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Daily Big Data News from @topdatanews - Aug 24, 2016
Daily Big Data news from @topdatanews.
How to Turn Dark Data from a Problem into an Advantage
These files can reside far more cost-effectively in Hadoop or the cloud. … updates from customer databases to big data platforms such as Hadoop, …
Ones & Zeros : How Digital Power Plants Are Leveraging Big Data and
Power Engineering Magazine Italy, 1952. The war is finally over, and people are beginning to hope for the future again. Soldiers are starting families; towns are being rebuilt, and at …
LaunchLab, Nedbank to host fintech, big data innovation challenge
The LaunchLab incubator at Stellenbosch University has partnered South Africa’s Nedbank to host an innovation challenge in fintech and big data.
Is Your Organization Guilty of Being a Data Hoarder?
Regrettably, the rise of “Big Data” has been accompanied by the often … Advancements in technology (through technologies such as the Hadoop …
How the SA public sector can make the most of big data
Now that the dust around the local elections has settled, the spotlight will be on the various municipalities to prove that they are worthy of the public’s …
How Technological Advancements are Beneficial for Sharing Economy
Companies today are leveraging technologies such as GPS, Big Data and Machine Learning, and other open source technology to match up owners …
A Math Nerd Wants to Stop the Big Data Monster
The decision to leave her job as a tenure-track math professor at Barnard College and join hedge fund D.E. Shaw in 2007 seemed like a no-brainer.
Insurance Big Data Saves Money and Lives. Except In California
Pay-As-You-Drive changed the business of Auto Insurance. Instead of drivers buying insurance at fixed prices, determined according to crude …
Big Data And Bad Cops: Can An Algorithm Predict Police Misconduct? (Part 2)
Over the past year, the CMPD and data researchers with the University of Chicago have taken part in an ambitious experiment. Can an algorithm help …
Teradata Aster Analytics Going Places: On Hadoop and AWS
“Aster has always been about connecting analysts with big data at scale. … Teradata Aster Analytics on Hadoop 7.0 will be generally available in …
SAP invests in Vivanda, a food digitization, big data company
SAP said it has invested in Vivanda, a company that is aiming to use big data and analytics to digitize and personalize food. On the surface, SAP’s …
Teradata Aster Analytics Going Places: On Hadoop and AWS
advanced multi-genre analytics can now build on any investment.
The Big Data Era of Mosaicked Deidentification: Can We Anonymize Data
Forbes The era of big data has brought with it an incredible wealth of massive new datasets cataloging global society. Making possible this deluge of …
CIO Review recognises Wipro EcoEnergy among ‘100 Most Promising Big Data
ITWeb “We are pleased to recognise Wipro EcoEnergy as one among the 100 Most Promising Big Data Solution Providers 2016,” said Jeevan George, …
Omri Ben-Shahar on Car Insurance and Big Data
buying insurance at fixed prices, determined according to crude …
Big Data Requires More than Just Big Storage
Big Data and big storage go hand in hand in the age of the Internet of … very early days of Spark and Hadoop you’ll realize how much progress has …
AWS big data storage tools power BI efforts
Developers must choose among a wealth of big data storage and processing … HBase and Hadoop are readily supported within Amazon Elastic …
How big data helped raise big money on the campaign
“Big data means a lot of different things,” said Trace Anderson. … what he learned from the 2016 campaign, why big data matters to business, and the …
Western View: Just What is Ag Big Data
Big Data is a new crop that farmers are growing now, often without even being aware of it. Yet it’s a crop that has value, and farmers need to protect …
Sisense Takes Home Four Prestigious Industry Awards, Further Validating
Business Wire (press release) As the use of Big Data continues to grow among businesses, Sisense remains at the forefront of innovation, and with this latest round of recognition, …
Seattle AWS Big Data Meetup: Building Smart Healthcare Applications on AWS
Werth Seattle AWS Big Data Meetup: Building Smart Healthcare Applications on … Use Spark 2.0, Hive 2.1 on Tez, and the latest from the Hadoop ecosystem …
SAP HANA big data strategy leans heavily on open source Hadoop tools
Apache Spark analytics framework underpins HANA Vora, the front-end query tool SAP users will need to link HANA technology to data in the Hadoop …
Investing in the Era of Big Data and Short Attention Spans Equities
Equities.com It’s becoming harder and harder for people to keep up with the digital age. The sheer volume of data and content being produced and consumed on a …
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