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Update: Intel To Apply Big Data Into Medicine – Intel Corporation …

SummaryIntel is planning to apply Big Data into medicine by pairing smartwatches with its analytics software.
Intel and the Michael J. Fox Foundation have joined hands for conducting a study on Parkinson’s disease.
In our original article, we said that Intel has tremendous opportunities in the IoT, although we didn’t anticipate that Intel would go into medicine.
The recent news confirms our view […]

How to avoid a big data nightmare – BetaNews

Big data is no longer just the domain of big companies. As the perception of big data moves from futuristic hype to real-world opportunity, the promise of improved decision making, increased operational efficiency and new revenue streams has more organizations actively engaging in data analysis projects than ever before. That no longer only means more enterprise organizations, either. Midmarket companies […]

TraderFeed: Measuring Buying and Selling Power in the Stock Market

Recent posts have focused on improved versions of standard market indicators, including sentiment, Bollinger Bands, VWAP, and ticks. One of my most challenging projects, however, has focused on the creation of measures of buying and selling pressure in the stock market. My goal in creating this measure was to follow an intuition and treat supply and demand as separate, independent […]

How Big Data Can Inform Healthcare Decisions | Kaiser …

In current medical practice, newborns are typically taken to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) if the mother’s temperature rises above 100.4 degrees because that may signal an increased risk of neonatal sepsis, a bacterial blood infection. With the emergence of Big Data and evidence-based medical practices, many infants are spared that trip due to an innovative metric that allows […]

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

In current medical practice, newborns are typically taken to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) if the mother’s temperature rises above 100.4 degrees because that may signal an increased risk of neonatal sepsis, a bacterial blood infection. With the emergence of Big Data and evidence-based medical practices, many infants are spared that trip due to an innovative metric that allows […]

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 […]

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, […]

Sensex weighed down by global sentiment, rebound expected – India

Mumbai, Aug 9 : A dip in the global sentiment led by geo-political tensions and the Reserves Bank of India’s decision to keep key interest rates unchanged weighed heavy on the Indian equities market in the week just ended. The markets lost 0.59 percent in the week ended Aug 8 from its previous weekly close on Aug 1. Markets’ analysts said weakness in […]

Netflix Social Media Sentiment Analysis – Discovery Research Group

Netflix Social Media Sentiment AnalysisPosted by Vaughn Mordecai on Fri, Aug 08, 2014 @ 06:38 PM Email ArticleI’m sort of a Netflix junky. I love that I can sit down for twenty minutes, catch an episode of some random television show and walk away. I’m also sort of a binge watcher. I find myself totally addicted to different shows and […]

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 […]