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Ford, HP Analyze Commuting Patterns

American drivers logged a record number of miles in April, Reuters reported this week, citing U.S. government data showing that an increase in road travel over the last year is continuing. The U.S. Federal Highway Adm Read more…

Legacy Systems a Challenge for Big Automakers

Ford Motor Company is making use of big data in many aspects of their operations, but legacy systems present a challenge as the company moves into the new era. Read more…

How Ford is Putting Hadoop Pedal to the Metal

Ford Motor, like any other company at its scale, has been contending with a slew of big data problems--a matter that is being complicated by ever-growing additions to the data feed, from its own internal feeds to the terabytes of vehicle-fed machine data. We talked in depth with Ford's data science lead about the company's tough vendor and technology decisions around Hadoop and where the real value of such.... Read more…

Ford Looks to Hadoop, Innovative Analytics

This week Ford Motor's new head of big data analytics, John Ginder, commented on the potential that lies in untapped and underused sources of data, the tools that they're looking to manage that information, and the immaturity of the current generation of many "big data" technologies, at least for.... Read more…

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