The availability of big data analytical tools for use in cardiovascular practice and research will grow rapidly Big data analytical applications, such as predictive models for patient risk and ...

We are fortunate to live in an exciting time where multiple technological leaps are occurring. Specifically, I am thinking of the mobile industry transition from 4G to 5G, and the cross-industry IT ...

One implication of ubiquitous sensing as evidenced by the rapid growth of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) is the explosive increase in data being collected. This data comes from myriad sources: According ...

“You can’t handle the truth.” We all remember Jack Nicholson’s iconic words in A Few Good Men as a seminal moment in pop culture. Yet, that statement has a lot of relevance for companies and their ...

Big data held the title of "The Next Big Thing" for quite a while. Tech publications and mainstream media alike showered attention on it and we were all promised that if only we could treat the data ...

This paper, compiled by Prof. Huadong Guo and his team, discusses the potential and utility of Big Earth Data through a number of case studies to support the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

One of the critical decisions facing companies embarking on big data projects is which database to use, and often that decision swings between SQL and NoSQL. SQL has the impressive track record, the ...

Gone are the days when marketing decisions were guided by intuition and experience. Important marketing decisions are now determined by big data. This refers to the study and application of big, ...

Businesses are struggling with the rapidly increasing volume, speed and variety of information being generated today – what's come to be known as big data. Companies are seeking technologies that not ...

Data storage is inexpensive—you can store a terabyte of data on a disk costing $50 or less. But reading that disk end-to-end could take six hours, according to Matei Zaharia, an assistant ...

Big data refers to the massive volume of information that cannot be easily processed or analyzed using traditional methods, such as using standard databases and software. Big data comes from many ...