Monsanto buys weather big data company for $930M
It turns out Monsanto needs a little help with its mission to create genetically modified, chemically enhanced supercrops that are resistant to everything the planet could throw at them.
The Big Ag giant is purchasing big data company The Climate Corporation ...
In-demand big data skills: a mix of old and new
In fall of 2012, MIT's Sloan Management School issued a report discussing the differences between big and regular data, and also differences in skills that the two demanded.
Organizations that utilize big data differ from those with traditional data practices in ...
10 ways to prevent loss of big data enthusiasm
Companies are finding that it's a lot more challenging to implement big data than they thought it would be! And some are losing enthusiasm.
What are ten things you can do to prevent a loss of momentum in your big data ...
Get A Return On Your Big Data Investments
The hunger for collecting information into what is commonly called Big Data has become a goal in itself, far removed from the original reasons for retaining transaction data from a variety of business processes. Enterprises have worked hard to collect, ...
Cloud computing and the rise of big data
Cloud computing democratizes big data – any enterprise can now work with unstructured data at a huge scale.
At first glance, it isn’t obvious why the unstructured data methods of the new big data world are even necessary. Even if new ...
Data Visualization-Drawing Actionable Big Data Insights
“So much data, so little time.” That’s how a lot of companies feel about the explosion of Big Data. After all, the thought of capturing, analyzing and somehow getting insights from mountains of disparate data can be overwhelming. And not ...
Scientists must spearhead ethical use of big data
The recent revelation that the National Security Agency collects the personal data of United States citizens, allies and enemies alike has broken the traditional erning the bond between science and society.
Most breakthrough technologies have dual uses. Think of atomic energy ...
Fedora Linux 20 Gears Up to Be a Big Data Server
The open source Fedora Linux distribution is out this week with the first alpha development build of its Fedora 20 release, along with a long list of proposed changes.
One of the key additions set to land in Fedora 20 is ...
Big-Data as Disease Detective
IBM announced earlier today that some of its research scientists are now collaborating with Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, San Francisco, to combat illness and infectious diseases in real-time with smarter data tools for public health.
The focus ...
Big data getting big for India Inc
In India, big data is giving rise to markedly improved decision making and is having a significant impact on companies competitive differentiation and ability to avert risk, said a study.
Almost 91% of Indian businesses surveyed reported that better uses of ...