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Turning Big Data Into Information with High-Performance Analytics

Turning Big Data Into Information with High-Performance Analytics

June 17, 2013 | Paul Kent, Radhika Kulkarni, and Udo Sglavo

So your organization is coming to grips with big data - what's next? Is the enterprise IT department merely an episode of TV’s “Hoarders” waiting to happen – or will we actually find ways to locate the information of strategic value that is getting buried deeper and deeper in our mountains of data? Quite simply: What are we going to do with all of this data?Read more...

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Big Data Analytics Give Electoral Edge

Big Data Analytics Give Electoral Edge

June 7, 2013

There's an old saying that politics is the art of the personal. Barack Obama's 2012 presidential campaign may not have proven that saying moot, but its deep reliance on big data analytics put a fascinating new twist on it, and changed forever how major political campaigns will be fought and won going forward.Read more...

Nate Silver Warns Against Big Data Assumptions

Nate Silver Warns Against Big Data Assumptions

May 10, 2013

While there are many uses today for big data, the general principle is thus: more data equals bigger sample sizes from which more accurate representations can be drawn. However, noted statistically inclined prognosticator Nate Silver warned at the RMS Exceedance Conference in Boston this week that an over-abundance of data can be dangerous and counter-productive if managed improperly. Read more...

Big Data's Role in Detecting Mail Fraud

Big Data's Role in Detecting Mail Fraud

May 2, 2013

The United States Postal Service serves the mailboxes of over 300 million homes and businesses in the United States. Delivering mail from point A to point B becomes a huge logistical problem when those points number in the hundreds of millions. As such, the USPS is doing as much as possible to incorporate supercomputing and big data analytics in both their logistical and fraud detection operations, as discussed by USPS Program Manager Scot Atkins.Read more...

The Intersection of Public Policy and Big Data

The Intersection of Public Policy and Big Data

June 13, 2013

When big data collides with big government, the sparks can fly, as evident by last week's disclosure of the NSA's massive data collection and mining operation, dubbed PRISM. But governments can also use big data to positively impact the lives of its citizens, as Google senior policy analyst Jess Hemerly recently explained.Read more...

Data Aggregation in the Public Sector

Data Aggregation in the Public Sector

April 23, 2013

Bob Flores, Founder of Applicology Incorporated and former Chief Technology Officer of the CIA, shared his views on how the public sector is dealing with the big data deluge, particularly with regard to how the intelligence community collects and aggregates data in a video produced by MarkLogic.Read more...

IRS to Utilize Big Data to Improve Returns

IRS to Utilize Big Data to Improve Returns

April 15, 2013

Today, April 15, 2013, is tax day in the United States. Millions of Americans are assuredly scrambling to file their returns today and most will be doing so electronically. Specifically, the IRS expects 80 percent of tax returns, or 250 million, to be filed online. That represents a significant big data problem in identifying the veracity of said filings. Read more...

Government: This Just In

SAP Expands Aerospace & Defense Portfolio

May 1, 2013

SAP AG announced expansions to the SAP for Aerospace & Defense (SAP for A&D) solution portfolio.Read more...

IU Experts Play Key Role in NASA's Operation IceBridge

May 2, 2013

Experts from Indiana University played a role in NASA's Operation IceBridge mission's success.Read more...

Red Hat Completes FIPS 140-2 Certifications from NIST

April 23, 2013

Red Hat announced the completion of seven FIPS 140-2 certifications from the U.S. government’s NIST.Read more...

 
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