Big Data Takes Turn As Storyteller, Pulls Together Health Narratives
Throughout our lives, without trying, we create our own health narratives.
Comprising doctors’ notes, blood tests, prescriptions, X-rays and hospit ...
Calculating the 4th Big Data “V” — Value
Mention the words “open source” and all kinds ideas probably come to mind such as “free”, “agility”, and “speed”. However, with any IT project, it is ...
Planners, go big: Big data means better decisions on transport, infrastructure
Big data will allow urban and transport planners to consider projects more thoroughly than they could before, as cloud-based computing can be used to ...
How A Converged Architecture Improves Big Data Applications
“You can’t handle the truth.” We all remember Jack Nicholson’s iconic words in A Few Good Men as a seminal moment in pop culture. Yet, that statement ...
Big Data Makes It Easy to Think Globally And Act Locally
Before you leave your house, you check the weather and traffic so you know how to dress and how long it will take you to get where you want to go. Loc ...
Scary and fascinating: The future of big data
It's reasonable to see big data as a revolutionary development in IT and business in general -- but its implications should make us pause for thought. ...
No, Mum, Hackathons Are Not “Illegal”. Here’s A #101 On All Things Hackathon
I may not be the best person to explain what a hackathon is, seeing since I haven’t even been to one (yet). When I hear the term ‘hackathon’, I imagin ...
Big data’s big disappointment: Why AI personalization is pathetic
Big data is the next big thing, but so far all it seems to do is deliver marginally better spam. And by "marginally better" I really mean "no differen ...
