Category: Expert Articles

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...

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...

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...