Real-Time, Big-Data …

BigQuery, Google’s cloud-based tool for quickly analyzing very large datasets, is getting a massive price cut today (up to 85 percent). But Google is also adding an important new feature that will make it more competitive with the big data service offered by Amazon Kinesis and others. Starting soon, developers will be able to send up to 100,000 rows of real-time data […]

NVLink, Pascal and Stacked Memory: Feeding the Appetite for Big …

NVIDIA GPU accelerators have emerged in High-Performance Computing as an energy-efficient way to provide significant compute capability. The Green500 supercomputer list makes this clear: the top 10 supercomputers on the list feature NVIDIA GPUs. Today at the 2014 GPU Technology Conference, NVIDIA announced a new interconnect called NVLink which enables the next step in harnessing the full potential of the […]

Google Flu Trends' Failure Shows Good Data > Big Data

In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think, authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. They explained how Google’s algorithm mined five years of web logs, containing hundreds of billions of searches, and created a predictive model utilizing 45 search […]