Big Data

Data analytics has rarely been more newsworthy. Throughout the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, governments and bodies such as the World Health Organization (WHO) have produced a stream of statistics and mathematical models. Businesses have run models to test post-lockdown scenarios, planners have looked at traffic flows and public transport journeys, and…

State regulators and consumer advocacy groups have scrutinized Allstate Corporation’s use of big data and personalized pricing in the way it calculates how much the company charges its private auto insurance customers. We tested whether Allstate’s personalized pricing algorithm treated customers differently based on non-risk factors by analyzing rare customer-level…

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Apache Hadoop is an open-source framework used to manage, store and process data for various big data applications running under clustered systems. It is written in Java with some native code in C and shell scripts. It uses a distributed file system (HDFS) and scale up from single servers to…

This article is about a new study that uses accumulated training data from Strava to predict your marathon time. That’s the payoff. But to get there, we need to start by digging into a concept called critical speed, which is a hot research topic in physiology these days. It’s a…

In December 1964, over a single evening session in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, John Coltrane and his quartet recorded the entirety of A Love Supreme. This jazz album is considered Coltrane’s masterpiece – the culmination of his spiritual awakening – and sold a million copies. What it represents is all…

This story is available exclusively on Business Insider Prime. Join BI Prime and start reading now. Data plays an increasingly important role in private equity. One titan of investing, Josh Harris, has already applied those lessons to sports.Now, Harris, the co-owner of the Sixers, Devils, and a London soccer club,…

Big data analytics are an essential business component deployed by modern healthcare organizations to collaborate and derive business value from disparate data. There are many clinical, financial and administrative opportunities to be had by provider organizations. But there are hurdles to getting there. Rob McDonald, executive vice president for platform at Virtru,…

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After seeing how hard it was to find time to focus on work in a sea of meetings while an engineer at RelateIQ and Salesforce, Matt Martin started Clockwise to help office workers manage their time more effectively. Clockwise is a smart calendar extension that works with GSuite's Google Calendar and…