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Election 2016: A Rich Opportunity for Data-Centric Storytelling
Get ready to consume some data. If you're following the election today, you're likely to be immersed in it. Thanks to a new generation of interactive data visualization tools, news junkies have powerful new ways to inges Read more…
Smart Billboards Powered by Data Analytics
If you thought it was a coincidence that a digital billboard displayed an advertisement for a handbag you just checked out at a high-end retailer downtown, think again--that digital billboard advertisement was, indeed, m Read more…
A Big Data App to Help You Travel Safer
Let's face it: the world is a dangerous place. From terrorist attacks and earthquakes to outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever and pickpockets, there are a thousand ways for an American to stumble into trouble when travelling a Read more…
How Super Bowl 50 Will Feed Our Super Appetite…for Data
The Super Bowl is a lot of things to a lot of people. It's the championship game for the National Football League, a showcase for clever ads from Madison Avenue, and for the rest of us, an excuse to splurge on food and d Read more…
Automakers Bet Big on Data and Analytics
One of the biggest generators and consumers of data and analytics technology in the coming years may come from a surprising location: your car. From Ford's deal with IBM to German automaker's $2.8-billion deal for a loca Read more…
News In Brief
Google, Chipmaker Collaborate on Deep Learning For Mobile
Google and Movidius, a specialist in low-power machine vision chips, said this week they would collaborate to bring deep learning technology to mobile devices. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) said Wednesday (Jan. 27) it would i 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…
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…
Mapping Startup Leverages Machine Vision
A Swedish mapping startup that uses machine vision to stitch together street-level photos is ramping up a service that uses proprietary algorithms to connect crowd-sourced photos of street scenes "over space and time." Read more…
IBM Buys Weather Company, Forecasts Watson Expansion
IBM, which earlier in the week announced it was launching a new data analytics service with Twitter and the Weather Company, upped the ante on Wednesday (Oct. 28) when it disclosed it would acquire most of the latter's a Read more…
This Just In
May 18, 2021 — Research from Carnegie Mellon University may soon help Twitter run faster and more efficiently.
Juncheng Yang, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science, and Rashmi Vinayak, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, worked with Yao Yue from Twitter to develop Segcache to make better use of DRAM cache. Read more…
May 6, 2021 — By 2050, cities are projected to absorb more than two-thirds of the growth in global population, with 68 percent of the world’s population living in urban areas. Read more…
PHILADELPHIA, May 4, 2021 — Qlik today announced an enhanced mobile analytics experience with Qlik Sense Mobile for SaaS, one of four key features being delivered in Q2 across Qlik’s SaaS data integration and analytics platform. Read more…
SEATTLE, May 3, 2021 — Ookla, the network intelligence company behind both Speedtest and Downdetector, and Mapbox, a premier mapping and location cloud platform for developers, are engaging in a global partnership to create network-aware mapping solutions. Read more…
May 3, 2021 — Oracle Cloud announces a set of new capabilities in Oracle Analytics Cloud to provide all employees —not just data specialists— with easy-to-use, self-service analytics. Read more…