Obama, NIH Announce Big Data Gathering Push for Precision Medicine

One could be forgiven for experiencing a bit of hopeful, skepticism in response to U.S. President Barack Obama Administration’s statement in May regarding re-energizing the “War Against Cancer.” The war against can Read more…

Why Winning Politics Is Now Tied to Big Data Analytics

One of the storylines in this year's presidential election is how both major political parties are using big data analytics to inform their decisions and try to get ahead. But what you may not realize is how pervasive bi Read more…

Will Obama’s Plan to Use Big Data to Reduce College Costs Work?

No stranger to the benefits of big data analytics, the Whitehouse recently announced a plan aimed at using big data to create market aids targeted to help students to be better informed shoppers of colleges and universities. The plan aims to reform the higher education, and how it gets funded. Will it work? Read more…

Obama Big Data Team Reforms as Civis Analytics

Backed by Google's Eric Schmidt, the analytic team known during the Obama 2012 re-election campaign as "the Cave" is regrouping and incorporating as Civis Analytics. The company aims to bring its analytics expertise to companies, organizations, and campaigns looking to leverage their data for better outcomes. Read more…

Big Data Assists Obama Win

According to Obama campaign manager Jim Messina, they felt their data operation was one of their strongest advantages over the Romney campaign. As such they implemented drastic measures to ensure its secrecy, including placing it under media embargo until after election results were released and having the data team work in a windowless room separate from the rest of the campaign. Read more…

Data Exchange Pushes Insourcing

Looking to buck the status quo of moving manufacturing jobs off Western soil, a new initiative calls on supercomputing and big data to drive manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. via the orchestration of a few key efforts on the part of.... Read more…