Big Data is less about the data itself and more about what you do with the data. The application of statistics and statistical principles on the data helps you extract the information it contains.

When Darren Jarman kicked an astounding five goals in the last quarter of the 1997 AFL Grand Final, I was 8 years old.

Ahead of the opening of the UN Statistical Commission on Tuesday next week, a seminar on “Big Data for Policy, Development and Official Statistics” will be held in New York on 22 February. The event ...

“Data” is the watchword of the progressive gov tech professional today. If we can put a number to a problem — quantify it, catalog it, assault it with an avalanche of analytics — all will be well.

Kudos to the New York Racing Association and New York Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association for launching an initiative that encourages today's analytical minds—and the computer tools they use—to find ...

They call it “big data” for a reason–it’s really, really big. But getting your head wrapped around the growth of information digitization is not easy. That’s why we carefully curated these 10 ...

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 ...