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Big Data Helps Personalize Cancer Treatments

There's a new tool in the fight against cancer and other diseases with a DNA link: big data. Read more…

Five Steps to Drive Big Data Agility

We are in the middle of a big data arms race that will determine the winners and the losers across many aspects of private enterprise and public life. The companies, candidates, and organizations who demonstrate the most agility in adapting to the new big data atmosphere have the best chances of surviving and succeeding in the future. Read more…

States Investing in Big Data Initiatives

Regional competition to take the lead in big data innovation is heating up. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is launching a $3 million open cloud project aimed at creating a public cloud-computing infrastructure that could be used to boost university and industry big data efforts. Read more…

Radoop: A Predictive Analytic Alternative to R on Hadoop

The Hungarian firm Radoop today unveiled the second version of its eponymous product, which integrates Rapid Miner's data mining and predictive analytic tools atop Apache Hadoop. Radoop 2.0 brings many of the features available in Hadoop version 2, including support for YARN, as well as new operators and easier scoring of models. Read more…

DOD Health Care Competition Attracts Big Data Players

A pending Defense Department solicitation for a massive health care management system is touching off a scramble among federal contractors and medical IT specialists who would have to find ways to apply data analytics techniques to a huge Pentagon health records database. Read more…

Big Data Confusion Drives MongoDB and Cloudera Together

At first glance, the partnership that Cloudera and MongoDB unveiled today is a bit of a head scratcher. While the two companies are arguably the biggest software vendors in the nascent space, they swim in opposite ends of the big data pool. It turns out, that's exactly why the companies felt they needed to work together. Read more…

How Big Data Can Help the Sick and Poor

We often hear how companies are using big data to improve customer service, reduce risk, and ultimately make more money. That's all well and good, but how it's refreshing to hear how humanitarian groups are using the same big data sources, tools, and professionals to assist sick, poor, at-risk, and war-weary people around the world. Read more…

Big Data Gives Peace a Chance

As the amount of data derived via everything from social media to satellite surveillance soars, policy makers are beginning to take a closer look at big data as another tool in peace-keeping and disaster response. Read more…

Farmers Plant for Hyper-Local Forecasts with IBM’s ‘Deep Thunder’

In the heat of the Georgia summer, farmers' fortunes live and die by the weather. A farmer who correctly bets on a pop-up thunderstorm can save thousands of dollars in water, chemical, and labor costs. But bet wrongly, and his entire crop can perish. Now a select group of farmers in the state are placing their bets on big data and "hyper-local" weather forecasting with IBM and its Deep Thunder supercomputer. Read more…

Next-Generation DNA Sequencing Performance at Scale

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