Big Data

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…

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…

A drug used to treat enlarged prostate may also be able to slow the progression of Parkinson's disease.The surprising finding, published Sept. 16 online in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, is the result of an international collaboration involving resear…

TL;DR: The informative Mastering Tableau Certification Bundle is on sale for $25, down from $770. Forget about deep dives and synergy, data is the buzzword of 2019. While data informs most, if not all, major company decisions these days, raw data isn't exact…

As industry buzzwords, Big Data is one of those phrases that has become seemingly ubiquitous.  Everyone wants to be using big data to better their operation.  The maintenance department is no exception to this trend. Accordingly, maintenance teams are beginn…