Accessibility has been the flavour of the week, with several big names making announcements which will shake up the analytics ...

IBM Big Data and Analytics recently announced that they had helped a wines and spirits company, Pernod Ricard Asia, improve ...

Yesterday, Microsoft announced Azure ML, a new machine learning service on the cloud-based Azure platform. The service will allow users ...

This article was first posted by Carla Gentry here. Carla is currently owner and data scientist at Analytical Solution.She has worked ...

The growth of Airbnb has received a lot of attention over the past few years, especially since it’s $10 billion ...

Data Science for Social Good, a data science fellowship personally bankrollled Google chief Eric Schmidt, has commenced for its second ...

According to a recent Reuters article, MasterCard believes that the selling of data to retailers, banks and governments will be ...

Intel is spearheading projects to improve food and water security in California. California is a particularly apt place to start; ...

Follow @DataconomyMedia We met Sammy Shreibati, the Co-Founder and CTO of SaveUp, at the Finovate conference in San Jose. Prior ...

The hype around the term "big data" can be pernicious. The ubiquity of the term, coupled with a lack of ...

Avansera, a Finnish consumer analytics startup, just won the 3rd place in the EU Idea "Smart Spaces" Challenge, a series ...

See our pick of the week's findings below. TOP DATACONOMY ARTICLES Understanding Big Data: Infrastructure In this edition, we’ll be ...

OTTO Wins BT Retail Week Technology Award with Blue Yonder June 13th, 2014 – OTTO, the largest online retailer for ...

SiSense, a business intelligence startup based in Tel Aviv, announced yesterday that it has raised $30 million in Series C ...

Combing through piles of CVs is considered an essential part of a recruiter's work, but big data might be about ...

We recently reported on how Netflix is using big data algorithms to power its recommendation system; now, a Netflix blog ...

MapR, a leading provider of Apache™ Hadoop®, has been awarded a number of awards honouring important companies in the in ...

With the recent furore among cab drivers about the growing prominence of Uber in London, Paris, Milan, Madrid and Berlin, ...

In an article last week, we looked at whether data analytics could help us predict the winner of the world ...

IBM recently announced that Matrimony.com, one of India's leading marriage matchmaking conglomerates, has begun using IBM Big Data and Analytics ...

Jim Smith, Executive VP and Head of the digital channels group at Wells Fargo, has been discussing recent innovations within ...

The military and intelligence community in the US have been publicly discussing how they're integrating Big Data analytics to increase ...

Press release: TIBCO Software Inc. today announced that its Jaspersoft® group, creating the ”Intelligence Inside” applications and business processes, has ...

Doug Laney is a Research VP for Gartner Research, where he covers business analytics solutions and projects, big data use ...

 Five Labs profile of Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer We live in era of self-archiving. Of course, this has its advantages; ...

Currently, Brian is Sr. Vice President & General Manager of the TIBCO Analytics Product Group within TIBCO Software. Formerly, he ...

Oracle announced yesterday that it has launched its in-memory option for its Database 12c, which will be available within 30 ...

Tailored retail experiences are one of the most well-known applications of big data. We have premium streaming sites that know ...

A new challenge to combat Alzheimer’s disease was announced last week by the Global CEO Initiative on Alzheimer’s Disease (CEOi), ...

Emil Eifrem is CEO of Neo Technology and co-founder of the Neo4j project. Before founding Neo, he was the CTO ...

In an attempt similar to Google Flu Trends, The Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention will be working with ...

Representatives from the Punjab Information Technology Board have spoken about their unlikely secret weapon in the fight against dengue fever; ...

Intel announced recently that it will be tackling two global challenges with Big Data -- one project looks at irrigation ...

HP have unveiled a batch of big data analytics programmes targeted towards the business intelligence market. Uniting themes across the ...

Uwe Weiss is CEO of Blue Yonder, a leading provider of predictive analytics. He has more than 20 years of ...

The on-going Big Data media hype stirs up a lot of passionate voices. There are naysayers ("it is nothing new"), doomsayers ("it will ...

Bill has a Ph.D. (1978) in electrical engineering/parallel computing from Rice University, and he has worked at Bell Labs research, ...

The use of statistical language tools like R, SAS and SPSS is growing at unprecedented rates. Forums are full of ...

Yiftach Shoolman is CTO & Co-Founder at Redis Labs, the largest commercial supporter of Redis with more than 70,000 databases ...

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

Paul Forrest has some twenty-five years experience of helping businesses to solve complex business problems, deliver their transformation goals and ...

Dev Lakhani has a background in Software Engineering and Computational Statistics and is a founder of Batch Insights, a Big ...

Sudhanshu Ahuja is the founder of Ideatory Pte. Ltd., who organize open-innovation challenges to help companies discover, attract and hire ...

As Chief Marketing Officer at Moogsoft, Rob is responsible for global outbound marketing, sales support, and product management. Rob’s 25-year ...

Kickstarter is using big data to simplify its approval policy for new campaigns. As well as shortening its list of ...

A new study led by Duke University, has been looking into the ways we can use Big Data in the ...

Only a decade ago, to speak of Africa and technology would have seemed nonsensical. Today, it is part of a ...

In addition to being Narrative Science’s Chief Scientist, Kris Hammond is a professor of Computer Science and Journalism at Northwestern ...

In order to avoid security chaos, Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) need to approach big data through a data-centric approach, ...

This week we looked at Big Data's influence around the world: How it is being used by scientists attempting to predict ...