Big Data

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…

Big data is a very important part of any digital marketing strategy. There are a number of reasons that machine learning, data analytics and Hadoop technology are changing SEO: Machine learning is becoming more widely used in search engine algorithms. SEOs t…

B.J. Moore has a high bar when it comes to technology. Moore worked at Microsoft for 26 years before joining West Coast health system Providence St. Joseph Health as its chief information officer in January. Over the past five years, the health system has …

Thanks to the rise of companies like Amazon and Netflix, consumers expect flawless digital experiences at the click of a mouse. Forty percent of consumers are turned off by poorly written content. About 30 percent get frustrated with bad design or awkward in…

Although tech companies like Google and Apple have dabbled in medical tech, they have mostly been limited to things like wearables or storing data in apps. At times, they even work on experimental devices like smart contact lenses. Now Google is putting anoth…

Big data is changing our lives in many ways. Some of the ways data impacts us are much more subtle than others. One example is with digital calendars. A number of new data algorithms are being used to make digital calendars more effective. Big data is so imp…

Big data is changing the future of gaming. Dataikus Pierre Gutierrez presented a compelling analysis of the role of data analytics in gaming in his piece A Flood Of Gaming Analytics Data With No End In Sight. Some of the ways that data analytics has changed …

The term "Big Data" has lost its relevance. The fact remains, though: every dataset is becoming a big data set, whether its owners and users know (and understand) that or not. Big data isn't just something that happens to other people or giant companies like …