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by Angela Guess Steve Jones of Dow Jones Newswires reports, “As the blizzard dubbed ‘Nemo’ by The Weather Channel dumped record amounts of snow on the Northeast, the operator at the television network was dealing with a blizzard of another sort: data. Daily, 20 terabytes of temperature readings, wind speeds, barometric pressure, satellite images...
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by Angela Guess Neil Capel of Wired reports, “Marketing leaders today are inundated with talk of Big Data. While loaded with promise, the reality of Big Data is often overwhelming, complex, and stagnant. As Wikipedia tells us, the challenges of Big Data include capture, curation, storage, search, sharing, analysis and visualization. And even as CMOs...
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by Angela Guess Katharine Gammon of EarthZine reports, “An avalanche of big data has descended on the field of Earth sciences, and researchers are increasingly turning to novel ways of integrating, assimilating and interpreting those data to better understand the field. EarthCube — described as a cyber-infrastructure for the next generation of geoscience — is...
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by Angela Guess Tom Simonite of the MIT Technology Review recently discussed a new software that uses Big Data to predict tomorrow’s news. He writes, “Researchers have created software that predicts when and where disease outbreaks might occur based on two decades of New York Times articles and other online data. The research comes from Microsoft...
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by Angela Guess Samuel Arbesman of Wired recently argued for less of an emphasis on Big Data and more investment in what he calls “Long Data.” Arbesman writes, “Our species can’t seem to escape big data. We have more data inputs, storage, and computing resources than ever, so Homo sapiens naturally does what it has always...
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by Angela Guess David Linthicum of Health Data Management reports, “The hype around the use of Big Data analytics would lead many to believe that we should be able to understand all things about anything, within any business, as deep or as shallow as we want to go. The reality is that most health...
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by Angela Guess Scott Brinker of Search Engine Land recently argued that in order to fully take advantage of Big Data, the CMO must shift marketing culture toward “big testing.” He writes, ” For years, testing and optimization have been niche practices in the marketing department. A/B testing with a few direct mail pieces...
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by Angela Guess Adaptive Computing has announced “two significant awards recently presented to Adaptive customers. Titan, the supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), was declared the world’s fastest in the latest semiannualTOP500 list, securing the No. 1 position. In addition, the Beacon system at the University of Tennessee National Institute for Computational Sciences...
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by Angela Guess IBM yesterday announced that “it will provide a modified version of an IBM Watson system to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, making it the first university to receive such a system. The arrival of the Watson system will enable new leading-edge research at Rensselaer, and afford faculty and students an opportunity to find...
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Big Challenges in Data Modeling: Data Modeling is Dead! Long Live Data Modeling! from DATAVERSITY To view the few slides associated with this discussion, click HERE. This Month’s Topic Focus: Data Modeling is Dead, Long Live Data Modeling DON’T MISS! Special blog post written by Karen Lopez in follow-up to this webinar: 7...
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