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Big Data Helps Highlight the Global Economy
According to Bloomberg, data imagery from satelittes and big data can help understand the changes to the global economy.
Zimbabwe’s economy has absorbed a series of crushing shocks over the past two decades, from land reform and hyperinflation in the 2000s to electricity shortages and a currency crisis in more recent years.
Read more...Turn Big Data into Something Useful
According to ZD Net, businesses are collecting data but they aren’t turning it into anything useful.
Businesses might be collecting more data than ever before but many firms still don't know what to do with it.
Read more...There are many practical uses for big data, reports Forbes.
Consumers are inundated every day with ads for products and services. The number of options is exhausting. What makes consumers stop and pay attention?
Read more...Using Big Data to Manage Chronic Illness
Health technology company Medopad has a successful round of funding for its project that hopes to use big data to manage chroni diseases, reports Venture Beat.
Medopad, a U.K.-based health technology startup that uses machine learning and big data analyses to help predict and manage chronic diseases, has raised $25 million in a series B round of funding led by Leaps by Bayer, the VC arm of German pharmaceutical giant Bayer, with participation from NWS Holdings and Healthbox, among other investors.
Read more...Can Big Data Cure Alzheimer's?
Digital health company Savonix hopes to use big data to find a cure for Alzheimer’s, reports IEEE Spectrum.
During the Framingham Heart Study, a long-term research study initiated in 1948 that collected health data from thousands of people, researchers discovered that high cholesterol and elevated blood pressure increase one’s risk of heart disease
Read more...Big Data in Banking
Financial institutes are taking an interest in big data, reports the Financial Brand.
Futurist Mike Walsh has good news and bad news for financial services executives leading and working in the Algorithmic Age.
Read more...NFL Uses Big Data
The NFL is using big data to find their new recruits, reports the Athletic.
Around the country, NFL hopefuls are putting their abilities to the test. With skills obtained through years of practice, contestants are being measured against each other, aiming to become part of the new blood entering the league.
Read more...Is Big Data Harming Science?
Big data may be causing trouble for science, reports Forbes.
You may have heard that Big Data is all the rage these days. Big Data this, Big Data that. Let's acquire as much information as possible and try to wrestle with it to gain insights into everything from stock market performance to consumer preferences to health outcomes.
Read more...Big Data Keeps Companies Secure
According to Inside Big Data, companies can protect themselves from threats with big data.
Big data has become almost ubiquitous in the world of business. From supply chain and inventory management to HR processes like hiring, big data has proven itself to be a valuable tool. However, big data can do much more than simply improve how a business conducts its operations; it can protect businesses from a huge variety of threats when used properly.
Read more...Company Acquires Funding to Grow its Big Data
Big data company Databricks has acquired a new round of funding, reports Silicon Angle.
Investors are upping their stakes in the big data company Databricks Inc., which today said it has bagged a massive $400 million round of funding.
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