The general topic of data science has intrigued me for quite some time, but I've had very few chances to talk to people actually in the field -- i.e., those who are turning theory into practice.
Ben Hecht | Posted 05.17.2012
In this early stage of innovating with Big Data in cities, the challenge is not how to do something with nothing but how to do anything with a lot.
Ken Bisconti | Posted 05.01.2012
There's valuable content in those emails, documents, correspondents, statements, videos and blogs. The key is to find it, make it accessible, and shar...
Rosina Samadani | Posted 06.03.2012
Next week, 1,200 innovators, entrepreneurs, industry and government stakeholders, artists, and health care practitioners will attend the annual TEDMED conference in Washington, D.C.
Steve Hamm | Posted 05.29.2012
This is the latest in an occasional series of posts about A New Era of Computing. IBM envisions a monumental shift over the coming years: computing wi...
Posted 03.19.2012
Via IBM... "The analytics revolution is here. With the increasing pressure to do more with less and the emergence of Big Data, more and more organi...
Christian Olsen | Posted 05.13.2012
Companies don't need to ask questions to the outside world or infer possible responses through educated guessing based on past behaviors. All a company needs to do now is listen.
Pedro L. Rodriguez | Posted 05.12.2012
Data represents a "societal nervous system," which provides information that we are either consciously or subconsciously aware of. The analysis of that data, who utilizes it, and for which purposes, determines its usefulness.
Pedro L. Rodriguez | Posted 05.09.2012
Empty lots have been transformed into wet party venues and "brand experience" sites where Festival goers will network and interact with products from companies big and small.
Keya Dannenbaum | Posted 05.06.2012
Google can now combine what they learn about you from across their different products. Never slow to early-adopt when it comes to technology, the Obama campaign is endeavoring to do the same thing in the political space.
Reuters | Posted 02.23.2012
By Sarah McBride SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When Jason Goldberg set out to raise a new round of funding for his flash sales site Fab.com, he dispens...
Keya Dannenbaum | Posted 04.09.2012
If 2012 is the year of the big data, and data is power, and this power is wielded with such dramatic asymmetry, how is our electoral and governance process still one that can be legitimately described as by the people, of the people and for the people?
Janet Dillione | Posted 04.01.2012
The adoption of healthcare IT as a means to improve clinical workflow processes and ultimately to improve the delivery of patient care has accelerated...
W. David Stephenson | Posted 04.01.2012
I think this new streetlamp-on-steroids may not only be very important in its own right, but also as a precursor to a wide range of Internet-enabled devices that meet multiple needs because they are "smart" and networked.
Frédéric Véron | Posted 03.13.2012
Most financial firms are in the beginning stages of data reform, and it's important to remember that this is new for most of us. This is a monumental challenge that will take time and resources, but the industry is heading in the right direction.
Stephen W.T. O'Keeffe | Posted 03.12.2012
Brace yourself -- Big Data is the new IT buzz phrase coming to the Beltway. So, what is Big Data and why should we care?
Steve Hamby | Posted 01.22.2012
Big Data continues to grow, but semantic technologies provide the needed check points to properly index vital information in methods that imitate the way humans think.
Arnal Dayaratna | Posted 01.15.2012
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the Beta launch of Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large (CC2), a supercomputer on its EC2 cloud infrastructure that r...
Arnal Dayaratna | Posted 01.09.2012
Cloudera's announcement of its Series D funding and partnership with NetApp came on the eve of Hadoop World 2011, the world's largest conference of Hadoop practitioners.
Arnal Dayaratna | Posted 12.25.2011
On Monday, IBM announced the release of the Infosphere BigInsights application for analyzing massive volumes of structured and unstructured data on it...
Posted 11.20.2011
At IBM's THINK Forum, Inhi Cho Suh, VP of Product Management at IBM, discusses challenges facing modern leaders around technology, big data and data m...
John Henry Clippinger | Posted 07.16.2011
Any expectation of privacy as an absence of data collection is unrealistic. It is impossible to hide from "Big Data." It cannot be eliminated. But it can be tamed and rendered trustworthy.
Alexander Howard | Posted 06.14.2011
The institutions that preserve cultural memory are becoming even more important. The Smithsonian Institute is profoundly engaged in capturing our culture's digital transition.
Scott Yara | Posted 05.25.2011
The potential impact of "data computing" cannot be overstated. Companies' ability to make data-driven decisions in real time is a trend that "has the potential to drive a radical transformation in research, innovation, and marketing."
Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011
What Obama is facing, which other presidents have not, is moment-by-moment online documentation of the distance between his words and his actions by issue advocates on his own side.
Phil Simon | Posted 05.24.2012