Big Data

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…

Clinically significant sex-based differences in left ventricular ejection fraction related to mortality emerged in a real-world, observational, big data study from Australia, Simon Stewart, PhD, reported at the European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure Discoveries virtual meeting. This analysis from the ongoing National Echocardiography Database of Australia (NEDA) included 499,153…

REUTERS/2018 The United Kingdom Competition and Markets Authority, the UKs antitrust watchdog, has begun an investigation into Facebook's acquisition of Giphy. The deal is valued at around $400 million, and under scrutiny for possibly reducing competition in the United Kingdom. Facebook is already facing antitrust concerns, and criticism for Mark…

With AI models rendered useless by the pandemic, CIOs and data jocks are scurrying to make sense of a changed world. chombosan / Getty Images How do you model a world turned upside down? That’s the existential challenge thrust upon those in business intelligence and data science, two intertwined spheres…

Using an artificial intelligence and big data-driven approach, a team of planetary researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and ETH Zurich has analyzed an archive of more than 2 million high-resolution images and created the global map of 136,610 lunar rockfall events. Heat maps of lunar…