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Is Big Data IT's gift to the CEO? | Splunk Blogs

At the beginning of June, I was at the Gartner CIO & IT Executive Summit in Berlin. It was an interesting event to attend in terms of the advice given to the CIOs at the event, how to deal with the “digital industrial revolution” and how to support the CEO’s top business priorities.From the Gartner survey, a CEO’s top five […]

Capital markets big data 'still at an early stage' says Thomson Reuters

Big data is underused in capital marketsMost capital markets firms are still not using big data and even those that do often lack a concerted strategy, according to a new report commissioned by Thomson Reuters.The survey, which was carried out by analyst firm Aite, reported that only 5% of the 423 firms contacted felt willing or able to talk about […]

Google Searches Linked to Stock Market Moves – Scientific American

Wanna know what the most popular movies, albums and video games are? Ask the internet. But don’t Google it. Check what other people Googled. That’s the theory behind Google Flu Trends—which crunches search data to forecast flu prevalence. With admittedly mixed results.Nevertheless, researchers have applied the idea to the stock market. They found that when searches related to business and […]

Walking in a data-wonderland: Big Data meets virtual reality …

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 […]

Effects of Latency on Interactive Visual Analysis | Intel Science …

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, […]

EU research to make sense of Big Data | neurope.eu

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 […]

3 Big Myths About Big Data | Laddering Works

With all the current hype, be careful not to fall for any of these Big Data myths.Much of the conversation about Big Data surrounds the topic of its actual collection, but unless both your internal and external users can easily consume data, it is worthless.I was talking with Michel Guillet of Juice Analytics, a provider of products and services that make […]

TraderFeed: The Bollinger Balance: Tracking Stock Market Strength …

Recent posts have focused on ways of gauging broad market strength and weakness by tracking the wide range of individual stocks, rather than by relying solely upon a stock index. These market gauges include the percentage of stocks trading above their volume-weighted average prices; the upticks and downticks among all stocks trading in the U.S; and intraday new highs and […]

The Internet of Things Meets Big Data | Big Think | Think Tank

The Internet of Things is coming—are you ready? As Big Think reported recently in our interview with leading economist Jeremy Rifkin, the Internet of Things will connect everyone and everything in a seamless network. How will it intersect with Big Data?Chris Curran, the Chief Technologist of PwC, spoke to Big Think about this great technological shift:
Most of the data we […]

Red Hat Ceph Enterprise Brings Software Defined Storage to Big Data

Red Hat last month released the latest version of Inktank Ceph Enterprise, their object and block storage product based on the upstream open source Ceph project. It’s notable not only as the first release since Red Hat acquired the two-year-old startup, Inktank, in April, but also for two key features that help open up a new market for Ceph.While Ceph […]