Tag: sensor
Earthquake Science Makes Headway in Big Data Era
The magnitude 6.7 earthquake that hit the Los Angeles area 20 years ago today surprised everybody. Not because temblors aren’t a regular occurrence in fault-riddled Southern California. But because the particular fault that triggered the quake was hidden and had not been identified. The chances of that occurring today are slim, thanks in part to much better instrumentation and data collection. 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…
The Week in Big Data Research
Unlike last week, the news from the MapReduce and Hadoop side is slim. Instead, the most interesting items we were able to discover deal with approaches to meshing, integrating and drilling down through big data to achieve specific organizational, functional and visual goals to help make sense of it. Read more…