Big Data

Walton told a panel discussion at the City Food Lecture that adapting to big data was the most urgent change food manufactures need to make to adapt to the future for online retail, and he highlighted the need to leverage big data, predictive analysis and artificial intelligence in the FMCG…

Organizations of all sizes are embracing AI as a transformative technology to power their digital transformation journeys. Still the challenges around operationalizing AI at scale can still seem insurmountable, with a large number of projects failing. I’ve worked in big data and AI with several organizations and have seen some…

The Secretary for Innovation and Technology Alfred Sit on Sunday said authorities are working with universities to see how the government's contact-tracing app, LeaveHomeSafe, can automatically record people's entry and exit times at venues. He said there had now been more than 700,000 downloads of the app after the government…

The Korean Business Research Institute has revealed the brand reputation rankings for male idol groups for the month of February 2021. The rankings were determined through an analysis of the consumer participation, media coverage, interaction, and community awareness indexes of various male idol groups, using big data collected between January 11 and February…

Christine Heckart, CEO of Scalyr., and Tomer Weingarten, CEO of SentinelOne. Scalyr and SentinelOne This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. SentinelOne said Tuesday that it is acquiring data-analytics startup Scalyr for $155 million. CEO Tomer Weingarten says the deal will allow…

OpenOcean, a European VC which has tended to specialise in big data-oriented startups and deep tech, has reach the €92 million ($111.5 million) mark for its third main venture fund, and is aiming for a final close of €130 million by mid-way this year. LPs in the new fund include…

COVID-19 is not the first event to demonstrate the numbing effect of big data, but it reinforces the challenge of developing a true perspective of risk. A COVID-19 victim is buried in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe (Image: EPA/ Aaron Ufumeli) . EPA/AARON UFUMELIThis article was first published in the newsletter Managing Outcomes.…

Komodo Health, a company that is meshing big data, AI, and analytics to create a digital map of the U.S. health care system, announced that it quietly secured a $44 million cash injection last year in a series D round of funding led by Iconiq. The funding came in mid-2020,…

(China org) China's box office total for films screened during the New Year's Day holiday weekend reached nearly $200 million, a new record.According to Beacon, an Alibaba-developed box office tracker and big data platform, all films screened during the three-day holiday together grossed 1.29 billion yuan ($198 million), higher than…

Koreans' most fervent wish for the post-coronavirus period is for schools to reopen, big data shows. VAIV Company, which specializes in artificial intelligence and big data, analyzed 4.23 billion postings on Twitter, Instagram, blogs, and online communities from Jan. 1 until Dec. 20 last year to see the tracks of…