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Daily Big Data News from @topdatanews - Aug 9, 2016
Daily Big Data news from @topdatanews.
Investing in big data? It might benefit your hospital to think smaller
In less than a decade, internet searches for the term “big data” exploded, growing nearly 100 percent between 2011 and 2016 alone. That trend …
Toshiba Introduces All-Flash Big Data Real-Time Analytics Platform
Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. (TAEC) has rolled out an all-flash big data analytics platform designed to enable real-time or streaming …
Can big data studies know your thoughts and predict who will win an
The Conversation AU Who’ll be the next president of the United States Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? Flickr/torbakhopper, CC BY-NC-ND …
Open Source Interfaces with the Programmable Web Facilitate Replications of
Ulrich Matter and Alois Stutzer, University of Basel. The replicability of social science research is becoming more demanding in the age of big data.
From Bones to Connected Machines: The Curious Evolution of Big Data
Where will big data and connected machines take us next? Implantable technology is just one area, and it’s one that’s becoming an increasingly …
How Big Data And Analytics Help Athletes Win Olympic Gold In Rio 2016?
Across all sports, athletes and coaches are increasingly working with big data and analytics to squeeze every last insight out of every drop of data …
Groups Harness Big Data to Map Gaps in Human Services Across Colorado
Groups Harness Big Data to Map Gaps in Human Services Across Colorado. share this article. A new tool maps Colorado’s food, health care, child …
The FTC Will Not Leave Companies to Their Own Devices
Earlier this year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a report that provides recommendations to companies that rely on big data. The report …
Big Data and digital signage driving the parking industry
The two key areas where digital technology is changing the car-parking industry landscape are the use of Big Data and the use of digital screens to …
Big data computing as alternative to D/L method
Until the Duckworth-Lewis Method came along in 1999, cricket matches affected by rain seemed to descend into a lottery of sorts, with no proper, …
The Third Wave: Why Big Data is the Future of Legal Tech
Big data puzzle A few days ago, I walked into my local Walgreens to buy a few household odds and ends. Along with my receipt, the cashier handed …
Big data research is ‘unlocking the Chinese economy’
tools is providing insights into customer behaviour in the country.
Streaming Data: Big Data at High Velocity
When you think of Big Data, you probably think of massive databases of … Hadoop’s MapReduce paradigm, which divides massive datasets across …
Hadoop vendor MapR raises another $50M as it sets its sights on IPO
The use of Hadoop-based open source big-data technology continues to grow among enterprises, and today MapR Technologies, one of the bigger …
Big Data, Cloud Demand Drive IT Job Growth
IT job numbers grew in July, but not as fast as they did during the rest of 2016. Yet big data and cloud trends will continue to drive job growth …
Why privacy is the killer app
For businesses, the promise of unlimited consumer behavioral data has fueled investments in big data and the explosive growth of the martech/adtech …
Big Data Software Developer - TS/SCI, ElasticSearch, Kibana
kibana, Apache Spark, R If you are a Software Developer with Big Data …
MapR’s $50M funding round could prove the maturity of the big data market
For those unfamiliar, MapR offers an enterprise distribution of Apache Hadoop for big data deployments. Hadoop is often considered the big data …
Rapid big data prototyping with Microsoft R Server on Apache Spark
… Also, there is a similar walkthrough for HDInsight Hadoop cluster which …
Big Data platform provider MapR raises $50M as it waits for right time to
Silicon Valley Business Journal (blog) MapR Technologies, one of the top three providers of Big Data platforms based on open source software known as Hadoop, has landed another $50 …
Beware, corporate big data is following you | Feedback
To the Editor: Be careful big capitalism is watching. My wife and I have separate personal computers and we never use each other’s PC. Also, my …
Tech Tuesday: How Big Data on the Seas Could Guide Innovation on Land
the International Data Corporation estimates that there will be about 23 …
5 Ways Big Data Is Going to Change Over the Next Decade
Big data has become a popular topic, particularly in the business community. It’s become a buzzword in its own right, but it also describes an entire …
ZeroDB Provides Security for Enterprise Big Data in the Cloud
Founders: MacLane Wilkison Michael Egorov. Funding: As of 8⁄9, ZeroDB …
MapR Raises $50M for Big-Data Offering
MapR is trying to map a course to an IPO. San Jose, Calif.-based MapR has been acquiring customers for its big-data platform, but it remains to be …
Startup aims to make Census data easier to use
It gets too large to handle on one computer, and that’s when it starts to be considered big data. It’s accurate, but it’s not the tidiest, easiest dataset that …
Big data will be employed in Loudoun County development
22 Capital Partners, a venture builder private equity company based in Chantilly, has formed a technology platform that it says will help power the …
Intel acquires deep learning startup Nervana
Chipmaker Intel today announced that it has acquired Nervana, a startup that has been developing artificial intelligence software and hardware.
Google, Stanford Partner for Genomics, Precision Medicine Project
Stanford Medicine and Google are teaming up to build Stanford’s Clinical Genomics Service, which aims to leverage big data to improve precision …
How Big Data Analytics is Changing Legal Ethics (Perspective)
Big data analytics are changing how lawyers find clients, conduct legal research and discovery, draft contracts and court papers, manage billing and …
UNM HSC lands $2.4 million to use ‘big data’ in quest for better health
Albuquerque Business First The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center has been awarded almost $2.4 million to chronicle the impact of commonly prescribed drugs on …
Analytic platform targets demanding big data applications
Toshiba’s all-flash, big data analytic platform technology, Flashmatrix, is well suited for the growing need for real time and streaming analytics in …
What Is Big Data in HR
customer, and transactional data available in organizations. In the case of …
Big Data Storage Solutions: Options Abound
Hadoop, Spark and other big data analysis tools all have one thing in common: they need some form of big data storage to hold the vast quantities of …
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