The Truth is Out There
The Truth is Out There By Ken Birman, N. Rama Rao Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University. –January 2015. Up to the present, Big Data has been dominated by a cloud computing model: data...
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The Internet of Everything
The Internet of Everything Business Value of the Next Major Wave of IT Innovation November 2014 Whitepaper , Guidanz Inc © 2014 This paper was developed in collaboration with Cisco Systems The Third Wave of...
Thinking about Visualisation and Design
Thinking about Visualisation and Design by John McAuley, visualization manager at Novartis. When thinking about design, visualisation falls into one of three camps. First, there’s the scientific camp in which visualisation is used to assist in...
Using Big Data approaches in Science
Using Big Data approaches in Science By Kevin Mader of ETH Zurich and 4Quant Introduction Understanding complicated systems requires the ability to freely explore and analyze them. With smaller datasets this can be done in basic tools...
Big Data in Medicine – Big or Dense?
Big Data in Medicine – Big or Dense? Weiqi Wang, PhD; School of Medicine, Stanford University It has been well known that big data should fit in the “3V” model, which is high volume...
Embracing the evolution of Graphs
Embracing the evolution of Graphs by Stephen Dillon, Data Architect, Schneider Electric. –January 2015. Graph database technologies are poised to become even more influential in both the Big Data and Analytics communities. There is...
Big Data and Traditional Data for the United Nations Development Agenda
Big Data and Traditional Data for the United Nations Development Agenda By Sabrina Juran, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) — January 2015. The call from the report http://www.undatarevolution.org/report/ of the Independent Expert Advisory Group to...
REINVENTING SOCIETY IN THE WAKE OF BIG DATA (Video)
REINVENTING SOCIETY IN THE WAKE OF BIG DATA (Video) A Conversation with Alex (Sandy) Pentland [8.30.12] ALEX ‘SANDY’ PENTLAND is a pioneer in big data, computational social science, mobile and health systems, and technology for developing...
Hybrid Transaction and Analytical Processing with NuoDB
Hybrid Transaction and Analytical Processing with NuoDB Technical Whitepaper, NuoDB. Abstract NuoDB is a distributed SQL database management system that provides a simpler, more cost effective, and ultimately higher-scale approach to hybrid transaction and...
Privacy considerations & responsibilities in the era of Big Data & Internet of Things
Privacy considerations & responsibilities in the era of Big Data & Internet of Things by Ramkumar Ravichandran, Director, Analytics, Visa Inc. – January 8, 2015. Over the past few months, I heard so much about...