Big Data Ethics
Big Data Ethics by Andrej Zwitter, University of Groningen – December 17, 2014 Big Data and associated phenomena, such as social media, have surpassed the capacity of the average consumer to judge the effects...
Category: Expert Articles
Spark Mllib: Machine Learning library for Analytics
Spark Mllib: Machine Learning library for Analytics by Dr. Christopher Burdorf, software engineer at NBC Universal. — December 11, 2014 The Spark cluster computing framework has an extensive machine library called Mllib which is...
Browsing Linked Data Forest
Browsing Linked Data Forest by Paolo Nesi, University of Florence. — December 2014 I started several years ago on parallel architectures for semantic computing, mainly for addressing back office problems behind large media companies...
Five FS Tech Predictions for 2015
Five FS Tech Predictions for 2015 by Rupert Brown, CTO Financial Services at MarkLogic, December 5, 2014. A financial services company will suffer a major tier-1 system outage due to a failed Outsourced Database Schema...
Critical Questions in the Governance of Health Care Big Data
Critical Questions in the Governance of Health Care Big Data by Richard Self, University of Derby.– 26 November 2014. Various reports claim that the use of Big Data Analytics in health care can improve efficiency...
“Big Data Security… Yeah, what about it?”
“Big Data Security… Yeah, what about it?” by Wilco van Ginkel, *Security, November 22, 2014 As with any new trend, technology or ‘anything disruptive’, security becomes a key question. Unfortunately, most of the time,...
Getting Up to Speed on Hadoop and Big Data
Getting Up to Speed on Hadoop and Big Data By Cynthia M. Saracco, Senior Solution Architect, IBM Silicon Valley Lab It’s a question I’ve often heard during my 4 years of working on Big...
Strata Spark Tsunami – Hadoop World, Part One
Strata Spark Tsunami – Hadoop World, Part One by Merv Adrian, Research VP, Information Management, Gartner, Inc. | October 31, 2014 | New York’s Javits Center is a cavernous triumph of form over function. Giant empty spaces...
NoSQL meets Industrial Mass Data
NoSQL meets Industrial Mass Data by Timo Klingenmeier, inmation GmbH & Co. KG October 31, 2014 I am writing this whitepaper at the near end of a two-year software product development cycle. It is...
The need for a data centric regulatory risk assessment framework
The need for a data centric regulatory risk assessment framework by Ramendra K. Sahoo, Director in PwC’s Advanced Risk Analytics. The abundance of data, usage of smart devices and the demand for near real-time financial...