In part 1 of this series we looked at the true business model of massive “Big Data” companies like Facebook and Google. They exchange “free” services for extremely detailed personal information on ...

You have a big data project. You understand the problem domain, you know what infrastructure to use, and maybe you’ve even decided on the framework you will use to process all that data, but one ...

Today MathWorks rolled out Release 2016b with new capabilities that simplify working with big data in MATLAB. Engineers and scientists can now more easily work with data too big to fit in memory.

The Apache Software Foundation’s stable of open-source projects continues to grow, with the addition of two more top-level projects in the past 24 hours. They include a Google Inc.-backed unified ...

The research identifies two primary models for this integration: the element model and the process model. The element model focuses on the five key aspects of evaluation: who, what, when, how, and why ...

In this special guest feature, Tom Gilley of wot.io talks about the role that the Internet of Things plays in the big data market. Tom Gilley is CTO of wot.io, an IoT data service exchange™ for ...

Programming model moves from managing thousands of low-level threads to working with high-level ‘tiles of data’ ...

Microsoft quietly made available this week a new family of R Server data-analytics products. Thanks to a tweet from Tero Alhonen, I found listings on MSDN for a family of new Microsoft R Server ...

The pace that companies generate and collect data shows no signs of slowing down. These businesses are then pouring all of this data into data lakes in the hopes of eventually getting some business ...

Demand for Computer Systems Analysts with big data expertise increased 89.9% in the last twelve months, and 85.40% for Computer and Information Research Scientists. Demand for Python programming ...