Improving Public Health Depends on Connectivity
In this article Infosys' Ashish Goel looks at the growing trend of 'coopetition' in the life sciences industry, and the implications this will have in terms of both managing and protecting the vast amount of data being shared by pharmaceutical companies
The Big Question About Big Data
“Big data” was the buzzword of 2012 – the year was awash with information, comment and discussion about the topic. As we enter 2013, it’s time for the talking to make way for action. Despite the hype and column inches, however, many businesses do not know what first steps they should take so that they can manage and use big data efficiently to gain an information advantage.
Big Data Week Atlanta – Growing a community around innovation
Born out of a desire to build community around the diverse challenges of Big Data, Atlanta’s tech community already excels at exploring, sharing, and learning with one another. And now, with the advent of Big Data Week, the city will have the opportunity to prove it’s as serious a Silicon Valley in terms of technology.
Visualizing.org partner with Big Data Week
We’re thrilled to partner again for this year’s Big Data Week. From April 22-28, data designers, data scientists, data technologists and others invested in data will come together for this global festival of 200+ meetups in 18+ cities around the world.
Big Data in Kuala Lumpur: deep-dive into stakeholder impacts
Big Data has the potential to have an enduring impact on every part of society, but the devil is in the details. How will various groups be affected? Will some benefit more than others? These questions brought together professionals from diverse sectors, including technology, business, government and education during an interactive workshop in Kuala Lumpur. Here we summarise the findings of the delegates, as an Asian perspective on the broader impacts of Big Data.
Big Data Week Expands Global Presence to Include Atlanta, Partners with Big Data Analytics Startup Emcien to Drive Citywide Engagement
ATLANTA, GA—Emcien Corp., a pioneer in automatic pattern detection for Big Data, announced today its partnership with Big Data Week, a global effort dedicated to connecting a number of cities including Barcelona, Moscow and Shanghai through locally hosted meetups, events, networking functions, demos, debates, hackathons and more. This partnership ensures that Atlanta-based organizations can take part in the movement by hosting individual functions throughout the city during the week, which takes place on April 22-28, 2013. Local Big Data startup Emcien was selected to drive the message and raise awareness in Atlanta.
Our Planet is Growing a Nervous System
My ten year old son recently heard me speaking on the phone about this project and asked me what Big Data is. I thought for a minute and then said, “Imagine if the whole human race had been looking through one eye for all of our existence and, all of a sudden, scientists gave us the ability to open up a second eye. You’re not just getting more information, more data; you’re literally getting a whole new dimension. You’re getting depth and perspective, 3D vision. That’s what Big Data is, not simply more information but a new way to see or extract meaning from a sea of information. Simply put, Big Data is giving us a brand new way to see things.
The Value in Unstructured Data
Big Data is the biggest trend in IT right now, however the term is loosely thrown around and becoming increasingly ambiguous. Everyone seems to be doing some sort of “Big Data” nowadays, which can cause great confusion among organizations with actual Big Data needs. We at IKANOW focus on unstructured data analytics, and may be a little bias, but believe it is an essential part of any Big Data offering. One question we hear all the time is “what’s the business value in unstructured data?” Occasionally, we also receive raised eyebrows and blank stares when referring to unstructured data. To help answer this question and provide clarity about unstructured data, let’s take a look at the differences between structured and unstructured, and how it all relates to Big Data and the business value.
Getting Creative with Big Data and Google Apps
Big data isn’t just for those who can wrangle Hadoop or wrestle with R. Service interfaces (APIs) make it easy for even the relative novice explorer some creative solutions. Working for an innovation centre I often find the need to quickly glue together service APIs to gain some insight from the data flowing around our sector. More often than not I turn to Google Sheets (Spreadsheets) and Google Apps Script to rapidly develop dashboards I can share with colleagues. It’s reassuring to see I’m not the only one who uses this approach.