Sample Datasets
Example Datasets All of the datasets that follow are available on the SBP Grand Challenge website: Census Data – The US Census department provides an API to quickly access large volumes of census data....
Tagged: Big Data
Creating opportunities for societal impact using Big Data: The Frankfurt Big Data Lab and ODBMS.org cooperate with the Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology at UC Berkeley
Press Release The Frankfurt Big Data Lab and ODBMS.org cooperate with the Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (CET) at UC Berkeley to enable the creation of project proposals for Big Data for the Common Good. Creating opportunities for societal impact using Big...
Agile Analytics
Agile Analytics By Michael Blaha, — March 2015 We define agile analytics as the iterative and rapid processing of data for decision support. There is minimal upfront investment. Developers instead process source data and...
SQL over Hadoop: Performance isn’t everything…
SQL over Hadoop: Performance isn’t everything… By Simon Harris, performance and quality assurance architect, IBM Using SQL to access and analyze data stored on Hadoop clusters is becoming increasingly popular in today’s IT environments....
Big Data Meets Fine Art
Big Data Meets Fine Art by Thanigai Vellore, Enterprise Architect, Art.com “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together” – This famous quote by Vincent Van Gogh reflects what’s happening at art.com,...
Big Data and Large Numbers of People: the Need for Group Privacy
Big Data and Large Numbers of People: the Need for Group Privacy by Prof. Luciano Floridi, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 1 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS, United Kingdom; luciano.floridi@oii.ox.ac.uk One of the...
China released its first industry-standard big data benchmark suite
China released its first industry-standard big data benchmark suite By Jianfeng Zhan,Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Recently,...
Pivotal For Good with Crisis Text Line: A First Look
Pivotal For Good with Crisis Text Line: A First Look Post by Noelle Sio, DataKind Data Ambassador and Principal Data Scientist at Pivotal Note: This post originally appeared on Pivotal’s blog on January 13 2015. A...
Sharing data to learn about homelessness
Sharing data to learn about homelessness St Mungo’s Broadway Note: This post originally appeared on DataKind’s blog . Question Charities often sit atop a mountain of data. Imagine what we could achieve if social...
Predictive Analytics – A Case For Private Equity?
Predictive Analytics – A Case For Private Equity? By Lutz Finger, LinkedIn To build a data product you need to have the right data. This sounds simple, but it is often forgotten by entrepreneurs...