There’s a ‘perfect storm’ at the heart of big data
The personalisation revolution is in full swing. Mass advertising is dead… almost. There may still be plenty of commercials aimed at anyone who happen ...
Livy To Make Spark Consumption Easy
Microsoft together with Cloudera, recently announced an open source project to reduce the burden on developers leveraging on Spark. The open source pr ...
MapR Spyglass Initiative Eases Big Data Management
Hadoop distribution company MapR is rolling out a new management capability to help enterprises get a handle on their big data deployments. Designed t ...
Imperial College AHSC Seminar Series kicks off with big data and healthcare
This July, the Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) launches its seminar series with an event on how big data is changing healthcare ...
Partners wrangling solution to big data drag
Big data projects can frustrate end users thanks to an often slow time to value. Channel partners, meanwhile, may enjoy business from consulting aroun ...
Pharmacy Managers Unleash Big Data
OptumRx was doing a routine analysis of a client’s prescription-drug claims when it noticed something odd. The company’s spending on acne medicine see ...
UK firms lagging other countries in use of big data
Businesses are failing to make the most of big data despite technological advances, according to accountancy giant PwC.
Research has shown the UK t ...
Big data in Excel? ‘Bad idea!’ IBM’s top tips on managing analytics projects
Take a good look at Spark, don't overcopy data and, for goodness sake, don't use Microsoft Excel. This was just some of the advice offered by Janis La ...
