Big Data Meets Big Compute
The promise of big data has ushered in an era of data intelligence. From machine data to human thought streams, we are now collecting more data each day, so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. In fact, every day, we create 2.5 quintillion […]
Big data has emerged as a big trend over the last several years, but as an area it has remained ill-defined and focused for the most part on data scientists, while ignoring business users. Adatao wants to change that by offering a solution that has something for both parties and a collaboration environment that lets them work together in one tool -and […]
Highlights from the presentations by Big Data leaders from TD Bank, Public Health Ontario and First Nations Education Steering Committee on day 1 of Big Data Innovation Summit 2014 in Toronto, Canada. By Anmol Rajpurohit, @hey_anmol, Aug 6, 2014.As many organizations are now working with unmanageably large data sets, the importance of using and maintaining an analytics platform which can cope […]
Precision ag big data conference
August 6, 2014
Never miss the latest news affecting Ohio agriculture. Subscribe to Digital Dale and follow along via Facebook and Twitter.Did you know that over two-thirds of every dollar spent in agriculture is spent on decisions focused on seed selection, fertility, and land access? Producers annually compile new information around input selections, farming practices, and risk […]
When it comes to energy access, we’re fond of saying small is big.That’s because all those small scale solar lanterns, solar home systems, and solar mini-grids add up to a very big market. But the size of that market, and its social impact, could well be dwarfed by an even larger opportunity the solar revolution is engendering. With the explosion […]
Defense ITBig data really needs a ‘big mechanism,’ DARPA saysBy George Leopold
Aug 06, 2014
A Defense Department research program seeks to leapfrog advanced big data analytics by developing automated search technologies that could help explain the causes and effects that drive complex systems.The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched its “big mechanism” initiative earlier this year with the goal of developing […]
In an interview with Science Friday, Dartmouth’s Jason H. Moore weighs in about Google’s new data collection project, called Baseline Study, which is attempting to paint a picture of human health by cataloging the DNA of healthy people, along with their blood, saliva, tears, and more.
“As a data scientist I am really excited about the Google Baseline Study,” says Moore, […]
ASCO Power Technologies” class=”alignleft size-full”/>BHAVESH PATEL
ASCO Power TechnologiesBhavesh Patel is Director of Marketing and Customer Support at ASCO Power Technologies, Florham Park, NJ, a business of Emerson Network Power.Business – and life in general – is becoming data-centric. In order to uphold reliability and preserve reputation, a data center must maintain an unimpeded flow of data at a level not […]
A group of British researchers believe they can harness the power of Wikipedia and Google searches to predict whether the economy’s going to go up or down.The research comes just a few months after Google Search’s Big Data was dismissed as a predictive tool, following reports that Google Flu Trends was well off the mark when it came to guessing […]
Tadas Viskanta, in 2012, made the argument that we are living in a golden age for individual investors because of the availability of data, the increased access to markets, and the ability to trade multiple asset classes and strategies via ETFs. As Tadas observes more recently, costs have come down significantly for individual traders and new ETF products place individual […]
