Stop charging for Open Data
Stop charging for Open Data BY Eva van Steenbergen and Wendy Carrara on behalf of the European Data Portal Making public data available free of charge is still high on the agenda of governments across...
Category: Expert Articles
How Data from Plant Clinics is reducing crop losses in the developing world
How Data from Plant Clinics is reducing crop losses in the developing world By Andrea Powell, Chief Information Officer at CABI. When you feel unwell, you visit your doctor in his or her clinic, your symptoms are...
Accenture Technology Vision 2016
Accenture Technology Vision 2016 People First: The Primacy of People in a Digital Age OVERVIEW The primacy of people in the digital age Winners in the digital age know success comes from more than just...
Civility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Vital Speeches of the Day, January 2016, pp. 8-12 “Civility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” Address by STEVE LOHR, Author, Data-ism Delivered as part of the Civility in America series, Ferguson Library, Stamford,...
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...
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,...