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Tag: Internet of Things

Wearables: The Latest Big Data Fashion Accessories

A lot of energy has been spent the last few days on the potential for so-called "wearable" computers to provide another large injection of information into our big data-crunching lives. Intel and other vendors unveiled numerous new wearables at CES this week that promise new possibilities for extracting personal information from people as they move about the physical world. The problem is: there's no "there" there, at least not yet. Read more…

Big Data’s Role in Civilization 3.0

If you've suspected that big data and mobile technologies have put us on the cusp of a revolutionary period for humanity, one marked by the merging of physical and digital worlds and a renewed focus on individuals and their relationship with businesses via data, then you've hit on what TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé calls Civilization 3.0 and what Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs calls the Digital Sixth Sense. Read more…

Gartner: Internet of Things Plus Big Data Transforming the World

Big data and the Internet of Things are taking center stage this week at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2013 in Orlando, Florida, where Gartner is saying that the IT industry is becoming fully immersed in the digital industrial economy. Read more…

HP Diving Deeper into R Parallelization

Despite R’s popularity as a statistical tool, its single-threaded nature might be a short-coming in scaling its use as a tool for big data applications. Not if they can help it, says HP. Read more…

GE Plugs Second Internet

By spending a billion and a half dollars over the next three years in technological research and development, GE is hoping to land in the forefront of companies hoping to use analytics predictively and reactively. A significant portion of that R&D investment will go to a new software center in San Ramon, California, where machine-learning researcher Amil Varma is working on, among other things, determining which data is valuable regarding the maintenance of airplane engines. Read more…

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