About 60 percent of organizations are in the process of shifting resources from their existing data management investments to Hadoop, according to research from Wikibon.org, while 30 percent intend to begin on the journey by the end of the year. For Chris Selland, a former longtime analyst and current vice president of marketing and business development at Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Vertica […]
Walking in a data-wonderland: Big Data meets virtual reality Mike Wheatley | August 12thREAD MOREOne of the biggest challenges with Big Data is that the human mind is just too feeble to comprehend such vast amounts of information. Our brains just become overwhelmed when you’re talking petabytes upon petabytes of data, but EU researchers think they’ve hit upon a way […]
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By Zhicheng Liu*and Jeffrey Heer, University of WashingtonOne acknowledged benefit of using visualizations to explore data is to support interactive analysis at the speed of thought: starting from a visual overview of the data, analysts can interactively drill down, filter and change encoding to examine the data from different perspectives.When dealing with large volumes of data, the time taken for query processing, […]
Ukrainians in Czech Republic called up to serve in…12 Aug 2014 10:00 – Czech News AgencyAn estimated 20,000 men living in the country have been drafted by the Ukrainian military to fight t [ … ]Half of Czechs say they fear war may hit country11 Aug 2014 09:00 – Czech News AgencyConflict in Ukraine has people on edge; more than […]
A new technology developed by researchers funded by the European Union could revolutionise the way we process data – Big Data.With a whopping €6.5m of EU funding invested in this innovative initiative, the CEEDs project is comprised of 16 partners in nine countries (Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and the UK).According to a European Commission press […]
Is the answer to our feeble human minds needing to grapple with increasing quantities of big data to stand in a purpose built room immersed in complex data visualisations while wearing an array of sensors that track our physiological reactions? A group of European Commission-backed scientists believe so.They’re attempting to quantify — and, they claim, enhance — cognition by building a sensor-based data visualisation system that dynamically changes the complexity level […]
Northern Aerial View. Image Courtesy of Make ArchitectsMake Architects have just received planning permission to build a world-class institute devoted to research and processing of health-related data on Oxford University’s Old Road Campus. The Big Data Institute (BDI) will be built adjacent to two other Make-designed buildings: The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology and the NDM Research Building. The BDI will be London-based […]
What does big data say about Sri Lanka?On 8th August 2014, LIRNEasia held an event titled “Big data for development: Responsible use of mobile meta-data to support public purposes” in Negombo, Sri Lanka that was attended by all the MNOs in Sri Lanka as well as MNOs/ industry representatives from Pakistan, Bangladesh and India.The purpose of the event was two-fold:Show how mobile […]
