Big Data

Kevin Hughes needed volunteers. It was 1994, and the breast-cancer surgeon was starting a randomized, controlled trial at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He and his colleagues wanted to test the efficacy of a treatment regimen commonly followed by p…

Kevin Hughes needed volunteers. It was 1994, and the breast-cancer surgeon was starting a randomized, controlled trial at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He and his colleagues wanted to test the efficacy of a treatment regimen commonly followed by p…

If you've worked in any high-performing engineering lab, you already know about MATLAB. This computing environment and the language that powers it is perfectly suited to science and math, with an interface that makes it easy to express and visualize complex a…

Contrary to hype around big data, the explosion of available information amid eroding trust in media makes it harder, not easier, to achieve consensus on truth (William Davies/The Guardian)

By Vegard Flovik, Lead Data Scientist at Axbit AS. Big data is suddenly everywhere. From scarcity and difficulty to find data (and information), we now have a deluge of data. In recent years, the amount of available data has been growing at an exponential pa…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin When most data scientists talk about challenges with rising data demands, you assume this only affects large enterprises. However, 95% of businesses need to manage unstruc…

Samsung announced two new PCIe Gen4-based SSDs, the PM1733, and PM1735. These new SSDs are incredibly fast, and take advantage of three new innovations, including fail-in-place (FIP) technology that ensures an SDD can "never die." While the drive technically …

Human beings create a lot of data in the digital agewhether it's through everyday items like social media posts, emails and Google searches, or more complex information about health, finances and scientific findings. The International Data Corp. reported tha…

The slippery slope of data has never been more crucial, former President Barack Obama warned in a far-ranging fireside chat at a tech conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. We have such an information glut now. So much of it is opinion wrapped up as fact,…

Nobel-prizewinning physicist Richard Feynman challenged researchers to make computing less binary.Credit: Kevin Fleming/Corbis via Getty In 1981, physicist Richard Feynman famously talked about the problem of simulating physics with computers. This posed a c…