Big Data

Happy Friday, readers. By this point, you might have been reminded just how long the week can be in the wrong job. If you like the idea of being a Google Data Engineer or even a Cloud Architect instead, todays deal might interest you. The Google Cloud Platfo…

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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Our world has no shortage of entrepreneurs: As Entrepreneur's Grace Reader wrote, citing Kauffman startup index data, each month, about 550,000 ambitious souls launch a business. And all these en…

We all rely on maps to get where we’re going or investigate a neighborhood for potential brunch places, but the data we’re looking at is often old, vague, or both. Nexar, maker of dashcam apps and cameras, aims to put fresh and specific data on your map with …

The speed of data creation continues to climb. In May 2018, 2.5 quintillion (thats a 1 followed by 18 zeros) bytes of data were created every day. And the pace of data collection is set to continue this meteoric rise. By 2020, there are projected to be 200 bi…

For many R users, its obvious why youd want to use R with big data, but not so obvious how. In fact, many people (wrongly) believe that R just doesnt work very well for big data. In this article, Ill share three strategies for thinking about how to use big…

When Chinese internet companies seek initial public offerings, they tend to look to the United States where rules for profitability are less strict. SMZDM, an online shopping guide that few people outside China have heard of, has joined a small rank of intern…

"An American organization founded by tech giants Google and IBM is working with a company that is helping China's authoritarian government conduct mass surveillance against its citizens," the Intercept reports.The OpenPower Foundation -- a nonprofit led by Go…

By Andrea Felsted and Sarah HalzackA $69.90 polka dot dress from Zara has become the fashion hit of the summer. Despite little email or social media promotion from the chain, the flowy, universally flattering mid-length frock has become so ubiquitous that som…

Through a public record request, Motherboard has obtained a user manual that gives unprecedented insight into Palantir Gotham (Palantir's other services, Palantir Foundry, is an enterprise data platform), which is used by law enforcement agencies like the Nor…