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As Cybercrime Escalates, Businesses Fight Back with Technology and Big Data
Elsewhere, we're seeing widespread data breaches at big box stores like Target, Home Depot, and more. Even in emerging markets there's a huge opportunity as the middle class's online presence grows rampantly, and their desire for financial inclusion …
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The power of small data: big data isn't king
“I can't feed my baby daughter data, as much as I'd love to because I love data. It's only useful if you apply it to create an actual public benefit.” –Todd Park. As Todd Park, U.S. technology advisor in Silicon Valley and former Chief Technology …
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RichRelevance crafts recipe for ingesting big data
The trouble for companies who are trying to exploit the new opportunities presented by big data is that the necessary extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) work is amplified many times over and across multiple dimensions. San Francisco-based …
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Big Data: One Thing to Think About When Buying Your Apple Watch
This is being proven now through big data, where jet engines are decreasing in size because of sensors that generate huge amounts of data regarding the engine's performance in order to improve its efficiency. In 1956, we needed to forklift a giant box …
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Why big data analytics strikes out sometimes
In this respect, big data is like the Babe. Many times, big data "hits a home run" and transforms a company; sometimes, it strikes out. For instance, did big data analytics foresee the recent plummet in oil prices? No, based on what Saudi billionaire …
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Open source tools for big data: How Hadoop could transform your job and your …
Hadoop's roots lie with the unequivocal big data behemoth of our age – Google. The search giant wasn't the first to enter the market, and was nineteenth behind billion dollar firm Yahoo. Within two years, Google's proprietary technology – its MapReduce …
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SXSW PANEL: How to Prepare for The Tidal Wave of Big Data Jobs
Umbel is hosting a full day of panels on big data from 11AM – 4:30PM on Friday, March 13 with a line-up of global experts who'll be discussing data insights, best practices, success stories and the very latest in big data technologies. Panels are open …
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Oracle updates big data portfolio, aims to be 'visual face of Hadoop'
According to Neil Mendelson, vice president of big data and advanced analytics, Oracle's plan is to take disruptive technologies like Hadoop and integrate them into the broader enterprise fold. Mendelson said that Oracle's big data strategy revolves …
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Tableau tools help tell stories from data
There's a lot of hype these days about "big data." One of the most … Now, thanks to data-visualization products like the software offered by Tableau, information is not only easy for businesses and consumers to access, but also easy to analyze …
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Data Visualization Shows JavaScript Is Tops on GitHub
One of the coolest data visualizations I've seen in a while shows JavaScript rules the repository roost on GitHub, by a pretty big margin. GitHut is "a small place to discover languages on GitHub," but it supplies a large amount of information …
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Big Data: Why Facebook Knows Us Better Than Our Therapist
With technology able to predict buying behaviour, relationship statuses, and now personality traits, data-driven intelligence is advancing. In the near future getting to know a complete stranger will be no more difficult than a few clicks of the keypad …
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Big Data and Privacy: 1 Year Out
Last January, recognizing that innovative big data technologies and tools are changing our economy, our government, and our society, President Obama charged me with leading a 90-day review of big data and privacy. Our working group found that we live …
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4 Lessons for Every Entrepreneur Creating Big Data Solutions
In working with the students to apply Big Data concepts and techniques to their use cases, I came away with a few observations that could be applied by any entrepreneur. … Companies have big investments in their data and technology environments.
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Hitachi Buys Pentaho to Bolster Big Data Business
Business intelligence and Big Data analytics vendor Pentaho is being acquired by Hitachi Data Services (HDS), in a deal that is set to close in June. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, Pentaho CEO Quentin Gallivan told Enterprise …
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Big Data Demands Big Computing
Yet, companies still struggle to understand how collecting and analyzing data can provide a deeper view of customers and lead to better business decisions. In the midst of all the big data hype, we seem doomed to the same fate encountered in the …
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Pivotal open sources Big Data for the enterprise
Pivotal introduces what it claims is the world's first open source-based, enterprise-class Big Data product suite. Core components of the Pivotal Big Data Suite – including world-leading, analytical MPP data warehouse Pivotal Greenplum Database, the …
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Intelligent Buildings and Big Data
This AHR Expo educational presentation will provide an overview of a large collaborative Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA) research project on intelligent buildings and big data. The research looked at big data from a data analytics …
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Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education Event Highlights Big …
"So often, talk about big data in education focuses on generalities and facilitates a surface understanding," says Dr. Rankin. "This presentation shirks that trend by sharing specific information stakeholders need to know – big data aspects that aren't …
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Opera Software's (OPESF) CEO Lars Boilesen on Q4 2014 Results – Earnings …
In terms of operators overall revenue was down by 15% in the quarter our cloud-based data license revenue was down by 16%. ….. And the big reason for that is we have a much more balanced business one thing I pointed out earlier in the presentation is …
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Taylor Swift meets big data: Gogi Gupta works his magic on the music industry
I knew that it was a once-in-a-lifetime audience and that my presentation had to be different. I decided to open with a magic trick. I walked out into this massive ballroom, took the CEO's bottle of water and poured it into a cup. I asked the audience …
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Riding The Big Data Trends With Informatica (INFA)
McKinsey & Co. breathlessly opined in 2011 that "big data will become a key basis for competition, underpinning new waves of productivity growth, innovation and consumer surplus." Certainly the invasion of analytics into many industries is well …
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Exploring Oracle's Big Data Discovery: The Visual Face of Hadoop
Hadoop has continued its growth and become part of the consciousness of decision makers dealing with big data. However, Hadoop is a still too advanced for the typical business user to work with. To help make it easier, Oracle has created Big Data …
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Three Big Data Trends To Watch in 2015
With hundreds of technology firms pursuing the Big Data opportunity, there is certainly a lot of hype. But in my opinion, 2015 will be the year when Big Data makes the transition from hyperbole to productivity in the form of Applied Big Data solutions …
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How to make sure your enterprise is ready for Big Data
Big Data refers to all that data you are collecting internally (e.g., employee card swipes, equipment readings, incoming calls) or that is being collected externally (e.g., cell phone locations, website visits, apps like Waze or Belly), via technology …
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In-Memory Solutions: Confronting the Big Data Challenge
Enterprises are scrambling to come up with ways to scale their infrastructure to meet the demands of Big Data and other high-volume initiatives. Many are turning to the cloud for support, which ultimately puts cloud providers under the gun to enable …
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Trace3 shows Big Data success comes from expertise, not just technology
True enough, Big Data does require hardware and software, but more important is understanding the issues that analytics is trying to address and architecting systems to find and refine data to provide answers to questions. … implementing the right …
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Research and Markets: Strategic Analysis of Big Data in Rapid Transit to 2021
The strategic insight provides an outlook of growth opportunities in the Global rail market for Big Data. Secondary and primary research was conducted, including interviews with suppliers, regulation authorities, and distributors. The study discusses …
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Gut instinct drives more firms than big data analytics
The rise of advanced analytics exerted upon big data stores and the opportunities for software application developers to engineer new 'insight-empowered' applications (and embedded application sub-elements) is taking the IT industry by storm.
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