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Daily Big Data News from @topdatanews - Aug 23, 2016
Daily Big Data news from @topdatanews.
Big data helps police spot bad apples - if they use it
The Justice Department’s investigation of Baltimore police this month rebuked the agency for an entrenched culture of discriminatory policing.
SAS, Samsung SDS to supply big data analytics
Samsung SDS, the IT service affiliate of Samsung Electronics, and US-based business analytics vendor SAS will offer their jointly-developed new big …
Garbage in, garbage out: Canada’s big data problem
What we call big data analytics works by finding previously unknown patterns in the huge blocks of data that very large organizations governments …
dmexco is the global business and innovation platform of the digital
dmexco is the global business and innovation platform of the digital economy. It enables visitors to experience disruptive trends and defines the …
Will ‘Analytics On The Edge’ Be The Future Of Big Data?
An Internet of Things (IoT) approach to business brings many benefits, primarily access to more data and better insights. It also brings new challenges.
Teradata buys UK analytics consultancy Big Data Partnership
Big Data Partnership was established in 2012 by co-founders Mike … big data technologies such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark and NoSQL.
Speed ‘crucial to optimising Big Data gains’
Speaking at a BusinessCloud Big Data conference at the International Festival for Business in Liverpool, he said: When you’re generating significant …
The future of big data is all about location
The future of big data is all about location. Marketers are increasingly turning to location data but issues such as privacy remain front of mind, Shona …
Garbage in, garbage out: Canada’s big data problem
as Prime Minister Trudeau’s game plan for slowing Canada’s brain drain and …
Learn details of the big data as a service market 29 company profiles and
WhaTech The report introduces Big data as a Service basic information including definition, classification, application, industry chain structure, industry overview …
Thinking about measuring Aug’s non-places with Big Data
kind of Big Data, to measure non-places in the context of tourism by giving …
Making Sense of Big Data with Visualization
Making Sense of Big Data with Visualization. Visual analytics could be the only way to precisely measure historical data and to draw future trajectories.
What will big data mean for your data centre?
The era of big data will therefore demand a new approach for the data centre, which will need to be faster and more flexible than in the past in order to …
Cleared for Takeoff: Extending Data Warehousing to the Cloud
Prat is founder and CEO of Cazena and also a successful big data … many look at cloud options and open-source technologies like Hadoop and …
Syncsort Acquires Cogito to Enhance Growing Big Iron to Big Data Software
PR Newswire (press release) This acquisition builds on Syncsort’s strengths in delivering key mainframe data to cutting-edge Big Data platforms like Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark …
Big Data And Bad Cops: Can An Algorithm Predict Police Misconduct (Part 1)
Over the past year the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department has partnered with big data researchers to see if such a program can be created.
Industry body wants regulatory definition of big data
Without a common understanding of what the NAIC views as Big Data, regulators and interested parties run the risk of not approaching the subject …
Big data and hidden cameras are emerging as dangerous weapons in the
Quartz Earlier this summer, the Washington Post wrote about a disturbing tenant-screening software service called Tenant Assured. The service, provided by …
Colombia govt reveals results of big data health app
Setting up doctor’s appointments and waiting times are the biggest concerns of Colombians in terms of healthcare, an analytics tool developed .
Syncsort inhales Cogito, ergo Big Data and Big Iron can be friends
Syncsort was originally a mainframe data sorting company, but it now focuses on Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) capabilities for Hadoop and Big Data, …
Syncsort buys mainframe expertise to link Big Iron to Big Data
And with Hadoop, the prospect of mining that old mainframe data, or even offloading some applications to commodity, open source platforms, has …
Data Lakes and Overcoming the Waste of ‘Data Janitor’ Duties
Data lakes solve a lot of problems in today’s big data world. When properly designed, they serve as an efficient means for storing large volumes and …
Numbers lie all the time: How political polls work
The business of numbers is big business. Read our quick guide to how polling works, how big data changed the industry, and the most influential and …
With the Proliferation of IoT, How Do You Govern Big Data?
age that’s more connected than ever. The universe you’ve created is …
The Other Side Of The Big Data Equation
The opportunities made available by Big Data are truly mind-boggling. For years retailers and other consumer facing businesses had dreamt of being …
Big Data Advantage, part 2: This is a very complicated case … You
In my last post on big data advantages, I wrote about the potential impact of big data and the types of things companies are looking to get out of their …
Stanford Study Will Inspire Any IT Pro Intrigued By Machine Learning
A study by Stanford researchers finds computers can predict lung cancer patient outcomes better than pathologists. While the study is specific to the …
Researcher’s Code Could Be Key To Crunching Cancer’s Big Data
Researchers said someday this type of big data crunching could help doctors tailor a specific treatment to a patient’s specific cancer mutation.
Big Data Analysis in Higher Education: Promises and Pitfalls
capability for decision making based on big data. This use of big data …
Don’t Be a Big Data Snooper
In our current big data age, where data scientist and analysts are building all sorts of models to explain and predict how the world around us works, …
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