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Using Machine Learning to Analyze Data
When analyzing their big data, businesses should be using machine learning from the beginning of the project to the end, reports Silicon Angle.
Why do so many companies still struggle to build a smooth-running pipeline from data to insights? They invest in heavily hyped machine-learning algorithms to analyze data and make business predictions
Read more...Big Data Helps Big Oil
Company has found a way to harness big data to keep oil rigs humming, reports World Oil.
Diamond Offshore Drilling announced the launch of its Stack-View service, a first-of-its-kind solution that applies 24/7 real-time monitoring, data visualization, and advanced analytics to identify trends and detect anomalies in BOP performance across its rig fleet.
Read more...Big Data Market Could Impact Semiconductors
According to Semi Engineering, the flux in the big data market could have repercussions in the semiconductor industry.
The big data market is in a state of upheaval as companies begin shifting their data strategies from “nothing” or “everything” in the cloud to a strategic mix, squeezing out middle-market players and changing what gets shared, how that data is used, and how best to secure it
Read more...The King of Silicon Valley
A new move, the Great Hack, tells how big data managed to become the king of Silicon Valley.
Silicon Valley has a reputation for being a sexy place to work, even though the day-to-day products of the tech industry are not, by any conventional standards, sexy.
Read more...Event Stream Processing is the Next Big Thing
The tides have turned on Hadoop, reports Information Age. It is now seen as an obsolete tool and the ‘next big thing’ is event stream processing.
Big data is probably one of the most misused words of the last decade. It was widely promoted, discussed and spread by business managers, technical experts, and experienced academics
Read more...OFX Joins Financial Data Exchange to Accelerate Financial Data Sharing Standards
In an important step toward establishing a single interoperable industry standard for financial data sharing, the Open Financial Exchange (OFX) will join the Financial Data Exchange (FDX) effective immediately. With this milestone, the industry continues to align around the FDX standards, which spell out how consumer-permissioned financial data is securely shared, and clarifies the security and authentication protocol requirements for financial institutions and fintechs.
Read more...Data from Mobile Phones Can Stop Spread of Disease
According to the BBC, health authorities in Bangladesh have found that they can use mobile phone data to stop the spread of malaria.
Every year, malaria kills more than 400,000 people globally - most of them children.
Menpaw Mro lifted his young daughter on to his shoulders and began the long journey to the nearest hospital, in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, first on foot, then by boat and finally in a small motorised rickshaw
Read more...Big Data in Oil & Gas Industry
The oil and gas industry has fully embraced using big data in all aspects of its business, reports Rig Zone.
Conventional logic would dictate that retailers and service firms might be among the most nervous adopters of the concept of storing their data off-site on partners’ third-party infrastructure, given the number of high profile breaches we have seen over the years.
Read more...Mapping Cells with Big Data
According to ZD Net, a pharma company is using big data to map cells in the body.
Whenever machine learning is applied to a given field of industry, defining the objective is one of the most salient questions. Just what are you trying to find out?
Read more...Big Data Generation
Our world is increasingly ruled by big data, reports Forbes. In fact, predictions have 1.7MB data will be created per second by every living human.
We live in a world ruled by data. One study predicts that by 2020, 1.7 MB of data will be created every second for every person on earth. In other words, it’s officially the age of Big Data, and it’s only going to become even more expansive in the years to come.
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