big-data

Economist's View: '100% Reserve Banking' and 'Big Data: Are we …

A link to this post is being retweeted in unusually large numbers: 100% Reserve Banking — The History, by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi: So both John Cochrane and Martin Wolf are advocating 100% reserve banking. If these two agree on anything, it’s worth taking seriously! (It’s pretty amazing how advocates for narrow banking come from across the […]

March 20 Webinar: How to Scale MySQL for Big Data Applications …

March 20 Webinar: How to Scale MySQL for Big Data ApplicationsPosted onMarch 13, 2014byAmanda JordanYou may think that you have to buy, install, and get up to speed on a new database if you want to work with large amounts of data, but you can do more than you think with the MySQL you already have.Register Now!SPEAKER: Jon Tobin, TokutekDATE: […]

To build or not to build: that is the big data question — Tech News …

In-house teams are often tasked with building and delivering a transformative IT project, and while CSP IT teams are highly skilled, this existing knowledge is often redundant in a big data world and new skills are now required. The acquisition of this expertise is one of the key drivers behind the shift toward pre-built big data solutions, though as with […]

Linux Today – Elasticsearch Couples Analytics to Big Data Search

Elasticsearch Couples Analytics to Big Data Search Feb 15, 2014, 15:00 (0 Talkback[s])

(Other stories by Mike Vizard)One of the primary tools that developers have been using to determine data’s relevancy for Big Data applications is an open source enterprise search and indexing engine developed by Elasticsearch that, as of this week, is now being packaged up into a formal […]

ArtsJournal – How Big Data Is Finding Meaning In Meaningless Data

“While traditional data analysis tends to focus on data that has intrinsic, meaningful value, Big Data allows us to aggregate otherwise meaningless data and find insight in the group. By way of analogy, it probably won’t tell us much to observe the individual meanderings of an ant, but when observing the colony together, patterns emerge.”

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HOR Big Data and Web 2014 : Handbook of Research on Trends …

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: February 28, 2014
Full Chapter Deadline: April 31, 2014
Handbook of Research on Trends and Future Directions in Big Data and Web Intelligence
A book edited by Mohamed Elhassan Seliaman, [email protected]
King Faisal University, Al Ahsa, Hofuf, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Noor Zaman, [email protected]
King Faisal University, Al Ahsa, Hofuf, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Mohd Fadzil Hassan, [email protected]
Universiti […]

Big Data Has Transformative Potential – Business Insider

BIIThe world is awash in data, with mobile driving the latest surge in data volume. This is being touted as great news for every aspect of business. Big data is seen as a way to improve productivity at every level of a company, give brands exact ad targeting capability, and help make healthcare and government more efficient.But there’s a big […]

NYC think-tank devoted to critical analysis of Big Data seeks fellows …

Outstanding social scientist danah boyd has founded a new thinktank (or “think/do-tank”) called The Data & Society Research Institute, based in New York City, and devoted to critical analysis of big data, and “social, technical, ethical, legal, and policy issues that are emerging because of data-centric technological development.” It’s well-funded, with an exciting mission, and they’re hiring.

Data & Society is […]

A Room with a View (of Crucial Big Data Insights) – Cisco Blog

What’s the problem with Big Data? You guessed right — it’s BIG.Big Data empowers organizations to discern patterns that were once invisible, leading to breakthrough ideas and transformed business performance. But there is simply so much of it, and from such myriad sources — customers, competitors, mobile, social, web, transactional, operational, internal, external, structured, and unstructured — that, for many […]