Big Data

Postrevolutionary big data: Promoting the general welfare

There are many ways that big data is being utilized in marketing. We have talked extensively about the use of big data in digital marketing, but it can very useful in traditional marketing strategies as well. One study from Forbes found that 55% of companies…

More posts by this contributor Technological progress has created a situation of severe tension and incompatibility between the right to privacy and the extensive data pooling on which the digital economy is based. This development requires new thinking abou…

Handling big data is one of the most in-demand skills of 2019. Oracle is one of the most common tools for this task, which is why were spotlighting a very significant price drop on a comprehensive learning kit. The Oracle Professional Certification Training …

As LinkedIn announces the next stage of its own ambitions in the world of recruitment by bringing in more big data insights, another one of the startups indirectly chipping away at its position among knowledge workers by providing a way of hiring and building…

Beijing-based Deepexi, which uses large data sets and AI to provide supply chain, manufacturing, and marketing services, announces $35M Series A (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia)

Big data has been billed as being the future of business for quite some time. However, the future is now. Analysts have found that the market for big data jobs increased 23% between 2014 and 2019. The market for Hadoop jobs increased 58% in that timeframe. T…

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…