
Start-up senses mood through big data
Joyeeta Das was taking a break from business school classes, enjoying the early morning sunshine in Oxford’s Port Meadows when she had her start-up eu ...

Google’s Machine Learning Buy, Alteryx Updates: Big Data Roundup
Google acquires another machine learning startup, predictive analytics and wearables are driving the continued adoption of electronic health records ( ...

Big Data Is Taking The Fight To The Big ‘C’
The largest ever grant for medical research was recently received by the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla. At a staggering 120 million, the gran ...

These are the six emotional arcs of storytelling, big data study shows
Researchers put 1,737 stories from Project Gutenberg’s fiction collection under the “big data” lens to spot subtle emotional plot patterns called arcs ...

Webtrends Launches Big Data Connector
Webtrends, a leading provider of data, analytics and personalization solutions, today announced the availability of its new Infinity Data Connector™. ...

Obama, NIH Announce Big Data Gathering Push for Precision Medicine
One could be forgiven for experiencing a bit of hopeful, skepticism in response to U.S. President Barack Obama Administration’s statement in May regar ...

IT teams hone Hadoop monitoring, governance to boost big data value
The IT team at Comcast Corp. leaves nothing to chance when it comes to managing the performance of its Hadoop data lake.
The data lake is a big bod ...

Trends in Big Data for SMEs: What Providers Should Know
Henning von Kielpinski, consultant at Consol, a German consulting and software company with offices in five countries, discusses exploding demand for ...