Big Data for Social Good will encourage you to think critically about important social questions, such as education policy, upward income mobility, and racial disparities, and help you understand how ...

Big data is not a fad. We are just at the beginning of a revolution that will touch every business and every life on this planet. But loads of people are still treating the concept of big data as ...

Originally created at U.C. Berkeley’s AMPLab in 2009, Apache Spark is a “lightning-fast unified analytics engine” designed for large-scale data processing. It works with cluster computing platforms ...

In life science research, data comes in many forms - structured clinical trial tables, semi-structured instrument outputs, ...

DBTA recently hosted a webcast to examine the technology behind InfiniteGraph, the distributed and scalable graph database. Host Tom Wilson, president of DBTA and Unisphere Research, set the stage for ...

Computing devices and networks have been storing and processing data in increasingly large amounts for decades, but the rate of expansion of the 'digital universe' has accelerated massively in recent ...

The job of data scientist — the quintessential big data job, and the job that was just voted the best job in America for 2016 — is at risk. Data scientists have been called “unicorns” because finding ...

Trevir Nath has five years of experience as a financial writer working with various startups, financial services companies, and news publications. Trevor is an expert on business, personal finance, ...

This blog is about an industry area that has come to be called “Big Data.” The excitement around Big Data is huge; the mere fact that the term is capitalized implies a lot of respect. A number of ...