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Is 2016 the Beginning of the End for Big Data?

Part of my job as managing editor of Datanami is to be a hype buster. Over the past five years, the amount of hoopla and hysteria over big data has reached epic proportions at times. That's why some in the industry are c Read more…

Three Unique Ways Machine Learning Is Being Used In the Real World

Machine learning has emerged as the key technology enabling predictive analytic uses cases upon big data. Accompanying that emergence is a set of common use cases, such as fraud detection in credit card processing and pr Read more…

Three Tips for Building a Big-Data Back-End for Your Mobile App

With more companies striving to become data-driven, many businesses are developing mobile applications and integrating big data analytics for their products or services. As companies expand, along with their user bases, Read more…

From Data Lakes to State Analytics

Earlier this year, I published my thoughts around a data lake use case that I called “The Union of the State.” Since this post published, the topic of data lakes and data analytics has become more widely debated than Read more…

5 Ways Big Geospatial Data Is Driving Analytics In the Real World

Amid the flood of data we collect and contend with on a daily basis, geospatial data occupies a unique place. Thanks to the networks of GPS satellites and cell towers and the emerging Internet of Things, we're able to tr Read more…

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AOL Ad Platform Adds Machine Learning

One-time online juggernaut AOL is expanding its digital advertising platform to incorporate analytics with the goal of marrying machine learning with ad design to gauge the success of targeted advertising across differen Read more…

Despite Startup Slowdown, VCs Keep Investing in Big Data

The number of software startups is down almost 50 percent since the start of the Great Recession, according to a new report from Evan's Data Corp. Despite the slowdown, anecodocal evidence points to venture capital firms Read more…

Salesforce Analytics Cloud: Now with More Hadoop

Salesforce customers who use the vendor's hosted Wave analytics platform now have an easier way to access data from their on-premise Hadoop clusters and cloud-based big data repositories. Today's launch of Salesforce Wav Read more…

Lavastorm Pushes Analytics Collaboration

An upgraded analytics engine rolled out this week by Lavastorm seeks to deliver greater transparency in how analytics are created as a way to repair what the company argues is a "disjointed" process of creating and shari Read more…

Survey: Health Trackers Emerge As IoT App

On the weighty matter of how best to use connected devices that will serve as the data-generating backbone of The Internet of Things (IoT), poll results released at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas indi Read more…

This Just In

BSC Uses Mobile Data to Capture Barcelona’s Mobility Patterns in Public-Private Partnership

May 6, 2021 |

May 6, 2021 — By 2050, cities are projected to absorb more than two-thirds of the growth in global population, with 68 percent of the world’s population living in urban areas. Read more…

Qlik Enhances Mobile Analytics Experience to Drive Informed Action and Enable Active Intelligence

May 4, 2021 |

PHILADELPHIA, May 4, 2021 — Qlik today announced an enhanced mobile analytics experience with Qlik Sense Mobile for SaaS, one of four key features being delivered in Q2 across Qlik’s SaaS data integration and analytics platform. Read more…

Ookla and Mapbox Announce Geospatial Network Connectivity Partnership

May 3, 2021 |

SEATTLE, May 3, 2021 — Ookla, the network intelligence company behind both Speedtest and Downdetector, and Mapbox, a premier mapping and location cloud platform for developers, are engaging in a global partnership to create network-aware mapping solutions. Read more…

Oracle Cloud Announces New Self-Service Analytics Capabilities

May 3, 2021 |

May 3, 2021 — Oracle Cloud announces a set of new capabilities in Oracle Analytics Cloud to provide all employees —not just data specialists— with easy-to-use, self-service analytics. Read more…

App Allows Citizen Scientists to Map Cicada Patterns for Brood X

May 3, 2021 |

CINCINNATI, May 3, 2021 — After their 17-year hiatus, billions of the Brood X bugs will emerge in early May from underground lairs in a natural cycle that cicadas have followed for thousands of years. Read more…

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