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by Angela Guess Mike Ashenfelder of the Library of Congress recently discussed how Big Data is spurring the dawn of the “super researcher.” He writes, “In separate ‘big data’ presentations at the Digital Preservation 2012 meeting, Myron Guttmann of the National Science Foundation and Leslie Johnston of the Library of Congress described scenarios that seemed futuristic and fantastic...
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by Angela Guess Alexander Howard has written an article for Slate.com regarding Big Data, open data, and the “data economy.” He writes, “We’re living in the exabyte age, where the actions of billions of humans using the Web and their mobile devices are creating massive amounts of big data to collect, store, analyze, and put to...
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by Angela Guess Nathan Eddy of eWeek reports, “A Gartner report suggests open data can be more valuable to businesses than collecting big data.” He explains, “Businesses of all sizes continue to struggle to find a solution for dealing with the growing volume of information flowing into their databases—a mountain of files and figures...
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by Angela Guess An article on UN.org highlights the use of Big Data (or the potential uses) at the United Nations. The article begins, “The era of ‘Big Data’ presents the United Nations with an historic opportunity to better support and protect populations through analysis of digital information, according to a new report launched...
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by Angela Guess Mike Wheatley of SiliconAngle reports, “It’s not just big businesses that can benefit from harnessing data to streamline their operations. There’s more potential for big data analysis than simply making big profits – with a little creativity, it can also be used to help save lives, as a number of hospitals...
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by Angela Guess Guardian.co.uk has launched a special London 2012 Olympics website to collect all sorts of data from the upcoming event. Simon Rogers reports, “As soon as the first Olympic events begin in a month’s time, we will be assaulted by data of every kind – results, medal tables, venue details; and that’s...
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by Angela Guess The web has been abuzz with talk of Google’s new Knowledge Graph. Sean Golliher of SemanticWeb.com commented on the news, “For those involved in the Semantic Web, Google’s ‘Knowledge Graph’ is nothing new. After watching the video, and reading through the announcements, the Google engineers are giving the impression, to those...
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by Angela Guess Bruce Upbin of Forbes recently discussed a number of companies that reflect gathered customer data back on their customers, or as he puts it, companies that turn their data inside out. Upbin states, “Some companies are already notable champions of the concept, mostly in the interest of personalization. Netflix, for example,...
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by Angela Guess Quentin Hardy of the New York Times reports, “Harvard is making public the information on more than 12 million books, videos, audio recordings, images, manuscripts, maps, and more things inside its 73 libraries. Harvard can’t put the actual content of much of this material online, owing to intellectual property laws, but...
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by Angela Guess Kaggle, a platform for predictive modeling competitions recently announced that in honor of the their second anniversary, the company is “releasing its first-ever global leaderboard of data scientists. Since its founding in April 2010, the Kaggle community has grown to include more than 33,000 data scientists who compete to develop the...
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