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 ...

Stephen Lahanas is the Vice President & IT Architect of Semantech Inc. His work is primarily focused on SOA, Data, ...

Joshua Ebner is the founder of Sharp Sight Labs, a company that teaches data science to individuals and helps companies ...

Michael Tambe is a Manager at LinkedIn, covering Business Operations and Analytics. He is a Data Driven Intrepreneur who uses ...

RJMetrics posted an article earlier this month on their blog revealing some interesting data that has emerged from Pinterest over ...

Big data landscape v 3.0 - Matt Turck (FirstMark) from Matt Turck (Image credit: Kevin Dooley)

Click the image to open the interactive version (via Penny Stocks Lab). From the 700 seconds (approx. 11 minutes) we ...

IBM announced earlier today that it has patented a technique that helps online and cloud-based businesses detect and eliminate fraud. ...

We've learnt a lot about Big Data this week. As well as more and more universities committing to training the ...

Big Data is permeating Australia. We recently reported on how Big Data is being used to improve efficiency in Australia's ...

Automatic translation of written text has become fairly ubiquitous and commonplace on the internet- you'd be hard pushed to find ...

According to a new report by Allied Market Research, the global market for Hadoop along with related hardware, software and ...

IBM announced earlier this week that it would be partnering with 28 new business schools and universities across the world ...

Gabriel Lowy is the Founder of Tech-Tonics Advisors, a leading consultancy providing strategic messaging and market research services to technology ...

Jeff Winsper is the founder and president of BlackInk. He has been dedicated to the advertising and marketing community for ...

With all of the discussion about Big Data these days, there is frequest reference to the 3 V’s that represent ...

Readers of our site are now well aware of big data’s implications on everything from political elections to forecasting movie success. Nevertheless, ...

Not content with owning some of the most efficient data centres on the planet, Google are now using machine learning ...

On Monday, the Technical University of Denmark announced the details of its new specialist programme in Data Science (Big Data). ...

Google’s forward-thinking and experimental Google X division has been working on self-driving cars for some time. However, at a conference ...

Danny Flamberg has been building brands and businesses for more than 25 years. In the US, Europe and South America, ...

Collecting personal information in the world of Big Data has its advantages; it allows companies to prevent fraud for instance, ...

IT services firm, Atos, is set to purchase its French counterpart Bull in an attempt to secure its place as ...