Companies are bringing big data to the real estate industry, reports Fast Company. 

It’s easy to track prices of some things: Drive down any major street and you’ll only have to pass a few gas stations to know roughly how much gasoline costs in your area. 

Google has a new set of tools that can collect some big data that collect data using differential privacy, reports CNet. 

Data about human beings can tell you countless helpful things. How crowded is a hospital waiting room on a typical Saturday? What's the traffic like for your morning commute? But collecting all this data comes with the risk of exposing private information about individuals.

According to Inside Big Data, companies can use big data to help narrow down their employee applicant pool. 

Today, big data is changing the nature of virtually every industry. Recruitment and hiring processes are no exception. Big data has had a significant impact on the way candidates look for jobs, as well as on how employers make hiring decisions. Here are some of the ways in which big data has changed the job market