Topic:
Data Management and Migration
Latest Headlines
Latest Headlines
Big data pays attention to detail in manufacturing
Software has done a great job automating processes and protecting quality, but big data is helping manufacturers measure their productivity over time and determine the best settings and methods for systems in their plants.
Adding more Vs to the big data definition
With so many varieties of data and variables to consider in building an effective predictive model, the first task should be to assess the viability of that data and confirm a particular variable's relevance before going further.
To hoard or not to hoard big data
Some say it is too early in the life of big data analytics to tell what data may be meaningful to future questions, so all data should be retained.
Big data in the legal field
KPMG LLP says that in the era of big data, e-discovery has become costly and challenging.
Facebook pushing the limits of big data
Other companies probably want to see how far Facebook can push the envelope in terms of privacy, sharing information and monetizing it, and at what point there is a return on investment, before risking their own customers to investment dollars.
Semantic web breakthrough good for big data
What was supposed to be a three-year research collaboration effort between the Fujitsu and the Digital Enterprise Research Institute at NUI Galway, has already had what it calls a semantic web breakthrough that could unlock billions of open data sets for sharing and accelerating the process of big data.
List attempts to preserve every notable event for future historians
The impact of every event that ever happened, no matter how small, reverberates through time even though the memory of it may be lost to history. But for human-generated and human-impacting events, especially geopolitical events, history may be more kind thanks to a comprehensive list of every event in human history called GDELT.
Ireland preserves electronic memory with big data, semantic web
Ireland has no shortage of great writers documenting its history, but its memory runs a little short when it comes to audio and video.
Big data has potential for $450 billion savings in health care
Some of the technologies and practices the report suggested are already under development at various research institutions, such as consistently recommending specific actions for specific ailments based on data analyzing best outcomes.
Health record systems not ready for big data, report says
Despite healthcare being one of the primary targets for companies with big data solutions and institutions with research dollars, and being an industry generating the most interest in applying big data, the Journal of the American Medical Association says systems that manage electronic health records and personal health records are incapable of leveraging big data.
