News Archive
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...
Actian Acquires ParAccel
After broadening its offering last week with the acquisition of Pervasive Software for $161.9 million, data management company, Actian, has acquired high performance analytics company ParAccel. Read more...
IBM Sends Big Data to the Front Lines
IBM is throwing a “Big Data Event” on April 30, and the effort to promote it is already in full force. The company has taken a special interest in big data over the last couple of years, summarizing their efforts in a video on next week’s event. Read more...
A Gateway to Unstructured Data
The ability to access the recent explosion of unstructured data, in the forms of social media data as well as video and audio files, can be limited. SGI, with their planned release of the InfinteStorage Gateway on June 15, hopes to quicken that access, with the goal being to provide a single universal place from which to draw all sorts of media types and files. Read more...
Implementing an On Demand Data Center
As the data processing and storage needs change over time for businesses, so too must the nature of their data centers. As such, Jon Hudson and Pete Moyer of the Brocade Global Solutions Architecture Team say they are working toward an on-demand, faster and more responsive data center. Read more...
