According to Fed Tech Magazine, federal governments can leverage big data to accomplish their missions more effectively.

Big Data has the power to transform how government agencies accomplish their missions by making them more effective and efficient.

Financial services companies are finally seeing the value in big data, reports TechRepublic.

Financial services companies are and continue to be focused on maintaining a majority of their mission-critical systems on premises, where they have direct control. They also want direct control to quickly recover systems if a failure occurs. It's also financial institutions that have the reputation of being transaction-driven and not customer-centric.

According to TechCrunch, start-up Harbr is set to launch a secure big data exchange platform. 

Organizations today are sitting on mountains of data that they amass and use in their own businesses, but many are also looking to share those troves with other parties to expand their prospects — a model that comes with challenges (privacy and data protection being two key ones); and, these days (due to COVID-19 and the push to more digital transformation), with urgency; but also big rewards if you can pull it off well.

Big data predicted the election outcome before election day, reports the Hill

At every moment of our lives, we are contributing to a never-ending trail of data, our digital footprint.