Big Data

By Charlie Crocker, Unravel Data. Demystifying Service Offerinces from Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and Google Cloud Platform In the past five years, a shift in Cloud Vendor offerings has fundamentally changed how companies buy, deploy and run big data syst…

IMAGE: Dr. Mainland is a behavioral neuroscientist at the Monell Center. view more  Credit: Monell Center/Conrad Erb PHILADELPHIA (June 24, 2019) - New research from the Monell Center analyzed nearly 400,000 food reviews posted by Amazon customers to gain…

In todays digital age, big data is incorporated into many aspects our daily lives. Big data is essentially massive amounts of data that is used in order to drive strategic decisions. An example of how it is used in daily life is through using online maps such…

Berkeley Haas research finds there may be a dark side to the rise of “alternative data” in capital markets While Assoc. Prof. Panos Patatoukas was discussing Walmart in his Financial Information Analysis course last year, a student brought up the story of ho…

SK Hynix on Thursday introduced its 2nd generation enterprise-grade NVMe SSDs, which are based entirlely on the company's in-house SSD technology. The new drives offer 4 – 8 TB capacities depending on form-factor, and compared to their predecessors offer 30% …

Social Media Usage Statistics for 2019 Reveal Surprising ShiftsA look at the latest Edison Research and Triton Digital Social Habit study shows largely unchanged social media usage over the past four years, growth for Instagram among young Americans, a drop i…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. We are now over a decade into the third era of finTtech innovation, which grew out of the fallout from the 2008 global financial crisis and the advent of the smartphone. With record amounts of i…

The first-ever Skift Forum Asia, held on May 27 at the Equarius Hotel in Singapore, gathered nearly two dozen of the travel industrys top thinkers and thought leaders for a day-long discussion of the trends shaping the sector. And when it comes to meetings a…

The MNIST dataset of handwritten digits has been used as a standard machine learning benchmark for over two decades. It has a training set of 60,000 examples and a test set of 10,000 examples. This relatively small number of test images has however come under…

You may be wondering why Im starting with the Five Vs of Big Data before even explaining What Big Data is. But, trust me on this one, it will make more sense to explain what Big Data is after learning the Five Vs of Big Data. When we deal with…