Don’t Be the Poster Child For the Next Big Data Leak
Early last year hackers exploited vulnerabilities in the IT systems of the nation's second largest health insurer — Anthem — to access massive amounts ...
Microsoft is buying LinkedIn for a whopping $26.2 billion in big data push
On Monday, Microsoft announced that it will be purchasing LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, for $26.2 billion. The all-cash deal will bo ...
Big data is the future: expert
Increasing volume and details of information captured by various organisations, multimedia, social media, and Internet of Things will fuel exponential ...
IBM Launches Hub for Data Scientists to Analyze Big Data using Apache Spark
NOTE FROM BIG COMMUNITY SENIOR JOURNALIST
Here’s one to really get your brain chugging. Especially mouth-watering info for data scientists and a ch ...
Can Web Search Predict Cancer? Promise And Worry Of Big Data And Health
NOTE FROM BIG COMMUNITY SENIOR JOURNALIST
The big question about the big ‘C’. Can it be predicted and can it be cured.
The article succinctly disc ...
Microsoft, Intel Pledge Apache Spark Support: Big Data Roundup
It's Apache Spark time in our Big Data Roundup for the week ending June 12. At the Spark Summit West 2016, vendors big and small made announcements su ...
Big data algorithms can discriminate, and it’s not clear what to do about it
That’s what Brett Goldstein, a former policeman for the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and current Urban Science Fellow at the University of Chicago’ ...
Big data doesn’t mean big intelligence … unless you work at it
Companies are generating more data, and they are holding on to it for longer. However, this data is often then left alone and unused. Research in the ...
