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Data Surveillance: Because “Data is Where the Money Is”
Infamous felon Willie Sutton robbed his first bank in 1927 and went on to make illegitimate withdrawals of millions of dollars from some dozens of banks over two decades. Sutton preferred deception to...
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Big Data Plays Arresting Role in White Collar Crime
User-friendly analytics tools with graphical presentation tools plus big data solutions and the ability to more easily search and track fiscal anomalies give financial crime fighters a much stronger...
View ArticleCMU and Boeing Establish Aerospace Data Analytics Lab
Carnegie Mellon University and Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) said today they will establish the Boeing/Carnegie Mellon Aerospace Data Analytics Lab, a new academic research initiative that will leverage the...
View ArticleHow Uber Uses Big Data to Optimize Customer Experience
If you’ve ever used Uber, you’re aware of how ridiculously simple the process is. You press a button, a car shows up, you go for a ride, and you press another button to pay the driver. But there’s a...
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IBM Promotes Era of Cognitive Computing
Cognitive computing, not digitization, is the destination enterprises should target, and employees should not worry about mass layoffs but rather seek out new career opportunities, IBM CEO Ginni...
View ArticleAvoiding the Pitfalls of Bigger Data at the Human-Machine Interface
One of the widely held misconceptions in the field of big data analytics is that you can scale your way into insights by just adding more data. That may be true in some situations, but as 538 Editor in...
View ArticleSpace-Time Insight Releases Update to Visual Analytics Software Suite
In its latest iteration of its real-time visual analytics software suite, Space-Time Insight focused on simplifying the process for developers and enhancing the application's real-time Spark Streaming...
View ArticleIT Infrastructure Seen Straining Under Data Torrent
As they seek to develop and implement big data strategies, companies are increasingly nervous about the inability of their existing IT infrastructure to handle huge increases in data from emerging...
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Beware of Bias in Big Data, Feds Warn
A new report issued this week by the Federal Trade Commission applauds big data practitioners for helping to increase access to goods, services, healthcare, education, and employment. But the FTC also...
View ArticleLifting the Fog of Spark Adoption
If you’re stymied by the prospect of deploying Spark for the first time, Craig Lukasic, senior solution architect at Zaloni, offers tips and insights for overcoming some of the common misperceptions...
View ArticleSecurity, New Analytics Tools Top IoT To-Do List
Bulletproof security and new data analytics head a list of emerging Internet of Things technologies seen as unlocking the promise of the construct over the next several years. In an IoT forecast...
View ArticleVolatile Energy Sector Eyes ‘Information Fusion’
Given the current state of the global energy sector—including the nation's largest coal mining company filing for bankruptcy protection this week—no current operator can afford to drill a dry well....
View ArticleMapR Rolls Hadoop Migration ‘Easy Button’
MapR Technologies Inc. rolled out a migration service for its Hadoop distribution that targets what it says is growing demand for moving big data production installations to its converged data...
View ArticleScale-Out Platform Emerges With Foxconn Backing
Chinese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn is among the early investors in the enterprise infrastructure platform developer DriveScale Inc. Emerging from stealth mode this week, DriveScale Inc....
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An Insider’s Guide to Building a Cloud-based FinServ Big Data Analytics...
Even if you’ve never lived through a data analytics development project at a financial services organization, you know it’s a complicated undertaking. But you may not know just how multifaceted, how...
View ArticleEnterprises Embrace Machine Learning
Machine learning technology is poised to move from niche data analytics applications to mainstream enterprise big data campaigns over the next two years, a recent vendor survey suggests. SoftServe, a...
View ArticleIt’s 3 a.m. — Do You Know What Your Cluster’s Doing?
Performance challenges in Hadoop environments are par for the course as organizations attempt to capture the benefits of big data. The growing ecosystem of tools and applications (including new...
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9 Ways Retailers Are Using Big Data and Hadoop
The big data revolution is changing how business gets done in all industries. That includes the massive retail market, which drives $2.6 trillion in business in the U.S. and employs 42 million...
View ArticleThe Third Age of Data and the Unfolding Scale-out World
Welcome to the Third Age of Data, where an estimated 1 trillion sensors are embedded in a nearly limitless landscape of networked sources, from health monitoring devices to municipal water supplies....
View ArticleIntel Among Investors in Cognitive Computing Startup
The scaling of machine intelligence technology in the enterprise continues apace with another successful venture funding round reported by a cognitive computing startup. CognitiveScale of Austin,...
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