News Archive
Biotech Gets a Boost With New UK Big Data Institute
Big data in biotech got a big boost this month when a partnership between the UK government and Chinese philanthropist Li Ka-Shing converged to drop £30 million on the University of Oxford to fund the creation of the Big Data Institute at the Li Ka Shing Center for Health Information and Discovery.Read more...
Data-driven Commuting for Allergy Relief
Allergy sufferers find few things to take relief in when pollen season is upon us, but the age of data may help turn things around. Researchers at Intel Labs are demonstrating that in the age of open data access and mobile devices, solutions that we may never have dreamed of before can become a reality. Read more...
When Big Data and Art Collide
With so many open data initiatives popping up around the world, artists have a new medium to integrate into their canvasses. UK’s Open Data Institute (ODI),have combined data and art to create what some might consider thoughtful pieces.Read more...
Can Big Data Help Predict Tornadoes?
For those of us whose lives orbit the big data world, we hear a lot of hype about the wonders of all this data. Naturally when an event like this week's massive tornado in Oklahoma happens, we are left to wonder if big data has the power to provide more warning, and get more people out of harm’s way before the event strikes.Read more...
Mozart Meets MapReduce
Big data has been around since the beginning of time, says Thomas Paulmichl, founder and CEO of Sigmaspecto, who says that what has changed is how we process the information. In a talk during Big Data Week, Paulmichl encouraged people to open up their perspective on what big data is, and how it can be applied.Read more...
Big Data Week Demonstrates Big Energy in Big Data
Big data week took place last month with events happening around the world. From London to LA, meet-ups, conferences, and webinars took place to ask the questions surrounding what is big data, how can it be harnessed, and what is its future. Read more...
Television Ratings Company Moves on Analytics
As a television ratings measurement company, Rentrak collects a massive amount of granular information on television viewer habits for all 210 of America’s media markets, incorporating information from over 24 million televisions. The company says it's moved on an analytics platform to help manage their discovery.Read more...
Taming the Ocean (literally) of Big Data
The ocean covers approximately 139 million square miles (or 361 million square kilometers) of the Earth’s surface. That’s approximately 70% of the total surface area of the Earth, and it represents an enormous opportunity (and challenge) for data collection. OneOcean aims to harness the data of the world's seas.Read more...
Foreman: Don't Forget the "What" and "Why" in Big Data
Data scientist John Foreman, says in big data we've forgotten the "what" and the "why" and jumped straight to the "how." He discusses why the exciting part of any big data project should be the business that's being done, and not necessarily the technology that enables it.Read more...
Nate Silver Warns Against Big Data Assumptions
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...
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