We have a great lineup of news and articles this week for all you data enthusiasts. Firstly, a new survey ...

The investment in Big Data technologies is set to continue according to a recent survey by Gartner. The key findings of ...

Taking their cues from the LAPD, the Seattle Police Department's latest crime data mining program, called SeaStat, will identify crime ...

Two US Senators from the Senate Finance Committee, Republican Chuck Grassley and Democrat Ron Wyden, have been advocating the need ...

Crowdfunded data enrichment platform CrowdFlower, scooped up $12.5 million in Series C financing earlier this week. The round was led ...

India's second-largest IT services provider, Infosys, have been busy recently. As well as extending their decade-long partnership with Microsoft and ...

Regardless of the outcome of today's Scottish Independence Referendum, today is a landmark event in Great British history. Within the ...

In a major announcement this week, IBM has released Watson Analytics, a service that will give businesses -- both large and ...

Splunk, provider of the leading software platform for real-time Operational Intelligence, today announced the speakers for .conf2014. The fifth annual ...

It was revealed yesterday that networking giant Cisco is in talks to acquire Private OpenStack cloud service innovator, Metacloud. With ...

Ushering in the next-generation ANSI SQL to Hadoop, MapR has added a developer pre-release of Apache Drill, coined Drill 0.5, ...

Globally, there were an estimated 44.4 million people with dementia in 2013. That number is set to 75.6 million by ...

Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), the leading platform for real-time Operational Intelligence, today announced that it has been rated ‘Big Data ...

Press Release: Qlik, a leader in data discovery, today introduced general availability of Qlik Sense, the first device-independent, self-service visualization ...

Press Release: Splunk, provider of the leading software platform for real-time Operational Intelligence, today announced that Trade Me, the leading ...

STIHL Inc. had a problem. A big problem. With 2013 sales of roughly $3.7 billion, STIHL might be the envy ...

Vivametric are aiming to take the digitisation of healthcare to a whole new level. They've developed an open source platform ...

For Amazon Web Services, with ballooning volumes of data come the need for data centres; and lots of them. Recently revealed through ...

Machine learning- to put it mildly- is an incredibly broad and varied field, with multitudes of applications. Thus, writing a ...

HubCare, provider of a holistic service system for sharing information across Social Service ecosystems, has launched a one of its ...

K Young has been CEO of Mortar Data since 2010. Mortar helps data scientists and data engineers spend 100% of ...

Darwin never actually said the following quote, but it’s truthy so I’ll use it: It is not the strongest of ...

Business intelligence and database analytics startup, RJMetrics has secured $16.5 million in Series B funding. The round was led by ...

With the increase in the usage of internet services, request for user information by Governments and courts has been steadily ...

Digital asset management innovator Front Porch Digital have inked a deal to be acquired by Oracle. The purchase will allow ...

Amazon is a big data giant, which is why I want to look at the company in my second post ...

Instaclustr, a startup that provides hosted and managed DataStax Enterprise and Apache Cassandra™ services, announced a first round investment offer ...

To infer the causal impact that a designed market intervention has exerted on an outcome metric over time has been ...

Last week, it was revealed that 1,500 pages of legal documents were unsealed by a special federal court of “once-secret ...

In a move to bolster its cloud service prowess, HP acquired open source cloud software startup Eucalyptus Systems last week. ...

This week we saw some interesting surveys around data privacy and big data. One study found that 85% of the ...

US-based collocation data center provider, 365 Data Centers, has secured $16 million in Series B funding while also obtained an ...

The Management consultant and global tech services provider, Accenture released the outcome of a study on Big Data and its ...

Born of the confluence of the Internet, wireless technologies and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), the Internet of Things might at some ...

Scientists at the Binghamton University have developed a predictive algorithm through analysing tweets to forecast an individual’s behaviour well in ...

Big Data World is about big data usage, management, analytics, protection and storage for all American enterprises. It is for ...

The Federal Trade Commission will host a public workshop entitled “Big Data: A Tool for Inclusion or Exclusion?” in Washington ...

Part of the field of predictive analytics has recently been thrust into the spotlight under a new name: Big Data. ...

Text mining innovators-in-the-making MonkeyLearn have finally opened their beta version for the public to sign up. The announcement came at ...

Worldwide privacy regulator, Global Privacy Enforcement Network, has revealed in a study that a major fraction of mobile apps in ...

Pioneers in machine learning for visual recognition and founders of facial recognition software developer Kriegman-Belhumeur Vision Technology (KBVT), Professor Peter ...

5 million gmail accounts stand compromised as a massive database of emails and passwords was published onto a Russian bitcoin ...

There’s huge market and business investment in the Big Idea that is known as Big Data. But missing from the ...

Whenever someone needs to cite an example of the staggering volume of data generation today, Twitter is called upon. It's ...

(Conflict (red) and cooperation (green) in Nigeria Jan-March 2014; source) For centuries, society has been captivated by the idea of ...

On October 1st and 2nd, industry leaders from across the globe will descend onto Berlin to share their thoughts, ideas and ...

This may not sound comforting, but it has to be said: your organization will be the target of future cyber ...

Tableau announced yesterday at its annual user conference that it is working on a new tablet-based product called Project Elastic. ...

Uber’s latest predictive model will deduce where you’re headed and it’ll be accurate 74% of the time. With the use ...

Metanautix, a Big Data analytics startup, made available its flagship product almost two years in the making, called Quest. Metanautix ...