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Big Data Can Keep People Safe
Big data can be used to help people recover from/avoid natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific region, reports Reuters.
Technological innovations - from unique digital identities for drought-hit farmers to use of data from drones and social media - can better predict increasingly complex disasters in the Asia-Pacific region and limit their impact on vulnerable people, the United Nations said in a report on Thursday
Read more...Data Needs to be Smarter, Not Bigger
According to Forbes, businesses need to focus less on the size of the data, and more on the quality of the data.
“Big Data.” Over 800 million results when you type the term into Google. It’s been an important marketing topic for some time. And it’s a significant challenge for CMOs
Read more...Data Analytics Isn't Done Growing
Industry experts believe we are just in the early stages of business’ use of data analytics, reports Business Because.
It’s less than a decade after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. A young Cypriot boy is sat in an elementary classroom waiting to learn
Read more...Army Recruits With Big Data
According to the Army Times, the Army is embracing the use of big data to help it recruit its latest batch of soldiers.
The Army’s new Chicago-based marketing team is prepping for a new push harnessing big data analytics and the digital space to find potential soldiers
Read more...Using Big Data with Bad Intent
According to Quartz, while Cambridge Analytica might be gone their methods of data manipulation and physiological profiling are not.
Cambridge Analytica, the most notorious practitioner of psychological profiling, has closed shop. Their methods aren’t about to die out so easily
Read more...Big Data Could Help Brick & Mortar Retailers
Big data could be the answer to brick and mortar retailers payers, reports Tech Republic.
As brick-and-mortar retailers continue to struggle against online competitors, some are seeking out services that leverage big data and personalization to increase e-commerce sales
Read more...Military Counting on JEDI
The military is counting on its new JEDI cloud computing program to bring all its disparate around the world together, reports Breaking Defense. The JEdI program will help the Defense Department make sense of data gathered from multiple sources.
The military needs the controversial JEDI cloud computing program to wage “all-domain warfighting,” especially “in the Pacific,” the three-star chief of the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center says
Read more...Company Takes Aim at Amazon
According to Search AWS, the new Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) is billing itself as the main challenger to Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce.
When it merged with fellow big data management vendor Hortonworks in January 2019, Cloudera Inc. gained a better chance to compete with cloud providers' Hadoop offerings -- setting up an AWS faceoff
Read more...Companies Find Ways to Use Big Data
According to CIO Review, as companies become more comfortable with big data, they are discovering more ways that it can make their companies more successful.
Companies have been deploying innovative methods to analyze and systematically extract useful data from various data sets. Access to organized data set provides a certain edge to an organization that can ensure long term returns
Read more...Nonprofits Can Use Big Data
Nonprofits and other Non-Governmental Organizations can use big data to solve humanitarian crisis, reports Datanami.
In addition to driving profitability and growth for business, big data holds the potential to improve people’s lives in more humanitarian ways
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