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Data ‘Exhaust’ Leads to Ambient Intelligence, Microsoft CEO Says

Microsoft aims to help customers take the "data exhaust" that flows from ubiquitous computing and turn it into ambient intelligence, Microsoft's new CEO Satya Nadella said today in a webcast on the company's big data strategy. Read more…

Insurers Begin to Embrace Big Data

Insurers and other managers of risk are increasingly relying on big data techniques to get a handle on internal customer data and trends as well as third-party data that can be leveraged to guide business strategies and investments. Read more…

How Fast Data is Driving Analytics on the IoT Superhighway

The promise of big data is morphing into the fast data opportunity. Unless you have the capability to respond to the Internet of Things and the trillions of data points generated by smartphones, sensors, and social media, the business opportunities of fast data can pass you by. Read more…

Fast Database Deal Seeks to Squeeze Revenue From Real-Time Analysis

A speedy operational database integrated with a real-time analytics platform widely used by telecommunications service providers could help carriers extract information about millions of mobile subscribers, then monetize data through revenue generators like contextual advertising. Read more…

Medicare Data Dump Prompts Deep Analysis

The Obama administration's decision to release a huge volume of data on Medicare payments to physicians provides a rare look at how payments are unevenly distributed among the nation's doctors. Read more…

A Prediction Machine Powered by Big Social Data

What if you had a machine that could predict what people will be talking about on the Internet over the next three days. How would you use that information? The folks at Blab say they have created such a machine, and the way its customers are using it might surprise you. Read more…

Data Analytics Used To ID At-Risk Heart Patients

A pilot project using predictive modeling of data, some of it "unstructured," in electronic medical records helped identify thousands of patients in a Virginia health network at risk for developing heart failure. Read more…

Faceboook Gets Smarter with Graph Engine Optimization

Last fall, the folks in Facebook's engineering team talked about how they employed the Apache Giraph engine to build a graph on its Hadoop platform that can host more than a trillion edges. While the Graph Search engine is capable of massive graphing tasks, there were some workloads that remained outside the company's technical capabilities--until now. Read more…

Data Analytics Coming to the Smart Grid

The IQ of the smart grid rose this week with the acquisition of a leading provider of data analytics to utilities by green technology specialist Sensus. Read more…

Big Data University Programs Get Real

The sky-high demand for data scientists is driving universities and software companies to launch new educational and certification programs. What's different about the programs recently launched by the University of Southern California, Stanford University, Colorado Technical University, and Cloudera is the focus on giving people real-world business skills, such as creating big data business strategies in financial services or detecting fraud in Medicare data. Read more…

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