Big Data

Using Big Data to Predict Mortality in ICU Patients | Intel Science …

Today, Monday, August 25 at the 20th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in New York, ISTC for Big Data researchers will present a paper entitled “Unfolding Physiological State: Mortality Modelling in Intensive Care Units.”  The paper is an important work that looks at clinical notes – the observational, timely and knowledge-based information captured by nurses, doctors […]

The Rise of Big Data in Health Care | Kaiser Permanente Center for …

Big Data has made headlines in technology by customizing user experience and predicting behavior.What is Big Data you ask?It’s the storage and analysis of large quantities of information generally considered too complex for traditional use. Other industries, including health care, are also starting to explore the practical applications of using data to inform decision-making.I recently explored the potential for the […]

How Zynga uses Big Data to ensure new game success …

How Zynga uses Big Data to ensure new game success | #HPBigData2014 Rose Meadows | August 22ndREAD MOREIn gaming, analysis is critical and needs to take place in real-time. You would think the pressure of real-time analytics would cause stress for something as complex as video gaming, but that’s not the case with Zynga. At Hewlett-Packard, Co.’s Vertica Big Data […]

Twitter's Big Data crunching 'BotMaker' muscles in on spam …

If you’re an avid Twitter user, you might have noticed a significant drop in the amount of spam messages and tweets bugging you. That’s because Twitter’s introduced a new anti-spam system called BotMaker that’s helped it to achieve a 40 percent reduction in its key spam metrics.Twitter’s Raghav Jeyaraman describes in a lengthy blog post why fighting Twitter spam is […]

PwC expert says big data could herald new 'golden age' – www …

Big data could bring “a second Age of Enlightenment”, according to PwC partner Matthew Tod, an expert in digital analytics.“We’ll understand what is going on in our world much better,” he argues. It will “turn the lights on”.But businesses need to act fast, he says, not just because they risk being left behind but because it may become more difficult […]

Prediction: First billion dollar Big Data company will be a practitioner …

Prediction: First billion dollar Big Data company will be a practitioner | #HPBigData2014 Rose Meadows | August 21stREAD MOREWith increasing attention on the business side of tech innovation, the world seems to be awaiting the rise of the first billion-dollar Big Data company. A recent $50 million dollar investment from Hewlett-Packard (HP) put Hortonworks a step forward in its goal […]

Particle Research: Where Software Defined and Big Data Collide …

Dr. Volker Gülzow, head of IT, Deutsches Elektronen-SynchrotronBy Dr. Volker GülzowWhen it comes to data volumes, there’s Big Data, and then there’s Huge Data.This is our reality at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), a leading national research center in Germany. We’ve been storing, processing and managing massive amounts of data before the term Big Data was even coined.PETRA III, the most brilliant […]

Companies Not Embracing 'Big Data' – Business Insider

For years, big data has been one of the hottest buzzwords across all industries.Big data is the term used to describe the process of analyzing complex set of data sets to discover information that could help make better decisions or find certain patterns that were previously unknown.For example, Amazon is able to recommend products based on your previous buying patterns. […]

How automation at scale can put HP ahead in Big Data services …

How automation at scale can put HP ahead in Big Data services | #HPBigData2014 Cheryl Knight | August 20thREAD MOREBeing able to handle massive amounts of Big Data can help a company keep a step ahead of its competition, and Hewlett-Packard, Co. is hoping to provide the platform to help companies gain the lead. Real-time data in particular can empower […]