Meet DJ Patil: Obama's Big Data dude
Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Data Policy DJ Patil with his skateboard March 19, 2015. (Photo: Chris Usher for Yahoo News). DJ Patil is still settling into his White House office. It's by far the most prestigious place he's ever worked, but it …
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Big Data: Saving 13000 Lives A Year By Predicting Earthquakes?
Terra Seismic CEO Oleg Elshin told me, “Thanks to our unparalleled satellite Big Data technology, in many cases we can forecast major (magnitude 6+) quakes from one to 30 days before they occur in all key seismic prone countries.” Elshin claims to have …
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U Wisconsin-Madison Project Tackles Big Data Question in Astronomy
An astronomy project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has made inroads on two questions: how to track neutral hydrogen in the "distant" universe and how to scale up the capacity to maintain and manage the data generated through such work.
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