Big Data

For many years, the use of location data emanating from our mobile devices has been viewed in the context of privacy and civil liberties trade-offs. Many people have agreed to trade data showing where we are and where we’ve been in exchange for the convenience of finding the nearest gas…

Published: April 14, 2020 at 1:42 p.m. ET ‘We can do better than this,’ Splunk’s Doug Merritt says Splunk Inc. CEO Doug Merritt castigated the federal government for its data-free response to COVID-19. Splunk Inc. The federal government’s tardy response and relatively data-free approach to the coronavirus pandemic has one…

Photo: GettyAs others have pointed out, Taiwan is something of a coronavirus “success story.” Despite being a stone’s throw from Mainland China, the island’s managed to keep the virus’s spread under wraps, and its body count low, and has been no stranger to spearheading new, (arguably invasive) tech to keep…

As we struggle to get a grip on exactly how COVID-19 makes us ill and what we can do about it, researchers have created over 50,000 articles. That's a lot of information! So, how do you make sense of it all? Verizon Media is doing it by using Vespa. This…

In the age of big data and analytics, business success is now measured in the knowledge you have that the competition does not. For a startup in the B2B market, that means there’s a reasonably steep hill to climb right from the beginning. Here is a startup guide to creating…

Aims to limit recessionary impacts, help global pandemic response First data was the new oil, then Google said data is more like sunlight. A flood of organisations proposing big data insight into the COVID-19 response would have anyone believe it is the new medicine. One of the more noteworthy initiatives…

The drawbacks of Europe’s rapidly aging population have become even more visible over the last month as the global COVID-19 pandemic has swept through the region. In some places, the sudden burden of disease has led even to the rationing of access to intensive care, creating nightmares for health providers…

Big data analysis is the next innovative technique that the telecommunications (telecom) sector is deploying. Big data will tame the telecommunications abundance of data, and enable harvesting information “gold” from existing data storage. We know that Big data includes paper as well as innovating new ways of collecting numerous touch-points…

France’s health minister Olivier Véran and digital minister Cédric O have officially announced that the French government is working on a smartphone app to slow the spread of COVID-19. The government is putting a stamp of approval on the Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT) project but remains cautious about what…

Big data is changing the nature of file transfer technology. It is both creating new challenges and new opportunities.The good news is that big data is leading to new file sharing technology, which is making it easier to solve certain file transfer problems. On the other hand, it is increasing…