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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Rise of the Techtarian: Seeing Through the Big Data PRISM

Stan Stalnaker, June 17, 2013 Comments

Tipping points have a way of sneaking up on us. One reason they catch us by surprise is because they represent a confluence of inputs that until a certain moment appeared disconnected, but change the landscape in such a way that their individuality later seems silly -- and their merged impact overwhelming.

Such is the case with big data and its uses. Recent revelations about PRISM, (the U.S. g...

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Big Data PRISM

Hadoop: How It Became Big Data's Lynchpin, And Where It's Going Next

Nick Heath, June 17, 2013 Comments

The creator of the Hadoop platform, Doug Cutting, is surprised Hadoop didn't have to battle it out with more competitors in its early years but thinks it's now too late for a competitor to take on the platform.

Cutting began creating the distributed computing platform in the mid-2000s – based on two papers written by Google about technologies powering its search engine Google File System...

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Hadoop - Big Data's Lynchpin

Could Big Data Spur the Development of the Semantic Web?

Mark van Rijmenam, June 11, 2013 Comments

The semantic web, or web 3.0, is often quoted as the next phase of the Internet. Led by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the objective is to convert the current web of unstructured and semi-structured data into a “web of data”. According to W3C, with the semantic web it will be possible to easily share and re-use data across application, community and enterprise boundaries.

The...

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The Semantic Web

Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Human Behavior

Joe Wolverton, June 11, 2013 Comments

In light of recent revelations of wholesale spying on American citizens by the National Security Agency (NSA), significant media attention has focused not only on how much data is being collected and under what authority it was being collected in the first place, but on the potential uses of that crucial private information by the agents of the federal surveillance state.

In a timely book on t...

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Predict Human Behavior

Nice From Far, But Far From Nice: Big Data Can Help Retail Bring Everyone ‘Up Close’

Grant Shippey, May 21, 2013 Comments

It’s all about perspective. There are things, that looked at from afar seem perfect, but walk a little closer and the imperfections become glaringly obvious.

Most large-scale businesses operate under two distinct perspectives or paradigms. An “up-close” perspective, which considers how the business looks at the individual store front level and its day-to-day functioning ...

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Retail Big Data

5 keys to Getting Big Data Under Control

Paul McCloskey, May 21, 2013 Comments

Agencies will face a lot of challenges with forthcoming big data projects, but one of them will not be generating enough data. In fact, consulting firm Gartner Inc. recently reported that enterprise data growth rates now average 40 percent to 60 percent annually.

At the Commerce Department — parent agency for some of the government’s biggest data producers, including the Natio...

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Big Data Control

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Rise of the Techtarian

Comments Stan Stalnaker, June 17, 2013

Big Data's Lynchpin

Comments Nick Heath, June 17, 2013

The Semantic Web

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Predict Human Behavior

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