Big Data

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired BlueTalon, a data privacy and governance service that helps enterprises set policies for how their employees can access their data. The service then enforces those policies across most popular data environments a…

A profile of Ping An, China's second-largest insurer and biggest private-sector company by revenue, which is focusing on inventive uses of AI and big data (Clay Chandler/Fortune)

We’ve seen a big push in recent months to solve AI’s “big data problem.” And some interesting breakthroughs have begun to emerge that could make AI accessible to many more businesses and organizations. What is the big data problem? It’s the challenge of gett…

The Internet of Things (IoT) is fast evolving as a service and revenue generator in a hyper-connected universe. While IoT is already churning out an enormous volume of data every day, it is only a fraction of what is likely to come up in the next ten years. I…

By Admond Lee, Micron Technology / AI Time Journal / Tech in Asia One week ago, I asked this question on LinkedIn: What separates a good data scientist from a rockstar data scientist? Surprisingly, I got a huge response from many top data scientists from d…

Data is considered a businesss most valuable asset, so its understandable that organizations often strive to collect as much of it as they can. The more data you have, the more opportunity for insight, right? That mentality has spawned the era of big data whi…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin We live in a world ruled by data. One study predicts that by 2020, 1.7 MB of data will be created every second for every person on earth. In other words, its officially th…

In an effort to gain an elusive trading edge, some of the world's biggest hedge funds have been snapping up large swaths of alternative data from Fitbits, Rokus, Teslas and employment websites like Glassdoor. Bloomberg reports: Spotting trends and patterns in…

Facebook is set to pay $5 billion to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this week as fine for users' privacy violations in the Cambridge Analytica data scandal involving 87 million users. The FTC has also fined credit bureau Equifax $575-$700 million for …

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