News Archive
Cloudera Launches Open Source CDH Developer Kit
On Wednesday Night, Cloudera launched its first-ever developer kit aimed at simplifying common tasks and building applications in their CDH Apache Hadoop distribution.Read more...
Using Open Source Data to Identify Security Threats
Open source data, such as social media streams and online forums provide a great tool for security analysts to identify threats and take precautions to thwart them, however with the amount of data that is available, they must turn to the algorithms to do the heavy lifting.Read more...
Bringing Dark Data to Light
One of the chief challenges of big data, especially where established science and research is concerned, is bringing what is called “dark data” – the data that is hidden in tables and texts of the massive stores of scientific journals – to light. A research team is working on this problem combining several research areas into a potentially powerful tool.Read more...
Raising a Pack of Data Scientists
According to the McKinsey Global Institute, by the year 2018 there will exist 190,000 unfilled data scientist positions. North Carolina State University is one of the educational institutions looking to assemble a curriculum and a program that helps fill those jobs. Read more...
Big Data's Role in Detecting Mail Fraud
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...
Examining the Relationship between HIPAA and Healthcare Data
HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was adjusted recently and healthcare data collection initiatives are keen to understand what it means for their efforts. John W. Loonsk, the Chief Medical Information Officer at CGI Federal, examined both the adjustment and the overall impact of big data on medical research. Read more...
Budding Data Scientists Lack Access to Big Datasets
According to Teradata's State of Business Intelligence Survey, the top three challenges in building the data science workforce include access to large data sets, finding students with the pre-requisite skills, and qualified or available faculty.Read more...
Detecting Cancerous RNA Signatures with Big Data
Using big data to push the envelope on the origins of disease, especially as it pertains to breast cancer, is the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC—James), where a team of researchers evaluated the genomes of 466 patients with invasive ductal carcinoma, the most common type of breast cancer. Read more...
Hiring from the Gild
A computer science or IT degree from a reputable university looks great to employers hiring in the big data space. But how well does it serve as a predictive indicator? Gild, a company devoted to optimizing Human Resources and recruiting initiatives, is trying to answer that question through compiling and analyzing big data.Read more...
Predicting Financial Markets with a Google Search Counter
New research out of London corroborates in a simple manner the ability of big data to predict behavior, as it found that if one were to place investments solely based on change of Google search terms over time, one would have made a profit of 326 percent between the years of 2004 and 2011.Read more...
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