How to choose a predictive algorithm.
How to choose a predictive algorithm. By MICHAEL BOWLES. You have to build a system for making predictions (which customers are going to leave, what ad will get clicked, which claims are fraudulent) based on...
Category: Expert Articles
Generations of Health IT
By FRANK MOSS, Co-founder and Chairman, Twine Health Inc. and Matter.io Inc. – Posted originally in the TWINE HEALTH web site.- In my November 9, 2011 op-ed in the New York Times entitled Our High-Tech Health-Care Future I...
How leading Operational DBMSs rank popularity wise?
How leading Operational DBMSs rank popularity wise? By Michael Waclawiczek It’s an interesting exercise actually to map out how the leading Operational DBMSs as identified in the Gartner MQ[1] (published in Oct 2015) rank on...
Can Columnar Database Systems Help Mathematical Analytics?
Can Columnar Database Systems Help Mathematical Analytics? by Carlos Ordonez, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston It is now folklore that row DBMSs will dominate transaction processing and columnar DBMS will be prerred...
Digital Transformation in European governments
Digital Transformation in European governments By Dinand Tinholt , Vice President – Global EU Lead, Capgemini Consulting Eva van Steenbergen, Consultant, Capgemini Consulting. Nowadays, a substantial amount of online information has initially been collected...
RIP Big Data
RIP Big Data By Carl Olofson, Research Vice President, Data Management Software Research, IDC When the design of computers and networks reached a critical state in terms of memory size, processor capacity, and speed of inter-system communication,...
Have we closed the “digital divide”, or is it just getting wider?
Have we closed the “digital divide”, or is it just getting wider? Andrea Powell, CIO, CABI With the ubiquity of mobile phones in the developing world driving the global growth in mobile broadband subscriptions, you...
Time for Harmonization across the Data Landscape
Time for Harmonization across the Data Landscape Peter Wittenburg (RDA Europe Director) The trends towards more and more complex data and a growing number of computational solutions in almost all scientific disciplines are well...
Distributed Graph Partitioning Made Feasible
Distributed Graph Partitioning Made Feasible Authors: Fatemeh Rahimian (fatemeh at sics.se) and Amir H. Payberah (amir at sics.se) Affiliation: SICS Swedish ICT (www.sics.se) Our world is increasingly connected, and this is changing our lives...
Semantics vs Separation of Concerns across the IT Architecture Disciplines
Semantics vs Separation of Concerns across the IT Architecture Disciplines BY Rupert D.E. Brown – CTO:- Financial Services MarkLogic Corporation Where are we today? If you go to any IT conference in the...