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Article > ABPI calls for united approach on 'big data' – PharmaTimes

The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) has published a road map to accelerate progress on harnessing the power of ‘big data’.
The move comes as all parties involved in healthcare find themselves in an exploding bioinformatics and data environment, which many believe will be a key driver for change over the next decade, improving patient care and putting the […]

Seeing Beyond the Big Data Backlash

There has been a lot of talk lately that ‘Big Data’ is just BS. Peter Houston looks beyond the hype to reveal what companies should be focusing on.Peter Houston Do you remember the first time you heard the phrase ‘Big Data’? Chances are, unless data’s what you do, it was last year. Big Data became big when the World Economic […]

Stock Market All Time Highs :: The Market Oracle :: Financial …

Stock Market All Time Highs

Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013Nov 17, 2013 – 01:01 PM GMTBy: Tony_Caldaro

The market opened the week higher, tried to break out above SPX 1775, pulled back to 1761 Wednesday morning, then made all time new highs for the rest of the week. For the week the SPX/DOW were +1.45%, the NDX/NAZ were […]

Trading Stocks Doesn't Have to Be Tricky | Wapp Blog

For nearly a century, the stock market has been something that has fascinated people across the world. There are people all over the world that look at this as a way to make millions of dollars and to get out of the financial situation that they are in. While there are some Cinderella stories that take place on Wall Street, […]

Udacity Blog: Sebastian Thrun: Launching our Data Science & Big …

I am excited to launch our new Data Science and Big Data Track. This is the first Data Science and Big Data curriculum built directly with industry pioneers. You can learn the latest techniques, tools, and concepts developed at the companies that made Big Data big.
Our first class in this track, Introduction to Hadoop and MapReduce, is available immediately. This […]

Big data approach to solar cells | Chemistry World

After 150 million theoretical calculations, scientists at Harvard University in the US reveal results that could cut down the time and cost of experimental tests to find better organic electronic materials for solar cells.Most solar cells are made from expensive inorganic materials. Solar cells from organic materials are a cheaper alternative and scientists have been working to find designs that […]

The CTOvision Big Data Top Enterprise Tech List: The most …

We produced this list as an aid to the enterprise CTO seeking information on the most capable mission-enabling infrastructure technologies. This is a companion piece to our list of the top analytical technologists on our Analyst One website. Our methodologies are at the bottom of this list.We trust you will find this list interesting and informative. Have some new technologies […]

BigData-Startups | How Nestlé Understands Brand Sentiment Of …

Print PDFNestlé is a very big company, with 486 factories in 86 countries and employing over 330.000 employees worldwide. The have a global portfolio of more than 2.000 global and local brands and they are the leading company in nutrition, health and wellness products. In 2012 they had total revenue of 75 billion euro (98 billion dollar), serving millions of […]

Sentiment Analysis: Is Social Media Driving Pakistan's Future?

In 2001, Pakistan came on the world map across US university campuses, claimed to be host to a number of highly dangerous enemies of the ‘free world’. Over the next few years, it successfully gained the status of ‘World’s most Dangerous Country’ courtesy of Newsweek, as though before it existed it was not dangerous, let alone a country. This is […]

Big Data is in the driver's seat at Hertz – BigData-Startups

Print PDFHow do you keep track of 10.000s of customer touch points a day, divided over 8.300 locations in 146 countries? Hertz used to do this by manually registering customer satisfaction via paper surveys that would take weeks to analyse. Whenever action was needed, it usually was too late and a customer was lost. Using Big Data they managed to […]