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 ...

At the Hadoop Summit Conference this week, AT&T Vice President of Big Data Victor Nilson outlined the ways in which ...

Gerrymandering in the US is a serious issue. The Washington Post estimates that as a result of gerrymandering, the Democrats ...

Vodafone, the second largest telecommunications company in the world, has revealed that government agencies have installed wires in their system ...

This time next week, we will be in the throes of World Cup fever. As we speak, beers are being ...

In the Ted Talk below, Computer Scientist Jennifer Golbeck tells the story of how ones Facebook Likes show strong correlations ...

Since 2003, New York has been using the "311" service to field non-emergency calls and questions. In a thriving and ...

Concurrent, a company aiming to simplify data management on the Hadoop framework, has secured $10 million in funding. The round ...

Hadoop vendor Cloudera recently announced that it has acquired Gazzang, a startup specialising in encryption for big data environments, for ...

We met up with Miguel Arias, COO of Vizzuality at the Code_N contest in CeBIT, Hannover. Vizzuality, as the name ...

Yesterday Datatorrent's first product, DataTorrent RTS, became generally available. DataTorrent RTS is alleged to be the first platform on top ...

Hadoop is the leading database engine among companies today, and many have realised just what is possible through its ability ...

IBM has announced the winners of their Watson Mobile Developer Challenge, a competition which invited developers to design apps using ...

We met with Joe Eandi, the CEO & Co-founder of Vorstack, at the Finovate conference in San Jose. Vorstack is the ...

For the uninitiated, the Big Data landscape can be daunting. The vast proliferation of technologies in this competitive market mean ...

Press Release: Tibco Software Inc. today announced that CRN Magazine has named Jaspersoft to the “Big Data 100” list in the ...

Over the weekend, IBM opened their new SoftLayer data centre in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong centre is the first ...

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

Sean has been MD UK & Ireland and Regional Vice President for Northern Europe for Qlik since July 2009. He ...

Whether you like it or not, the gender gap is still a pressing social issue. We live in an age ...

Dennis Clark studied algebraic geometry and theoretical computer science at Harvard University. After a few years' service with distinction in ...

Netflix is now undoubtedly an entertainment behemoth. In the first quarter of 2014 alone, they streamed 6.5 billion hours of ...

It's a movie trope as old as cinema. A heated chase scene ends as the bad guy seamlessly blends into ...

Steve Durbin is an International business leader and sales & marketing professional. He has managed and grown start-ups to £multi million turnover ...

Bernard Marr – the ‘Big Data Guru’ - is one of the world’s most highly respected voices anywhere when it ...

Dr. Sahill Poddar is currently a Lead Marketplace Quant at Facebook in Hamburg. Prior to Facebook, Sahil worked for LiquidM, a ...

Himanshu Bari is the Director of Product Management for DataTorrent. His prior experience includes working a Senior Product Manager for ...

Philip Berliner has spent the last 15 years helping businesses communicate with their key audiences more effectively by facilitating their purchase ...

Dominic Ienco’s career has spanned over 30 years of combining a strong immersion in music and entertainment with corporate advisory ...