Category Archives: Big Data Analytics
Do You Know Where Your Data Is and Who Reads It? Varonis Knows
Edward Snowden’s job responsibilities at the NSA included accessing a file-sharing section of the agency’s intranet and manually moving especially sensitive documents to a more secure location. This is how Lonny Anderson, the NSA’s chief technology officer, explained to NPR last month … Continue reading
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Big Data Is Neither An Atomic Bomb Nor A Holy Grail
Albert-László Barabási, a physicist and well-known expert in network analysis, published last week an op-ed calling for his fellow scientists to spearhead “the ethical use of big data.” Barabási accuses the NSA of breaking “the traditional model governing the bond between science … Continue reading
MIT’s Sandy Pentland on the Decade of Big Data (Video)
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Big Data Observations: Definitions, Definitions
“…there’s lots of focus on the ‘big’ aspect of data. It sometimes gives us the image of truckloads of data being heaped upon existing truckloads somewhere up in the cloud, creating a virtual mountain so immense it makes Everest look … Continue reading
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Data Science in Agriculture (Infographic)
Source: Monsanto
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The Where, Why, and How of Big Data Initiatives (Infographic)
Courtesy of: The Emerging Big Returns on Big Data, A TCS 2013 Global Trend Study
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7 Observations from the Big Data Innovation Summit
The Innovation Enterprise events group put together recently the second annual Big Data Innovation Summit in Boston. Here are a few of the highlights of the first day: Banana production in Central America is twice the rate of trash production in New … Continue reading
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Strata Rx 2013: Big Data in Healthcare (Video)
I look forward to reporting from the Strata Rx 2013 conference in Boston later this week. Here is the co-chair of the event, Colin Hill of GNS Healthcare, taking to Donald Berwick, MD on the role of data in health … Continue reading
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From the Great Minds Think Alike Files: On Big Data Effectiveness
“More data does not necessarily mean better information… Of course, we need organizations like the CIA, the NSA, the NRO and all the rest. Intelligence is a vital component of national security, and can be invaluable in both wartime and peacetime. … Continue reading
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SAS CTO on Big Data and Big Compute
“One of my biggest challenges,” Keith Collins told me recently, “is helping SAS understand how to communicate to IT organizations. We present workloads which look odd and different. IT does not know how to have an SLA (Service Level Agreement) around them. … Continue reading
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