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by Angela Guess A new article reports that Harvard Medical School is analyzing 20 years worth of medical records to determine the risks and effectiveness of a number of drugs. The article states, “Not to take anything away from the innovation and value of strictly commercial uses of big data, but Harvard’s work holds...
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by Angela Guess A recent interview with Gnip CEO Jud Valeski discusses the challenges Gnip faces as the official commercial provider of the Twitter activity stream, a stream that produces about 155 million tweets a day. When asked about the architectural challenges of running all of that real-time data through the internet, Valeski responded,...
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by Angela Guess A new article reports “Overlaying the power grid with a communications and control network will provide utilities with terrific new business capabilities. The Smart Grid figures to enable utilities to more effectively offset service theft, to monitor for and blunt the impact of outages, to better foresee and accommodate spikes in...
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by Angela Guess Google recently decided to end two of its Big Data projects, Google Health and PowerMeter. According to the article, “PowerMeter, which lets people monitor their energy contrast usage online, was available to users in the UK and the US. Google Health — an opt-in personal health record aggregator — was by...
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by Angela Guess Chris Testa, Director of Engineering at Adly recently shared the story of How Hollywood Learned to Love the Semantic Web at SemTech 2011. He shared the story behind the presentation in a recent article. Testa began, “In late 2010, we at Adly had hit a scalability wall. We already had 1,000...
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by Angela Guess According to a recent article, “The U.S. needs to develop a doctrine to deal with the growing threat of cyberattacks in both the public and private sector, former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff said today. Speaking at a New York luncheon hosted by Big Data analytics company Opera Solutions, Chertoff...
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by Angela Guess A recent article notes, “The Knight Foundation, a non-profit entity that is one of the biggest funders of media-related projects in the United States… announced the winners of its annual $4.7-million News Challenge on Wednesday. There’s s a theme running through most of the winners: namely, data as journalism. Just as...
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by Angela Guess Joe McKendrick recently reported the findings of a new survey on unstructured data. McKendrick writes, “As part of my work with Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, Inc., I helped conduct a new survey that finds unstructured data is growing at a faster clip than relational data — driving the...
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PowerPoint Author: Suzanne Acar, DATA.gov, U.S. Federal Data Architecture Subcommittee (DAS) PowerPoint Agenda: The Open and Transparent Government Directive Features of Data.gov What Others are Doing What the Public is saying What’s Next Summary
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by Angela Guess A report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has concluded that “every federal agency needs to have a ‘Big Data’ strategy.” According to the article, “The report, ‘Designing a Digital Future,’ adds that ‘the collection, management and analysis of data is a fast-growing concern of NIT...
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