Big Data

8 Top Big Data Analytics Tools

Happy Friday, readers. By this point, you might have been reminded just how long the week can be in the wrong job. If you like the idea of being a Google Data Engineer or even a Cloud Architect instead, todays deal might interest you. The Google Cloud Platfo…

Walmart this morning unveiled a new “store of the future” and test grounds for emerging technologies, including A.I.-enabled cameras and interactive displays. The store, a working concept called the Intelligent Retail Lab — or “IRL” for short — operates out o…

Digital innovations and advances in AI have produced a range of novel talent identification and assessment tools. Many of these technologies promise to help organizations improve their ability to find the right person for the right job, and screen out the wro…

Sight Machine, which helps manufacturers analyze big data, raises $29.4M Series C led by LS Group (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Teaching big data to future scientists means having them think creatively about ways to harness the terabytes of information available to them. To that end, systems biologist Trey Ideker used his UC San Diego School of Medicine's Biological Networks and Biome…

The UK government will allow Huawei to be a supplier for some non-core parts of the country’s 5G networks, despite concerns that the involvement of the Chinese telecoms vendor could pose a risk to national security. But it will be excluded from core parts of …

Using machine learning and big data, scientists are discovering actionable insights at an unforeseen rate. Practically every industry is chomping at the bit for talent in the field. Thankfully, all it takes to enter this exciting arena is dedication. This ce…

With the advent of computational tools for quantitative measurement and metrics, and the development of machine learning based on the big data developed by those metrics, organizations, Amazon among them, started to transition through a period of what I refer…

As spring in the Northern Hemisphere arrives, farmers around the world are making decisions about what crops to plant and how to manage them. In the United States, farmers typically now have troves of data to help make these decisions—on how crops or livestoc…