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Can Big Data Deliver on the Huge Expectations of Precision Medicine?

Big data can do a lot of things. But can it allow doctors to create drugs that are tailor-made to your genes, reduce the cost of healthcare for a billion people, and let us all live to 150? Only time will tell, but there Read more…

Unlocking Retail’s Big Data Opportunity

Walmart remains the world's largest company by revenue and the retail sector employs more people in the U.S. than any other sector outside of healthcare. While the 2015 holiday season was considered a lackluster one, the Read more…

Data Mining Digs Deep to Protect Coalminers

In a big data competition that gives new meaning to "data mining," a team of machine learning experts provided the most accurate predictions about possible seismic activity in active coalmines. The predictions could even Read more…

Apache Spark Surrounded By Cloud Data Services at IBM

IBM has made no secret about its admiration for Apache Spark, which it sees as the future for in-memory analytics. Today the IT giant unveiled a host of new cloud-based data services that bolsters its hosted Apache Spark Read more…

Fleet Manager Leverages Video Analytics

The management of transportation fleets is increasingly viewed as an ideal fit for big data tools like predictive analytics that can be used to cut costs and increase safety. A key hurdle to wider implementation is that Read more…

Is 2016 the Beginning of the End for Big Data?

Part of my job as managing editor of Datanami is to be a hype buster. Over the past five years, the amount of hoopla and hysteria over big data has reached epic proportions at times. That's why some in the industry are c Read more…

Analytics Comes to the Smart Grid

As more renewable energy sources come online, energy storage has grown in importance, especially when the sun sets each day and the wind stops blowing. Predictive analytics and control software are now being applied to t Read more…

Startup to Offer Neural Network Training in the Cloud

One of the most time-consuming components of using deep neural networks is training the algorithms to do their jobs. It can often take weeks to train or re-train the network--and that's after you set it up. A startup cal Read more…

Mining Military Data to Predict Violent Offenders

Researchers at Harvard University's medical school and other institutions studying post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health issues plaguing American war veterans report they have developed an "actuarial mod Read more…

CMU and Boeing Establish Aerospace Data Analytics Lab

Carnegie Mellon University and The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) announced plans this week to establish the Boeing/Carnegie Mellon Aerospace Data Analytics Lab, a new academic research initiative that will leverage the univ Read more…

Predictive Analytics, Visualization Enlisted in Crime Fight

A visualization tool and predictive analytics package targeting law enforcement and public safety applications is said to be the first tool of its kind to combine real-time social media and Internet data feeds to help pr Read more…

Cast Your Models Into Data Streams and Take Advantage of the IoT

Using data in real-time used to be a challenge. Lengthy extraction, transformation and loading processes make analyzing data an activity more akin to glancing in a rearview window than reading road signs as you pass. And Read more…

Corralling VM Complexity with Machine Learning

The widespread use of virtual machines (VMs) makes tracing performance problems in today's enterprise applications a daunting task. Traditional tools designed to track slowdowns on physical hardware are no match for toda Read more…

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…

Software AG Platform Targets Predictive Analytics

Software AG is adding high-end predictive analytics tools to its Digital Business Platform as it looks to extend the reach of the flagship analytics platform across retail, manufacturing, financial services and other ind Read more…

A Tournament of Machine Learning Champions

Behind today's powerful predictive applications are machine learning models that identify patterns in the data. But getting these models trained and tuned is not an easy process. Analytics giant SAS thinks it has a solut Read more…

Accenture Analytics Apps Target ‘Domain Experts’

Among the largest consumers of data analytics is the financial services sector. As vendors tout new analytics platforms for the masses that push tools deeper into organizations and beyond data scientists, even management Read more…

IBM Pre-Fab Analytics Targets Vertical Markets

IBM is retargeting retailers, banks, telecommunications carriers and the energy sector with a package of 20 "pre-built" predictive analytics capabilities tailored to specific industry requirements. The vertical analytics Read more…

Beyond Social: How Text Analytics Can Improve Business

There's been a lot of time and attention dedicated to mining social media with big data techniques. With more than 400 million tweets a day, you're almost certain to find a trending Twitter topic that's relevant to you. Read more…

What Police Can Learn from Deep Learning

Police departments are increasingly turning to predictive analytics to help them fight crime, and the early returns are positive, with double-digit drops in crime rates reported in many cities. So what's next? According Read more…

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